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Great Just great Bad enough that he had to pretend to be nice Now he had to do it while being called Josh
Wraith stayed cocked and ready as they hoofed it toward the hotel He wasn’t sure as up with the creepy Byzam dude, but he kneithout a doubt that the ood Maybe he was after Serena’s charypt and wanted whatever she was after Either way, his presence was a thorn in Wraith’s side The last thing he needed was interference
Wraith’s gaze returned to Serena’s lithe, graceful body Her brsts were smaller than he liked, but when it came down to it, he didn’t have to like her He was after one thing Still, he’d be stuck with her for a few hours at least, so he ht as well observe And it wasn’t as if she was hard on the eyes Far from it
She was short, maybe five-feet-five, avy blond hair she’d pulled into a high ponytail that stuck through the hole in her beige baseball cap Long eyelashes frah cheekbones added definition to a slightly rounded face, and her generous ht when she s at my hotel?" she asked as they halted at the corner of a busy street He loved the natural, sultry rasp in her voice thatsound as if she’d added "in bed" to the end of every sentence
"Yup Flew in this afternoon I’ht?" She had to yell over the sound of a honking horn
He nodded, recalling what he’d extracted froinally froia for the last six months" He had no idea why Josh had moved there, so he hoped she didn’t ask
"I love Italy" In bed Her srew dreamy, and he really wished she wouldn’t do that, because it made him want to kiss her
Which was crazy, because he’d never kissed a female before, not in his hundred years of life But suddenly he wanted to put his mouth on Serena’s and see what all the fuss was about
She watched hi with curiosity, and he wondered if she felt the static crackle of awareness between theaze slid to his mouth and she swayed, he knew she did
In an almost dreamlike state, he drew closer to her His vampire senses picked up her sweet scent, the sound of her pulse rate increasing His oent erratic and off the charts as he leaned in Anticipation le, but out of nowhere a foul scent like burning flesh hijacked the air
He started, shaken out of his insanity Oh, he was going to kiss her--Tayla had given him a da was part of seduction--but pouncing on Serena out in the open was probably not the way to go
"Do you s in on the odor There, behind a truck parked on an incline between two closed-up shops… eyes Red, glowing eyes
"I don’t s--"
"Stay here" He peeled off toward the threat, his body revved for battle, adrenaline puh his veins
The creature behind the truck growled, a chilling sound that made the hair on the back of Wraith’s neck stand up This was a khnive, a su until the spell controlling it timed out
"What is it?"
Wraith paused at Serena’s voice She was right behind him "I told you to stay where you were"
"Last time I looked, you weren’t my boss"
So she was sexy and spirited An ad combination
"Stay" He sprinted toward the creature It screeched and skittered down the street toward a drainage hole If it escaped, it would report to its master that it had found Serena "Oh, no you don’t"
Wraith grabbed the creature, which looked like a mastiff-sized skinned opossu razor-sharp teeth
"Bad monster" Wraith flipped it with a flick of his wrist It landed aardly on its side with a snap of bone, but the injury didn’t stop it The de, fire-eyed abomination--
A backpack s backward and clawing at its eye, which had been iain, and it struck out at her with venom-laced claws, but sohts blinded Wraith A swerving vehicle bore down on the off curbs
"Serena!" Wraith caught her around the waist and threw them both into an empty vendor’s cart Brakes and tires squealed The co behind, and the creature leaped into the back of the pickup as it rolled forward, gaining rip, darted toward the truck, and vaulted nimbly into the back with the demon