“Ugh, no,” she snapped.“A gigolo sells himself for sex.Antonio’s just a womanizer.He tries to get in their pants.”
“Whose?”
“All of them,” She clawed his hand again.“If she’s female, he’s chasing her.”
“I thought he wanted Lola.”
“He wants tomarryLola,” she corrected.“Everyone else he wants to bang like a gong.”
Roan turned her in his arms and pressed her to the wall.She might as well have been a sack of potatoes that weighed nothing with the ease he moved her.“Like a gong?”He looked completely confused.“I’ve heard a lot of sexual references in all my time, which is a long time.But never one with a gong.”
“Blame Katy and Jaxine,” she huffed.“They’re the ones who put gongs on the mind.”
“What?”
Bane was back in the door.Just one second not there, and then boom, there.He wasn’t even winded.
“He was with KOV.He’s human, I thought,” Bane said, his voice a deep growl.
“What’s KOV, and why would Antonio be working with what sounds like a crime organization?Why would they want Katy?”The words flew from her mouth as her heart decided it was time to take a sprint in her chest.
Roan’s shock loosened his hold on her.She managed to shift and duck under the arm that had been over her head, resting on the wall.She made a dash for Lola’s room and really hoped Callon hadn’t managed to seduce her paranormal-romance-loving friend.Idiot, she mentally chastised.Of course, he’d managed to.Who would he not be able to seduce?Roan.Okay, yeah, he wouldn’t be able to seduce Roan.When did this hall get so damn long?
She felt a tug on her jeans and realized her body wasn’t moving forward even though her legs were moving.“Suck a mother of ducks,” she hissed and looked over her shoulder.
“You can’t just barge in there,” Roan warned, his voice way too calm for the situation.“With the mood Callon had been in when we left, he might attack you without even realizing who you were.”
Maddie’s mind worked in overdrive as she tried to get him to let her go.“I’ll throw the door open and then duck, and you can be standing right behind me and take the attack, while I crawl to Lola.”
Bane moved past them.How in the world did he move so quietly?“How aboutIdeal with the possible attack and while he’s distracted, you and Roan get to Lola and explain what’s happened.”
Again, like Roan, he sounded so calm and reasonable.What the hell?“Why are you guys so calm?Do girls get kidnapped all the time around you two?Was this just part of your day, like getting stuck in traffic, or waiting for the bathroom to open up at the coffee shop?”
“We’ve dealt with similar things,” Bane said.“We do work for a security firm after all.”
Roan pulled her back, his arm a vice around her waist and clamped her to his side.He stepped forward until he stood beside Bane, leaving Maddie beyond the door, safe from whatever might happen.She tried not to think of Katy getting further away with every second they wasted here.
“Is this going to wake up Lola's parents?”she asked, desperation creeping into her voice.
“He will probably roar,” Roan answered in a steady voice, “but I can use glamor to disguise it as something more mundane –like a car back firing or an ambulance driving by.”
Maddie rolled her eyes at Bane, and whispered harshly, “Not a wizard, my ass.”
Bane clenched his hand around the doorknob, and braced himself for what was coming.
Maddie’s body shivered.“Why do I feel like we're about to face a firing squad?”
“Not a firing squad,” Roan whispered back.“We're going to face a pissed-off, possessive, protective, lion beastwalker trying to repair the severe emotional damage he’s done to the one woman who can complete him.”
“Oh,” she shrugged one shoulder.“Is that all?”
Chapter 22
Utterly Insane.
“Can a person die from desire?Is it physically possible for a heart to burst, lungs to cease working, and complete organ failure to happen, because of hunger– not for food– but for another person?~ Lola
“Lola, what have I done?”Callon said again because he just couldn’t grasp how he’d let himself ruin the best thing that ever happened to him.
