Caroline caught Jenna’s arm, hauling her back. My sister fought hard, but she was no match for a werewolf.
“What are you doing? We can’t leave her!”
Caroline shoved her toward the door. “I’m not happy about this either, but we don’t have a choice. You’ll just be in the way.”
“You’re going nowhere,” Dominick said.
Behind him, the woman and the black-haired man with unfinished features from last night glided into the room.
“No one is to leave. Block the exits. I don’t care what happens to the werewolf, but the human is mine,” Dominick informed them.
The woman licked her lips as she looked Caroline over. There was a mad light in her eyes that showed her lust for pain and blood. The man’s expression was dispassionate as he started forward.
Nathan blocked his path. “Does anyone else feel insulted that they keep forgetting about us?”
“I do,” Anton answered, not taking his gaze from the two newcomers.
The woman cocked her head and giggled. “Don’t worry. I can play with you when I’m done.”
Anton’s eyes narrowed. “Why wait when I’m right here?”
Insanity shone in the woman’s smile as she bounced forward.
“Helen,” her companion warned.
Helen pouted, disappointment flashing across her face. “You’re such a spoilsport, Arturas.” She batted her eyelashes at Anton. “Sorry, handsome. Maybe next time.”
“I’m afraid you’ll be dead before then,” Anton informed her.
She gave a full body shiver, acting like he’d just turned her on. “Promises, promises.”
“Is your blood slut worth the deaths of yourself and your men?” Dominick asked with a glance in my direction making it clear who he was referring to.
My hands trembled. “Liam.”
I wasn’t sure if I was asking for his help or warning him to leave me to my fate. Either option would result in losing something.
I couldn’t abandon my sister nor could I drag him down alongside me. It’d be like choosing between my heart or my lungs.
I couldn’t live without either.
Liam cupped my cheek. “I know,mo chuisle.”
Did he? Because that made one of us.
He smiled at me like I was the most adorable thing he’d ever seen.
“You’ve been impetuous, Dominick,” Liam murmured, not taking his gaze from mine. His hand dropped to the back of my neck and squeezed once. “The vampire I knew wouldn’t have been so hasty.”
Wariness replaced Dominick’s gloating.
“You dare attack a human while in another master’s territory—where you were specifically denied hunting rights,” Liam said with a silky purr to his voice that made my lady bits tingle in remembered pleasure. “Aileen acted in her master’s interests.”
Oh, wow. That was—
I didn’t even have words.
I gave a tiny nod of agreement. That’s exactly why I’d played darts with a broken beer bottle. To protect Thomas’s reputation. That sounded exactly like the sort of thing I’d do.
