Kissed by a Dark Prince(89)

She loosened her grip on him and relaxed again, but sombre feelings flowed through their bond and her eyes reflected them. “It sounds romantic... and I feel sorry for Bleu then.”

Loren brushed the backs of his knuckles across her cheek. “Bleu will find his mate one day. He is not in any rush though. He is a male born for battle and war, not tending to a mate.”

“A devoted bachelor and a player.” Olivia sighed. “We should definitely get back before he tries to seduce his way into Sable’s pants then, because if he hurts her, she will probably kill him.”

Loren couldn’t help smiling at that, easily able to picture such an event occurring. Sable would certainly go to war with any male who dared to hurt her, and Loren had the feeling that Olivia would be there fighting at her side.

He gathered her to him and she tiptoed and kissed him. They would return to Archangel and find out if Bleu had discovered anything about Vail at the club, but first he had another pressing matter to attend to.

He wanted to turn his bathing pool fantasy into a reality.





CHAPTER 19


The portal shimmered in multi-coloured hues before Loren, as tall as he was and twice as broad, slowly draining his energy. It took a lot of power to teleport in this way, forcing his ability to manifest itself away from his body, but Olivia had asked to see a portal like the one they used to bring light into his kingdom.

He took Olivia’s hand and guided her towards it. Her wide eyes darted around as they approached, her curiosity bouncing through their bond to him. She reached out with her free hand and gasped when it made contact with the portal and then disappeared. Loren smiled and led her into it and the moment they appeared in her apartment at Archangel, she turned to look back and frowned.

“Where did it go?” She glanced at him.

“Portals do not show on the other side. It would rather give away our approach.” It wasn’t just a matter of stealth either. While portals could be used for sneak attacks, they were more readily used as an easy method of transportation between his realm and this one. If a portal was visible at the destination, there was a chance that someone there could use it to cross over into his realm, or they could ambush him.

A shiver went through him and he tightened his grip on Olivia’s hand, his fingers pressing into the back of it.

“Something is wrong.” He cast his blue eyes around the room, his senses stretching beyond the walls of the small apartment, spreading through the building as he tried to pinpoint what had him suddenly on edge.

Was it Vail?

His heart rate picked up and he sent a mental command to his armour. It rippled over his skin beneath his formal black coat and trousers, and he was careful not to cover his hands so he didn’t hurt Olivia with his claws.

“What is it?” Olivia curled her free hand around his arm, drawing closer to him.

Her fear trickled through the link, but she was experiencing other emotions too. Fight and not flight. She felt her friends were threatened again and she wanted to seek out and eradicate the source of that threat.

“I do not know.” Just as he said that, alarms wailed and the lights dropped. Red flashing lights replaced them, hurting his sensitive eyes.

Olivia flinched, pressing her face against his arm. “Bloody unholy sound!”

She was still growing accustomed to the changes in her body and her heightened hearing and vision was probably causing her pain.

“Come,” he said and pulled her with him. He broke out into the corridor and several hunters rushed past, Sable and Bleu among them.

Olivia’s friend stopped and stared at her. Olivia blushed deeply, awkwardness written across her face as well as her emotions.

“What is it?” Olivia said over the constant screech of the alarm system.

Sable loaded her compact crossbow, a vision of dark menace in her combat gear and with her hair tied back into a long ponytail. “Something just popped into the cafeteria, and it is big. Like huge.”

Loren’s heart pounded now. “Take us there.”

Sable ran on ahead and Loren followed with Olivia, struggling to maintain the slower pace. It was good to have his full strength back. If he wanted to, he could be down at the cafeteria in a heartbeat. He didn’t know where it was though and it was quicker to follow Sable than it was to follow his senses.

Olivia kept pace beside him and Loren dared not look at her. She still wore her sexy halter-top and tight jeans, and he needed to concentrate. If he set eyes on her running in that dark purple top, he was liable to forget what he had been doing and want to kiss her, and more.

Evidently completing the bond did not lessen the ferocity of his need for her.

They ran down several flights of steps and along another pale corridor, and then he spotted the cafeteria ahead. The doors were jammed open, held in place by a broken table on one side and a collapsed hunter on the other.