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The sound of a throat clearing brought them apart, but Eidolon kept her hand in his as Shade and Ge extreood stuff, didn’t I?" His gaze settled on Eidolon’s bond glyph on his neck and then slid to Tayla’s arm, deeply etched with Eidolon’s deruys" Gerin lit her up, made Tayla draw a sharp breath
"You look soat her sister "Are your parents safe? Where have you guys been?"
"They’re fine I sent the for you two" Gelanced around "Where’s Wraith? Kynan?"
Tayla and Eidolon exchanged glances during the long, tense silence that fell between the four of therin slid off Gem’s face, and Shade went taut
Eidolon scrubbed a hand over his face, relishing the burn of his pali claims Wraith is involved with the Ghouls"
"He’s not," Shade said fiercely
"I know" And Eidolonpretty damned hard tolocal Guardians into thinking Aegis leaders are in on it, too"
"Hell’s fking bells"
"That’s exactly what I was thinking" Well, he was thinking a lotnext to hi his, and all he wanted was to be alone with her They could deal with Wraith later
Right now, his entire world was Tayla, and he wanted to h the zoo at a dead run Tayla, Eidolon, and Shade wereone last sweep of the park to erous ones destroyed, as well as to capture any reerous deue Guardians
When Tay told her what happened with Lori and Kynan, Ge Ky, and as she one, she prayed he was okay That his bitch of a wife hadn’t injured hier hadn’t done worse
When she reached the old tiger habitat, she ca there, shoulders sagging, head bowed His pain rolled off hiular intervals, nine-point-oh-uish scale
"Kynan?"
He didn’t appear to have heard her, but she knew he had, and she approached carefully
"She’s gone," he said, when she eased up next to him "I can’t find her Even if I could"
She didn’t think She si break inside hi the and she was holding hih she knew he hated her for what she was, she didn’t care
For now, the man she loved was in her arlad
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Theyup with E and Tayla, had then sent theet patched up from his encounter with the slayers who’d tried to kill him Shade had reone MIA, but he’d found Tayla’s sister standing near an old fountain, watching as the man she’d called Kynan walked away She’d seemed upset, but Shade had no idea why, and really, he didn’t care Touchy-feely-h Harrowgates to the hospital, where E and Tayla were tangled together on the couch in the staff lounge Talk about touchy-feely-loith some sort of after-bond bliss, and her new dermoire stood out starkly on the creamy skin of her left ar; ained a linked circle around the throat He had no idea when they’d co ritual, but it had obviously happened at the zoo--what, so delad He still wasn’t sure he trusted the Aegi, but she’d saved E froiven Shade his brother back
And speaking of brothers
"Has Wraith shown up?" Shade asked, grabbing a Coke froe
E shook his head "He was prettyhis cell, but"
"Yeah" Wraith had probably sucked soround If Shade focused, he’d be able to feel his younger brother’s energy, but Wraith would feel it, too, and he’d dig in deeper "I hope he’s okay"
The very idea that so to take someone apart Too bad they hadn’t found any Guardians ere still breathing Shade wanted answers, and he wanted them now
He’d never been a patient sort
"Hey," Tayla said, extracting herself fro, huh?"
Her attempt to steer the conversation away from the black hole that was their brother couldn’t have been rinned "How about now?"
"Hold on" Shade moved to the couch "Can I have your hand?"
E tensed, probably so had released, but Shade couldn’t be sure Mated Seminus demons were so rare that he’d never met one and had no idea how they were supposed to react when theirhow horny incubi were, a protective instinct probably wasn’t a bad idea Then again, the bonding ly have sex with anyone else
Tayla reached out, and he took her palm in his Warh her bloodstream to her womb This was his specialty, the ability to er ovulation in order to ensure conception, though he was not yet fertile His heart rate spiked as he probed, his instincts firing up because even though she was E’sBut she hadn’t quickened with his brother’s seed