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Getting back to the motel, I grabbed my files and spread them out on the desk. We'd need to maximize our time once Kaius got here. With the murders escalating in number and in intensity, we needed to act as quickly as possible.I wasn't about to let another woman get snatched off the street only to be met by an untimely death all because we were too busy taking our sweet time.Putting my hands on my hips, I glanced up in the mirror over the desk. Zaine was seated on the end of the bed, the mattress bowing under him. He had taken his shirt off and tossed it somewhere while the top button of his pants had come undone and flared apart in order to show the deep-v right below his stomach.I matched his heated gaze and forced myself to turn around to look at him."Come here." He held out a hand.Compelled, I followed the order. He pulled me down into his lap, an arm coming around my waist to secure me against him. I tucked my upper half against his warm chest,
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She snapped her fingers, silencing the shifters behind her. My shoulders stiffened. I didn't want to be left alone with her, especially with those shifters seemingly at her beck and call. Even if it was simply to talk—about what I couldn't even fathom."Absolutely not." Zaine stepped in front of me again, Kaius coming around to herd me over while staying in front of the shifter still on the floor. "What is going on, Mother? Why are you here? Where's Father?""This is a matter between women. Step aside."The way she said it… there was a threat there, buried underneath. Over what, was the real question. Peering around Zaine, I could see she'd moved in from the entrance, stepping over a large pool of blood that had been left by one of the bodies nearest her.She held her arms around herself in a relaxed hold, confidence and ease rolling off of her. There was no concern for what was in front of her at all. As if she'd seen this kind of scene a million times before. And
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 18 : Conclusions
I was knocked to the ground with such force my back skidded along the club floor, hauling me back a good ten feet until all momentum was lost, and I stopped. My palms stung from where my magic had collected, the density of it giving me a light burn over the surface of my skin.The snapping of jaws and teeth had me propelling my body off the ground, just in time to see the shifters run into the club and attack Kaius. He battered them away expertly, keeping them from advancing any further toward me as they fought his hold. He was strong, a lot more than I'd been expecting.One of the shifters unhinged their jaw, clamping down on Kaius' shoulder to hold him in place. He quickly grabbed the back of the shifter's scruff, ripping him off of his arm before prying the jaw back and cracking it apart.The sound of breaking bone had me wincing and covering my ears. It made my teeth clench, that sound reverberating inside my skull. When I looked up, I dodged to the left; a shi
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 19 : Time Forward
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