The pair were already more than I could handle. I wasn’t planning to run a bed and breakfast here. Connor, Deborah and the other two were enough roommates. I didn’t want any more.
Inara rolled her eyes before returning to her threats. “We rank higher in the pyramid than you. Betray us, and I will torture you before I kill you.”
So much for leaving off the death threats last night. Inara had done it for me.
Deborah didn’t take her gaze off the pixie. “I understand.”
“So glad one of us does,” I grumbled.
Inara’s nod was firm. “Then feed the vampire so she can get to work. There are bills to pay.”
The sidelong look she sent me held a taunt.
“I should charge you rent,” I growled.
Along with an annoyance tax.
“I earn my keep every time I have to save your ass,” Inara gloated.
Connor stepped between us before I could do anything. “Feeding is unnecessary. Aileen ate during the day.”
A strangled sound made its way from between my lips as a hot flush of mortification heated my face. “How did you know that?”
He hadn’t heard us, did he? Please, no.
There was nothing quite so horrible as the thought of Liam’s biological nephew hearing us being intimate.
Especially given some of the things we’d done.
“Thomas added sound proofing to the rooms. However, intercourse is inevitable when blood, affection and vampires are involved.”
I slumped face forward onto the island, burying my face in my arms.
Kill me now.
Inara’s snicker didn’t help matters.
“Did I say something wrong?” Connor asked.
I pushed up from the counter. “I’m going to work now. I’ll see you at the end of never.”
“You’ll have to forgive her,” Lowen told Deborah. “She’s a bit of a prude.”
Keys. Where were my keys?
Inara’s speculative look stopped me before I could go in search of them. She nodded at the place where she’d shot me last night. “I’ve been wondering—how’s your shoulder doing?”
“It’s just fine, thank you,” I said in a snippy tone. “I barely noticed it after my shower.”
“Is that so?”
I went very still, sensing danger.
“You broke the magic pretty fast,” Inara continued with a nasty smirk that had alarm spreading through me. “We should up the intensity level.”
The snap of her fingers made me flinch. I backed away, focused on her when I should have remembered the second pixie’s presence.
My other sight descended as I caught a shimmer in the air from the top of my fridge. Lowen came into focus, his bow and arrow already aimed at me.
