If it were up to her, my nose would be nuzzling his neck by now.
Blinking the urge away, I swallowed. “I’m fine, I think.”
A sensual grin stretched his rosy lips, making me dizzy. It was like he knew the effect his presence, his scent, had on me and my wolf. “I’m glad to hear that. I’m Hannes Re?—”
“Okay, guys that’s enough. You canswoon herlater,” A woman interrupted behind him, pushing everyone aside to reach me. “What she needs is room to breathe… Let me help you, sweetie.” Her hand extended to me, and as I looked up at her, something in her grey eyes told me I could trust her.
The moment I got to my feet, I swayed and had to hold on to her not to fall on my face. “Sorry.”
“It’s fine, I promise,” she offered with an honest smile, and I felt compelled to smile at her too, grateful for her kindness. “Long introductions short, my name is Vanessa. And theThree Stoogesover here are Mr. Temperamental, Mr. Cocky…” she began, gesturing to Hannes and Dante respectively, “and Mr. Impulsive… or D for short.” She snickered at her own joke, gesturing to the third man now behind her.
The second my eyes fully focused on him, the events of the last few hours slammed into my memory, making it all so painfully real.
“He’s a Vampire!” I yelled in warning, pulling the human girl back with me to protect her.
Regret flashed in his crystalline hazel eyes, and he shook his head, the pleasing scent of pine, wild orchid, and smoked vetiver exuding from him when he stepped closer. “Natasha, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to?—”
“I riskedeverythingto save your life!” I accused, hurt, offended, and fucking pissed off before my eyes widened withmore flashing memories. “You kissed me!” Dread replaced everything else. “And I kissed you back! Oh, Goddess, I kissed a Vampire!”
I expected the notion to make me nauseous, instead, my cheeks flushed with the sensation awakening from his soft, full lips on mine.
“You guys kissed already?” a man standing in the back, who I couldn’t see, asked the Vampire—or D, as the girl called him. “You got game, bloke. High five.”
“Bjørn!” everyone scolded.
“Also, sorry to be the one to tell you this, dearie, but she’s a Vampire too,” the hidden man added in the strangest accent. “And I’m one as well—well, sort of.”
My attention returned to the girl I was clutching to my side in an effort to protect her.Shit!
Heart racing, I pushed her away from me, realizing none of them were human. Three Vampires, aLord of Twilight—whatever that meant—and a treacherous Wolf Shifter, those were my saviors?
Or mycaptors…
What the hell was happening here?!
My startled gaze snapped to the shifter. “How could you betray our race like this? Betray humanity? How can you mix with Vampires after everything they have done? They feed from innocent humans and make them their blood slaves!”
Granted, I was getting a bit hysterical, but after everything that had happened, who could blame me?
Seeming deeply troubled by my statement, the shifter opened his mouth to explain, but before he could, a more frightening memory crashed into my mind.
Dear Goddess… No.
“Isis!” I gasped, true fear clinging to my being with the image of her falling into the wild river while fighting Ryker. “I have tofind Isis!” Whirling around I rushed the swaying wall of shadows that surrounded us, running toward the forest.
Massively ripped arms caught me, pulling me back inside the strange darkness barrier. The shifter pressed me against his iron-hard chest, his hot breath fanning my skin when he pressed our cheeks together.
“Calm down, Natasha,” he urged, his lips so close to mine that my wolf was painfully aware of it. “You are going to alert theShadow Bornof our location.”
“Let me go!” I snarled, even when having his arms around me this way made my stomach dip, sending tingles down my body. A fierce growl escaped my throat, and I jerked in his hold, not letting my wolf’s attraction to this stranger distract me from what was truly important.
Nothing mattered right now but one thing, finding Isis.
Bucking my hips against him, I threw my body forward to get him off me, or at least I tried. His body didn’t budge a muscle. Instead, my ass slammed against his groin, and his hold on me tightened, a guttural, sensual sound ripping from deep within his chest.
“If you do that again, we are going to have aspecialkind of problem,Meine Prinzessin,” he grunted in my ear.
Heart slamming against my chest, I pushed aside the need awakening in my wolf. What the hell was wrong with her? This wasn’t the freaking time for this!
