The woman wasn’t at all intimidated by Eclipse, her black eyes shooting to his face once more. “Or what?”
The next thing she knew, the woman was gripping her head, crying out as though in pain as she stumbled backward. The move drew the attention of everyone near them, a round of hisses sounding as the partygoers turned rabid.
“Fucking angel!” someone shouted, the words inciting more hisses, the gyrating bodies separating as they began circling them.
Orianna was seconds away from full-blown panic when suddenly everyone froze where they were.
Well, everyone except for Eclipse, who began maneuvering her out of the fray.
“Can’t take you anywhere, can I?” an enormous man asked, strolling toward them as he gestured in the direction of the exit. “I think it’s time we call it a night.”
“Agree,” Eclipse rumbled, taking her hand and pulling her alongside him.
She sidestepped the immobile bodies, wondering what the hell kind of game these people were playing. No one was moving, as though they were trapped inside their skin. Orianna stared in disbelief as they weaved between flesh-and-blood statues.
“What’d you do to them?” she asked.
“Don’t worry,” the stranger said. “I’ll release them once we’re outside.”
Release them? He was doing this?
Okay, so much for thisnotbeing a dream. Had to be. This was far too creepy.
Time to wake up.
Pinching herself, Orianna inhaled sharply when pain shot up her arm.
“You’re not dreaming,sezari.”
The hell she wasn’t.
The man who’d joined them opened the front doors and gestured for her to step outside. She glared at him as she passed, waiting for her alarm to go off and wake her up.
Cool air caressed her overheated skin when she stepped outside. Everything was exactly as it had been when she had arrived a short time ago. The house was cloaked in darkness, all those fancy cars still parked in front. No one was out here to intervene, which meant…
“Where’re we going?” Orianna demanded when Eclipse nudged her down the stairs toward the cars.
“Party’s over for us,” the stranger told her.
“Who’re you?”
He smiled, and once again she got a flash of fangs. “Name’s Kaj.”
“What the hell is going on?” Orianna snapped, jerking out of Eclipse’s hold and dividing her attention between the two men. “Who are you? Better yet,whatare you?”
Kaj was the one to answer. “Well, I’m a vampire, and my buddy here … he’s an angel.”
God, he said it like she should’ve suspected as much.
Wait. He said…
Orianna snapped her attention to Eclipse. “An angel?” She laughed, though she didn’t find this the least bit amusing. “An angel with fangs. Right.”
“Looks like you’ve got some explaining to do,” Kaj told Eclipse. “Why don’t you take the car and I’ll meet you at the mansion.”
Mansion?
Before she could launch another question, the man just disappeared.Poof!He was gone.
