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"Do you intend to kill e She straightened "If I have to"
"What are you waiting for?"
"More info" She deliberately flipped her sain her center of balance by engaging in a fa to tell him about the wind and the way it spoke to her For all she knew, it could be a major weakness he’d kno to exploit "You’redifferent Not like the others"
"What, exactly, constitutes an ‘other’?"
"Vampires"
"Vampires," he repeated
"Yes Sharp teeth, claws, bloodsuckers Evil"
"How long have you been killing vampires?"
"Ten years"
A long stretch of silence "Why?"
"Enough questions," she shot back "What are you?"
"I can hear your heart racing," he taunted softly "You’re smart to be wary You don’t knohat I am or what I can do And you’ve lost the element of surprise Now I knohat you’re capable of"
Lindsay se He was in a volatile ainst her senses like the lash of tropical rain "You have no idea what I’ toward him, she repeated, "What Are You?"
He turned his attention ahead "When we get to the house, I’ll show you"
Lindsay stared at hiotten the drop on herher coh to put her on full alert He disarerous he was
Whatever else she discovered about Adrian Mitchell, it was irrefutable that he beguiled And that was ht reveal A danificent profile Even after receiving the entirety of his attention for the last few hours, she was still arrested by the strength of his jawline and the aristocratic line of his nose And she loved the shape of his lips, which were so beautifully etched they were a work of art in their own right
Mental i across her skin, whispering heated, erotic words and curving in full smiles seized her heart in a fist In her mind’s eye there was an entire repertoire of inti they were al her nipples and spurring a slow, hot trickle between her legs
Tearing her gaze away, she looked out theand fought to regulate her erratic breathing Fuck What rong with her? She was a , pissed off, turned on, jitteryhillside properties idening the higher they clihts disappeared, the evening sky sing thehts She ree and her father knehere she was, but those safeguards didn’t cal, He’s not huate bisecting the road, cutting off further public access She surveyed their iranite slab on the shoulder that was sandblasted with the words ANGELS’ POINT A frisson of unease slid down Lindsay’s spine
A burly guard stepped out of a gatehouse He looked at Adrian’s driver--Elijah--and nodded, then retreated back inside to open the gate The Maybach drove another half ht was this high above the light pollution of the city, Lindsay had no trouble seeing the hohts to the extent that the evening was lit like daylight It would be impossible for anyone to approach the house fro seen
The residence scaled the side of the cliff in three tiers, each with its oraparound deck Distressed wood siding, rock terraces, and exposed wooden beams made the house see about architecture, but Angels’ Point screa about Adrian did
The car rolled to a stop, and her door was opened by yet another guard Lindsay was about to step out when Adrian appeared before her with his hand extended She couldn’t help but notice his speed, which he apparently felt he no longer needed to hide, but shethe pretense of being hu to praise hiravel driveway She was atterandeur of the house when e wolf prowled by
Gasping in surprise and instinctive trepidation, Lindsay flattened herself against the side of the car Adrian caught her by the elbows, the shield of his body filling her with indefinable comfort and relief The beast sniffed a tire, then lifted its ence Her startled senses kicked into overdrive, prepping her body for defending herself
"You won’t need that," Adrianher realize the readiness hich she held her knife
Elijah rounded the hood of the car A lol rumbled from his chest as he stared at the wolf The beast stepped back, lowering its gaze
More wolves appeared An entire pack, or perhaps two Lindsay didn’t kno many wolves made up a pack, but there were at least a dozen of thearound the driveway Their size was i Each one looked as if it ate an entire cow every day
Lightning streaked across the sky, perfectly e around Adrian
Jesus She exhaled in a rush
The otherworldliness of both the place and the man beside herher hair but carrying neither a warning nor reassurance She was on her own and feeling like she’d fallen down the rabbit hole--confused, fascinated, stoned
Adrian gestured toward the house "Coh a double-door entrance, crossing over a slate foyer to reach aroom An enormous fireplace dominated one wall; Lindsay was fairly certain her Prius would easily fit inside it
"Do you like it?" he asked, releasing her and watching her carefully, as if her opinion hly masculine space, decorated in shades of brown and taupe, with splashes of a burnt red that rereen materials had been liberally used--carved woods, thick cotton linens, dried grasses Directly opposite the front door was a wall of s overlooking the shts twinkled with multihued fire, but the metropolis seemed worlds away fro would be an understatement It suited Adrian so well For all his urbanity, she sensed an earthy connection to nature in hi close to her side and faced hial nod "You’ll be staying here indefinitely"