It took her a moment to realize he’d climaxed too. In his pants. A flush of heat made her shiver. The sight of him half naked in addition to knowing what it felt like to come in his arms? What she’d been looking for all her life. And she’d found it in a vampire.
I’m in hell, no doubt.But wait. “You know I’m Kaia.”
“Yes, mate.”
“Mate? Like, friend? Like, ‘g’day, mate’?” she added in a bad Australian accent.
He frowned. “Kaia, I’m yours. Just let me sleep and I’ll satisfy your need soon enough.”
She hurried off him and watched him settle down onto the couch, his legs dangling off an end. “Orion? I need you to wait here until I come back.” She pushed her power through him once more, the waves of clean magic rolling through the pathways she’d created. “Stay here until I return, please.”
Something snapped between them.
He tensed then utterly relaxed. “Of course. The Night Bloode never back down. I’m yours, love.” All life left him, and he didn’t move again, lying as if dead.
She leaned close but felt no breath, saw no rise of his chest.
Dawn had come. The torpor brought with the sun’s rise was real.
Kaia let out a relieved breath. She’d done it. She’d rescued the vampire from her mother’s hideout and had broken the spell. She’d freed him.
Now she had to hurry home, dress, then find a way to get the vampire to forget all about his capture and continue living his life however he saw fit.
With a yawn herself, she left him and hurried back to her car. After getting home and cleaning up, she hurried to change into a cute pair of boots, a heavy skirt, and a warm top. She borrowed a set of clothes from her burly lycan roommate and rushed back to work.
As the hours passed, she grew more giddy.
I did it. I rescued a vampire and lycans from the White Sea Witch without anyone’s help. I am awesome!
But as the workday dragged on, she had no luck researching a forget spell that might work on a vampire. And since she’d broken her mother’s hold over him, she couldn’t use Sabine’s magic to make him forget. What to do? She thought about calling Cho for help, but only if he’d swear not to tell Macy.
On her next break, she snuck downstairs to find Orion still asleep, unmoving and in the exact same spot as the one he’d been in when she’d left that morning. She’d brought a bag of clothing and a spare blanket and tucked that around him. Though Orion didn’t appear cold, looking at him half dressed made her coldandturned her on. Neither of which she needed at the moment.
She turned to leave when what he’d said before came back to her.“The Night Bloode never back down.”
Night Bloode.
Macy’s new clan was the Night Bloode.
What were the odds there was more than one Night Bloode clan in the city? Or that one of them happened to be a vryko in an area populated by upir and one clan of multi-tribal vamps?
Sabine had captured and bespelled one of Hecate’s blessed kin while looking like Kaia.
I’m so fucked.
There was no way around it. She had to call Macy.
She dialed her sister with shaky hands.
“Hello, Kaia. How did it go?” Macy asked with a smile in her voice. She yawned. “You’re lucky I’m up early today.”
“Macy, I’m in trouble. You can’t tell anyone. Not Duncan or any of the people you live with.”
“What’s wrong?” Her sister sounded awake and alert.
“I need you to come to ADR right away. I’m off at five.”
“I’m on my way.”
