“That creature doesn’t know the first thing about love.” Alexander spoke softly, with barely any inflection. “Kill it, and you’ll see.”
Mia hugged him hard. “You need to let her go.”
He glanced at Mia, sharp and hard, sucking in a breath. With a convulsive movement, he brought the knife up then buried it in the creature’s chest and twisted it. The creature squealed, turning gray, then black, then disintegrating into ashes. A cloud of black, foul-smelling smoke billowed upward.
Wyatt slumped to the ground, tired and defeated and careless of the snow. Alexander sat next to him, pulling Mia onto his lap so that all of them were touching shoulders. The first trinity stayed around them, guarding them.
“It’s not what you’ll become after the bonding that you should fear,” Alexander said. He pointed to the smoke. “You won’t become a monster like that. And you won’t become a monster like me.”
Wyatt flinched. “You’re not—”
“You called us monsters. After what happened to Julie—the real Julie—you were entitled to. But the bonding won’t make you one of us. The real monsters are out there.” Alexander lifted his chin to indicate the shadows out among the trees. “Those are what you should fear the most. The Grimoré running amok among humans.”
“Blackmail,” Wyatt said hoarsely.
Alexander shook his head. “Can’t you see the bonding is a doorway to the light? You’ve been wandering in the dark for so long you can’t recognize happiness when it kicks you in the ass?”
Wyatt blinked.
Mia smiled. “You said it yourself, Wyatt. You were so filled with anger most of the time you shake with it. Don’t you want to live a different way?”
Wyatt still seemed dazed.
Alexander made a frustrated sound. He leaned around Mia, took Wyatt’s face in his hands and kissed him. It was no light peck despite their audience and Mia licked her lips, her body responding to the sight of Alexander and Wyatt locked in a deep, thorough kiss.
Wyatt moaned softly as Alexander let him go. Alexander kissed Mia, his tongue sweeping across hers and she could taste Wyatt too. She sighed.
Alexander rested a hand on each of their shoulders. “I love you both. I want you both. Even without the bonding I would have worked to find a way to make sure you stayed in my life.”
“Okay,” Wyatt whispered. “No more anger. I get it. I’m still scared spitless but this time I get it. Let’s go back and get this done.”
Zachariah dropped to a crouch next to them. “Sorry to eavesdrop but vampire hearing and all…plus, you don’t have time. Have you guys bonded physically? Alexander?”
“Yes,” Alexander said flatly.
“We’ll have to risk it,” Zack said. “Finish the bonding here. While we guard you. I don’t like those shadows. If we try to move you from here, they might try something fancy.”
Mia could feel herself blushing clear to her hairline. “You don’t mean…”
“Just the blood, Mia,” Alex said softly, pulling back the sleeve of his coat.
“Hide what you’re doing,” Zack hissed. He picked up Mia’s arm and pushed back her sleeve. “I’m just going to get your blood flowing,” he warned. “Don’t worry, you’ll like it.”
He bit into her wrist and hot, erotic sensations flooded her. She moaned and heard the arousal in her voice. Zack grinned and gave her wrist to Wyatt. “Take care of her, you lucky dog.” He moved back to his post.
Wyatt looked down at her wound.
“Drink,” she said. “It doesn’t hurt.”
She felt him draw blood into his mouth. For long seconds he held it there, then swallowed. He drew in a breath and let it out. Silently, he handed her wrist to Alexander. He held out his other arm, showing two puncture marks, bleeding freely.
Wyatt bent over the punctured wrist and sucked deeply, drawing in the vampire blood. This time he did not hesitate to swallow. He sat up and licked his lips, his gaze locking with Alexander, as the vampire raised Mia’s wrist to his mouth.
Alex smiled. “Trying to shame me, hunter?”
“Yes.” Wyatt laughed and sat back on his hands, relaxed and at peace.
Alexander drew in a mouthful of Mia’s blood. She could feel it flow but there was no pain, for the masking drug injected by Zack’s bite was still active. He lingered over her wrist and pulled away with effort. When he looked up, his eyes were black.
He turned to Wyatt. “Your turn.” His voice was thick with lust. Animal lust.
She shivered.
Wyatt straightened and brought up his arm but Mia caught at his sleeve. “No, wait, Alex. I think he should open it himself. With his knife. It seems right, somehow.”
Alexander’s eyes were black but she could see the mind behind them still working. He nodded. “I’ll show you where,” he told Wyatt. He drew a line with his fingernail on his inner arm, crossing a minor vein. “Here.”
Wyatt pulled out his iron knife. “Does it matter that I’ve just had this inside a demon? Shouldn’t I sterilize it or something?”
“I think it should be used just like it is,” Mia said. “It makes it more powerful.”
Wyatt drew the tip across his wrist where Alexander had indicated. Immediately blood welled and dripped, but it was a minor wound. Just enough to draw blood. Alexander’s instincts were accurate.
“Ladies first.” Wyatt held out his wrist.
There was a screaming squeal from the tree line and a clash of weapons meeting. Mia jumped. Around them, the elvish skirmish lines rippled as they focused on the attack at the tree line.
“They’ve figured out what you’re doing,” Zack called. “Finish it.”
She picked up Wyatt’s wrist, fastened her lips over the wound and sucked. Blood spilled into her mouth. Too much of it but it was too late. She made herself swallow.
Alex took Wyatt’s arm and bent over the wrist. She could see him sucking at the wound, drawing too much. She pummeled at his shoulder. “Let him go, Alex. Alex!”
He snapped upright, swallowing and wiped at his lips. His eyes were all black.
“The Grimoré are about to attack. You have to snap out of it,” Mia told him. “Give me the odds of us getting out of this to the nearest two decimal places.”
He glanced around. “Zero point zero two, with the elves.” He shook his head, clearing it. His eyes returned to blue and he looked at her. “How did you know?”
“I heard a story once….” She smiled. “Long story. Come on.” Wyatt was there, helping her.
“He calculated our odds at just under even?” Wyatt murmured. “He can do that?”
“I wouldn’t speak those odds too loudly,” Mia responded. “He was caught by the taste of your blood.”
“Blood trance. I didn’t see it.”
“His eyes give it away.” They got him to his feet. “Damn, that snow was wet.” She brushed off her coat and looked at Alexander as he shook his head again. “Ready?”
He bent, picked up his knife and straightened. “Now I am.”
Seaveth looked over her shoulder. “Well done, Shamira,” she said warmly. “Is your trinity ready to go?”
“Yes, we’re ready.”
“Hey, look who’s here to gloat,” Zachariah called softly. “Ol’ Helidoro himself.”
An impossibly tall dark shadow hovered at the park entrance, eyes glowing red.
“Gang’s all here,” Lindál murmured. He raised his chin and let the snow fall on his face for a moment. “Time to party.” He tucked his hair behind his pointed ears, flexed his shoulders and settled into a fighting stance that radiated menace.
Seaveth glanced over her shoulder again. “If your trinity would join us in the ranks, we will begin.”
Mia turned to Wyatt and Alexander. “I’d better quit my job in San Diego, hmm?” She kissed them both quickly. Fiercely. “Don’t get dead, or I’ll be very pissed.”
Wyatt grinned. “Yes, ma’am.”
Alexander laughed. “And she throws thin
gs when she’s pissed.”
“Learn Spanish, right?” Wyatt headed for the space between Lindál and Zack. He nodded at them and spun the iron knife before settling between them. Mia stepped between Zack and Seaveth. She took out the Glock and checked the rounds left.
“Hey, that’s my gun!” Zack said.
“It’s a very good gun,” she said coolly. “Do you have more bullets for it?”
Zack’s jaw dropped.
“Zack, give her the other clips,” Seaveth said with a snap to her voice.
Zack dug in his coat and flipped two spare clips over to her, one at a time. Mia nodded her thanks and tucked them into her pocket.
Seaveth’s voice washed over them.
“Two trinities, united. The first of the Grimoré confront us. We can defeat them, with the elves beside us. The prophecies tell us we will live through this and see a third trinity form sometime in the future. So stay calm, stay together and we will win through to the dawn.”
Mia couldn’t help but look back over her shoulder. She saw Alex and Wyatt do the same. She smiled, knowing they were thinking the same thing.
The three of them had already reached the dawn.
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Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes erotic vampire romances, hot romantic suspense, paranormal and urban fantasy romances. She has published over 60 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and Byzantine Heartbreak was a 2012 winner. She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
Her website can be found at http://TracyCooperPosey.com
Other books by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Blood Knot Series (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)
Blood Knot
Blood Stone
Blood Unleashed (Upcoming)
Blood Revealed (Upcoming)
Beloved Bloody Time Series (Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)
Bannockburn Binding
Byzantine Heartbreak
Romani Armada
Kiss Across Time Series (Paranormal Time Travel)
Kiss Across Time
Kiss Across Swords
Kiss Across Chains
Guardian Bonds (Gargoyle Paranormal Series)
Carson’s Night
Beauty’s Beasts
Sabrina’s Clan (Upcoming)
Destiny’s Trinities (Urban Fantasy Romance Series)
Beth’s Acceptance
Mia’s Return
Sera’s Gift
Short Paranormals
Solstice Surrender
Eva’s Last Dance
Guns ‘n’ Lovers Series (Romantic Suspense)
Red Leopard
Black Heart
Blue Knight
White Dawn (Upcoming)
Silver Noon (Upcoming)
Golden Day (Upcoming)
Go-get-‘em Women (Short Romantic Suspense Series)
The Royal Talisman
Delly’s Last Night
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
Sian’s Run (Upcoming)
Jewells of the Morrow series (Historical Romantic Suspense)
Diana By The Moon
Heart of Vengeance
The Perilous Maiden (Upcoming)
To Soothe a Savage Heart (Upcoming)
The Heart of the Enemy (Upcoming)
The Cherlebury Rose (Upcoming)
The Duchess of Winter (Upcoming)
Despite The Sands Of Time (Upcoming)
Scandalous Sirens (Historical Romance Series)
Forbidden
Dangerous Beauty
Rhys Davies’ untitled story (
Upcoming)
Romantic Thrillers Series
Fatal Wild Child
Dead Again
Dead Double
Terror Stash
Contemporary Romances
Lucifer’s Lover
An Inconvenient Lover
The Sherlock Holmes Series
Chronicles of the Lost Years
The Case of the Reluctant Agent
For reviews, excerpts, and more about each title, visit Tracy’s site and click on each title in turn: http://tracycooperposey.com/books/tracys-trilogies-series/
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