“See?” he whispered. “There are so very many rules I’ve yet to break.”
“You wouldn’t risk getting caught,” Victoria whispered. Those flutterbies were back again and they were playing a nauseating game of tag in her belly.
The smile disappeared from his handsome face, and instead he gazed down at her in all seriousness. “This needn’t be so hard, Victoria.” He shook his head. “It’s a Game, that’s all. Just a simple Game between you and me.”
“I don’t like the stakes,” she said.
He smiled again, showing teeth. “I do.”
The silence between them stretched as Victoria tried to think of something to say. There seemed to be no way to win this argument, no way to get out of the corner that Black had backed her into.
At last, Victor seemed to come to some sort of decision. His expression hardened with a firm resolve. He stepped back. At once, Victoria felt as though she could breathe normally again.
“I’ll give you twenty-four hours, Victoria. Come to me in that time and I will allow you to set half the rules.”
“I thought you said that time was a commodity you just happened to possess,” Victoria hissed at him. Now that he’d put space between them, the fury she’d felt hours ago was building up once more.
“Oh, it is.”
She watched as he turned to face the clock on the wall, raised one arm, and with a release of power that felt ice cold, he telekinetically moved the long hand forward ten spaces.
“Patience, however, is a virtue of which,” he pinned her to the spot with a blatantly hungry expression, “I am in short supply.”
He finished with the clock and strode to the room’s exit. He spoke to her as he walked. “One day, Victoria. You have one day – and then the Game will begin, whether you’re ready or not.”
What the hell kind of choice is that? Victoria thought frantically as she stared after him.
He laughed and turned to face her one last time, his tall, dark form outlined by the light of the exit door. “At the moment, it’s yours,” he said. Then he opened the door, stepped through it, and was gone.
- A Sinister Game, by Heather Killough-Walden (available now)
Heather Killough-Walden Reading List
The Lost Angels series:
Always Angel (eBook-only introductory novella)
Avenger's Angel
Messenger's Angel
Death's Angel
Warrior's Angel (release date TBA)
Samael (release date TBA)
The October Trilogy:
Sam I Am
Secretly Sam
Suddenly Sam (October, 2013)
Neverland Trilogy:
Forever Neverland
Beyond Neverland (release date TBA)
Never Neverland (release date TBA)
The Big Bad Wolf series:
The Heat (no longer available separately - purchase in the Big Bad Wolf Romance Compilation)
The Strip (no longer available separately - purchase in the Big Bad Wolf Romance Compilation)
The Spell
The Hunt
The Big Bad Wolf Romance Compilation (all four books together, in proper chronological order)
The Kings - A Big Bad Wolf spinoff series:
The Vampire King
The Phantom King
The Warlock King
The Goblin King
(future The Kings books TBA; at least 13 total)
The Chosen Soul Trilogy:
The Chosen Soul
Drake of Tanith
Queen of Abaddon (release date TBA; 2013)
Redeemer (stand-alone)
Hell Bent (stand-alone)
Vampire, Vampire (stand-alone)
A Sinister Game (stand-alone)
The Third Kiss series:
Dorian's Dream (November, 2013)
Aleksei's Dream (release date TBA)
(future The Third Kiss books TBA; open-ended series)
Note: The Lost Angels series (not including Always Angel) is available in print and eBook format. All other HKW books are currently eBook-only.
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