Night Unbound(114)

He glanced down and caught her staring. “What?”
She shook her head. “I just love you. That’s all.”
He stopped short. Turning to face her, he locked an arm around her waist and dragged her up against him. His lips crashed down on hers, stealing her breath and kick-starting her pounding heart.
Lisette’s body reacted as though they hadn’t just made love. Twice. Heating up and straining against him.
“Dude. Seriously. Get a room.”
Zach raised his head. Lisette saw Sheldon, standing just outside the training room.
Sheldon must not have liked what he saw in Zach’s eyes, because he swallowed and ducked back into the room.
Zach’s eyes glowed with golden fire when they met hers. “You don’t know what hearing you say that does to me,” he said, voice guttural.
“I have a pretty good idea.” She arched into the hard length of him, hissing in pleasure.
He groaned and closed his eyes. “I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of you.”
“Good. Because I know I’ll never get enough of you.”
Yuri’s voice, thick with a Russian accent, floated out of the training room. “Well, I’ve had enough of the both of you. Either return to your bedroom and go at each other like rabbits, or continue on and spare us all the love and lust you’re oozing.”
Stanislav laughed. “Go easy on them, Yuri. They’ve only just found each other.”
Yuri grumbled something in Russian.
Zach smiled and shook his head. Still clasping Lisette’s hand, he stepped back.
She sighed as cool air swept between them, dampening her ardor. A little.
By the time they climbed the stairs and reached the ground floor, Zach had gotten his body under control.
Lisette wished she had been as successful.
They entered the infirmary and, again, stopped short.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Zach snarled.
Seth and David sat beside Ami, pouring energy into her as usual. Marcus sat on the other side of her, the babe snoozing in his arms. At Ami’s feet, stood a male immortal Lisette had never seen before.
“Aidan didn’t betray us,” Seth announced.
This was Aidan? The Celt? The one Zach had captured?
Zach’s hand tightened almost painfully around Lisette’s. “We saw the surveillance video of him breeching network headquarters, using mind control—”
“He breeched network headquarters for another reason,” Seth said. “He is in no way connected to the new vampire army that has risen against us. I read his thoughts. All of them. Even those you couldn’t access without killing him.”
“Then who is?” Lisette asked, at a loss. “Who is our enemy?”
“I don’t know.” Seth sighed. “I feel like I’m being fucked with.”
She nodded. First the evidence had pointed to Zach. Then to her. Then to Aidan.
“Perhaps that’s the point,” Zach suggested, still scowling.
Aidan nodded. “Someone may be trying to sow seeds of dissent, to pit you against the ranks.”
“How could they have known I would accuse the wrong Immortal Guardian? Three times,” Seth added with self-disgust.
“Technically,” Zach said, “I’m not an Immortal Guardian.”
“You’d damned well better be. You answered my calls for two days.”
“Oh.” Zach looked surprised. “Okay.”
Lisette nudged him with her shoulder. “Welcome to the ranks.”
“Anyway,” Aidan addressed Seth, “it’s just fortunate that you accused us.”
Zach grunted. “How the hell is that fortunate? I got my ass kicked because he thought I was guilty.”
“As did I,” Aidan reminded him darkly.
Lisette grinned. “I didn’t. I got a hug.”
The men laughed.
“Down With The Sickness” filled the air.
“I’m not kidding, Seth,” Zach warned. “I’m going to crush that phone if you don’t change the ringtone.”
Smiling, Seth answered the call.
“Can you come and get me?” Chris asked. “I want to show you something, and I’m too tired to drive.”
“I’m on my way.” Seth released Ami and disappeared. Seconds later, he reappeared with Chris by his side.
Chris handed a cooler to Marcus. “I brought more milk.”
“Thank you.” Rising with the baby cradled in one arm, Marcus took the cooler to the kitchen.
Chris nodded a greeting to Lisette, Zach, and David, glared at Aidan, then held something up for Seth to inspect. “The tracking device Cliff planted.”
Seth frowned. “How did you get hold of it?”
“I expected movement once the sun set. When nothing happened, I ordered an infrared satellite scan of its location. The scan found no signs of life, so I sent men to the scene to check it out.”#p#分页标题#e#