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Too late
Nathan felt a sharp length of ice impale his torso from behind
The blade withdrew and he wheeled around on his heel, astonished to find the dark-haired Atlantean standing there Blood was all over the soldier, but not a single bullet wound reunfire and the fall His glea, stained scarlet from the hole that now bled from Nathan’s back and abdomen
The wound was bad, but it wouldn’t kill Nathan It did, however, severely piss hiroup and retaliate, Jordana’s terrified cry rent the air
"Oh, ed from behind Zael
The dark-haired Atlantean’s hand shot out and grabbed hold of her, htly around her ar around his wrist sian to throw off powerful, fiery light
He was going to take her away Back to their realaze shot to Nathan
No He couldn’t lose her
"Goddamn it, no!" Nathan shouted
He reached for her other hand and held on tight He couldn’t bear to let her go
And at that sae through Jordana’s fingers The energy was irowled at the soldier who captured her The poithin her expanded, growing swiftly In a blinding flash, it erupted out of her as she roared the couard flew off her as if torn away by an unseen force Nathan too was staggered by the sudden blast of light and power that surged through Jordana’s hands
He let go, only because he noticed that the dark-haired rabbed for it, at the sauard while his reflexes were dazed from Jordana’s defensive strike
But now the second of the Atlantean soldiers had coh Nathan had broken the male’s neck, the copper-haired iot to his feet He swiveled his head, popping his spinal colun around at the same time The dark-haired i it around as the second guard charged at hi the immortal’s head off in one sure, lethal blow
Behind hi intothe floor with a wet, final thud
"Nathan!" Jordana flew across the carnage toward hi her at the same time, Jordana raced to Nathan’s side and threw her ar, but still standing He was alive
He had saved her--he’d likely saved Zael as well--and nothing could have kept Jordana fro, breathing warainst his chest She clung to hiainst hers, whole and hale "I’ve never been so scared, Nathan When that soldier ran his blade through you, I thought he’d killed you--"
"Shh," he soothed, his pal her back as he dropped a kiss on top of her bent head He held her close, his pulse dru "I’ll heal soon enough I’ve survived worse than this before"
He lifted her chin, both his fingers and his gaze tender on her "It would’ve taken a hell of a lot more than that blade to stop ive a fuck if the Atlantean queen and her entire army think they have any claih me first"
He lowered his head and kissed her Not a tentative kiss but a fierce, possessive one
Jordanathe taste of hiy that had poured through her veins during the battle stirred again, but with a different power, as Nathan’s
Would she always respond so easily to his touch, his kiss?
Or now that her Atlantean genetics were awakening, becoreater need?
She hoped she’d have the chance to find that out
She hoped she’d have an entire future ahead of her with Nathan to find that out
But right now, his injury needed tending, and across the roo over the corpses of the two Atlantean warriors
Nathan broke contact on a low ht Jordana under his arave a sober nod "Once it’s determined these men have failed and are lost to her, Selene will send outout ives even less" Zael’s gaze slid to Jordana "The best place to elude her is in the colony"
"Or through a blood bond," Jordana pointed out
"If you remain in the mortal world, that’s all that would protect you But only if Selene’s legion doesn’t find you first"
"And she has
"True," Zael acknowledged with a level glance, but his grave tone stopped short of encourage can be as certain as the asylum the colony can provide It’s hidden, known only by a small few outside the realm I am one of only a handful trusted with its location, aside from the exiles who live there in seclusion under the colony’s protection"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>