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The resulting heat in her loins exceeded the fire running through her veins She dug her nails into his back at the next twist fro with him to feel more of that incredible friction A sweet dizziness filled her as he drew rip she couldn’t break - and didn’t want to
"Spade," she whispered, her eyes fluttering, the treetops and stars blinking in and out of her vision
He tore his mouth from her throat, somehow crouched several feet froht and that luscious feel of his body pressing into hers left her confused She reached out to hirowl stop her
"Stay away"
His eyes were blazing green while blood dripped from his ers It throbbed with the sa wrong?"
He started toward her, and then flung himself backward so hard, he hit a tree It tilted with an ohtly "Run away froht now, or I will drink you to death"
The feral hunger in his gaze finally penetrated through her haze of dizziness and lust Shethe wetness between her fingers Spade’s eyes were transfixed there, hisand sharp, his face looked ered away Soon she was back on the path, heading in what she hoped was the same direction they’d entered from The hotel was on the next street, Spade had said
A crashing noise directed her gaze up It was dark, but she could h up fro her? A sick fear lurched in her sto the sensual war her?
"Faster," his un dizziness and ran for all she orth, bursting through the sanized as where they’d entered fro more branches snap above her Then she ran tohat she hoped was the street Spade had pointed to earlier
A dash across the street revealed the sign she’d been looking for The Plaza Denise fulad she’d stuck her rooht, and ducked inside the ornate doors She kept her head down, holding her hair over the bloodstained spot on her neck, and made it into the elevators without any of the e the police The early hour probably helped; the few people Denise passed looked sleepy when she glanced at them
By the time the elevator opened on her floor, that previous, heated need was gone and she was disgusted with herself She’d practically begged Spade to take her right there in the snow Was that why he’d been thrown into a feeding frenzy? Had her lust-crazed reaction pushed hi with her, responding like some sort nympho from a vampire bite? Yes, it had been well over a year since she’d had sex, but that didn’t explain the intensity of her reaction
Denise was still lashing herself when she closed the door to her rooainst it in weariness - and then wrinkled her nose What was that smell?
Raum rounded the corner of the bedroom "Hello"
The demon was at the door before she could yank it back open, the sulfur scent e her
Raum smiled "Alone at last"
Spade used the last of his willpower to make sure Denise lass doors, he couldn’t hold back the effects of her blood anyed his reality with hallucinations and the present with the past
Spade fell froround Naked branches waved in the wind as he and Crispin rode past, following the grooves the carriageat thehis horse faster
He rolled on the ground, hearing his own guttural moans as he tried to push the ain
He got to his feet and began to run The treesinto skeletons that bent down and swiped hi into the Argonne forest froritting his teeth He ran faster, stue rocks he somehow hadn’t seen that jutted out of the earth This wasn’t real It wasn’t real
Or was it? What if he was back there? What if it wasn’t too late to save her?
"Giselda," he shouted "I’!"
Crispin spotted the wheel first, turned on its side off the lip of the road For a e had suffered a mishap, that’s why Giselda had been delayed But then he smelled it The scent of blood and death
Spade bounded off his horse, streaking toward the carriage without even touching the ground, not caring that he was flying for the first ti hiround "Don’t, oing to his knife when Crispin started toward hirowled, whirling and running in the direction where Giselda’s scent was the strongest - and where other harsh, vile scents intertwined with hers
He didn’t pause to check on the foote of the woods A scrap ofto the thorny bush just beyond the foot scents, seized with terror as he saw the multiple footprints in the mud and snow She’d run, but she’d been chased
The torn-up spot of earth he ca to a stop It stank of sweat, blood, terror, and lust Rage exploded in him as he saw pieces of a wo ier impression of a body pressed into the earth, blood and other stains at the center of it
Spade swung around, following the trailing scent of blood until he ca in hihtened as he looked down the steep incline
A redheaded woman was crumpled at the bottom, her dress half ripped off, her bruised body twisted andrelief It wasn’t Giselda; her hair was blond Perhaps this poor lass had been traveling with her -
Realization crashed through hi hi out of him when he turned the woed face stared back at him, her hair red from the blood soaked into it, her throat sliced open to the bone
"You lied towith the sort of disapproval one would use on a child "You toldaround in the snoith, calling by that na that Spade would soically appear But there was only the deain, wearing an Ozzy Osborne T-shirt over his jeans
"How did you findthe on them in the park, at least
Raum cocked a brow "You didn’t think I’d let you loose without a leash, did you? These" - he grasped her arloves - "have many uses I would have called on you before, but the vaone Got a bit too excited drinking from you, hmm?"