Page 12 (2/2)
"You’re free to use the locker facilities to wash off the oil and get dressed," she said "There will be a cleaning crew couest, so please don’t linger When you’re dressed, stop at the accounting office to pay your bill for the rooes" The frost in her voice, the cold detacher, made him want to howl Ask questions "Why are you with him?"
"I’m not with anyone, Gideon I think you’ve de in you that convinced me to cross the line It was a mistake, as it always is" When she drew in a breath, her nostrils flaring, he saw her consider hiaze had been appraising earlier, as if she were caressing him with everya far different type of evaluation "Chantal was right You don’t belong in a place like Atlantis This is for people who have the courage to reach for so more than what they know" She turned as Madelyn entered froht, holding out a robe The Mistress slid her aral as a queen Madelyn placed another robe on a hook, apparently for hih the hallways to the locker area, or put his street clothes over his oily skin He didn’t give a rat’s ass The shirt was ruined anyway
Madelyn drew the sable hair out of the robe’s collar, let it fall Despite hier
Now that he was free, histhe possibilities He was the one who had come here initially He hadn’t been lured It was possible that shethe truth, that who she spent her ti to do with his presence here It didn’t make him any less wary, because she obviously kneho and what he was A vas here, but for whatever reason, the vae of it
Nevertheless, probably proving how stupid he was, he couldn’t stop the ache in his lower belly at what he’d just denied hiet over it It didn’t really ht?
"What’s your naht to ask me any questions ‘Mistress’ was aze could freeze tree trunks, let alone his shriveled libido "Good-bye, Gideon
Don’t come back here Since you are deteret what you want"
"What the hell do you think that is?"
He hadn’t meant to ask the sudden, desperate question He expected the saiven hi the answer Of course, the way he’d asked, heelse, but she surprised hilanced back over her shoulder, her face re the fight you have allowed to consume your soul"
6
IT was surreal What had happened in the past few , because in a sis and beat it out of there, his surroundings no longer known or trusted, infected by a vampire presence Instead, he went to the da, and he didn’t have many clothes to his naht, after all
When he reached the shower area, which he was relieved to find was vacant except for himself, an Atlantis staff T-shirt had been left for him Black and in his size, with a vellum card perched atop it with his assu it up, he brought it to his nose
New T-shirt, straight-frousted with himself, he balled it in his fist Of course it wouldn’t sht it, and why should he want her scent, anyway?
She was a daroupie
He’d run into a few of them, but they were always marked Vampires were a secretive lot, and they usually didn’t permit anyone in their inner circle asn’t blood-linked to the to anyone, she was likely carrying one or two marks from the bastard
He stepped into the shower, let the spray rain down on hiht First to wash off blood, noash offHell, he didn’t knohat to call it Another form of damnation, olden gate before his mind had fucked it all up But he couldn’t sto his balls or any other part of his anatoainst that mark, wherehe’d suckled her Or fucked her Of course, if he hadn’t smelled the evidence of male seed, he’d say it could be a female vamp She was hard-core, and she had issues with men That flicker in her eyes when he’d been above her had told him She didn’t trust a le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>