It took everything in him not to kill Marino that day in the backroom of Malcor’s. It may make him a bad person, but he wanted Marino dead and Snooke safe.
“I understand your fears, warrior. But you need to understand something as well. If Marino finds out how to use that crystal, no one will be safe. The keeper is working on a spell. It can’t be rushed. Until then, we need to find Snooke’s uncle.”
Kane knew he was right. If Marino did somehow manage to unlock the crystal, they were all in trouble. Some of those beings were more powerful than the warriors. “We can’t let Crypt escape.” It had taken the combined efforts of all ten warriors and Panahasi the first time he was captured. Crypt was the biggest, meanest, and most powerful of the detention cell inhabitants. The neutralizing cuffs hadn’t even fit around the fucker’s wrists.
The keeper is watching his cell closely. None of us want Crypt to escape.” Panahasi pushed away from the frame and walked toward the door. “Just keep an eye on Snooke and Dillon.”
“I already plan on doing that.” Kane closed the door behind the leader. He had already turned on every light in the bedroom to dispel any shadows. Kane didn’t want anyone coming into his home and harming the one man that meant the world to him.
He walked around the living room cutting on all the lights.
“Hey, that’s too bright,” Dillon complained.
“Do you want someone creeping in here and killing you in your sleep?”
Dillon jumped up and ran around the room, hitting the light switch and turning on lamps. “Hell no, there’s too many hot guys around here for me to die just yet.”
Kane rolled his eyes as he headed for the bedroom to check on his mate. Snooke was fast asleep.
He closed the door once again, leaning against it as he prayed that he could keep his mate safe until the keeper added another spell to their breach-proof building.
Chapter Nine
Snooke stood in Chris’s backyard, laughing as Hondo fired up the grill. Kane brought the large plate of meat out and sat it by the grill. “Another month already.”
“I love these monthly barbeques,” Chris said as he joined them.
Kane looked longingly at his mate. He had waited so long to find him, and there he stood laughing amongst friends. It was surreal to Kane. To see those indigo eyes light up with merriment. To see the wide smile add beauty to an already gorgeous face.
His Snooke.
Would he ever see a sight more beautiful? Kane grabbed a bottle of beer from the cooler and walked across the lawn to stand next to the white-haired angel. He could see Snooke’s eyes light up as soon as he saw Kane. To have someone in his life that was happy when he was around was thrilling to the warrior.
It didn’t matter to him what Snooke’s intentions were when he started out. He ended up as Kane’s mate. His chest tightened at the sight of Snooke’s flushed skin, knowing his mate was feeling just as aroused as he was.
“I see you’re having a good time.” Kane tipped the bottle back as he stared down at Snooke.
“I am.” Snook’s eyes gazed around the yard, his smile growing brighter as he spotted the neighborhood kids slowly filtering into the backyard. The barbeque was a something they held every month. He could see why Chris was giving Hondo such grief over letting the house go and moving into the apartment building.
To be at the barbeque, having it in Chris’s backyard, was a sense of home, of family. If he were Chris, he wouldn’t want to give that up either.
“You should try the banana pudding. I made it,” Snooke boasted proudly.
“Then I better make sure I get a large bowlful.”
Snooke shook his head, his lips twitching with humor as he glanced up at Kane. “You’re just saying that because I made it.”
Kane liked the playfulness in Snooke lately. His cock seemed to be standing at readiness all the time now, eager to please his mate in such wicked ways. Kane ran his hand down his chest, seeing the teasing way Snooke’s eyes glittered at him.
His thighs tightened at the lustful way Snooke was looking at him. The need to take Snooke now was riding him hard. He glanced around the yard, seeing some engaged in conversation, others playing with the kids. Kane wondered if they would be missed for, oh, twenty minutes while he had his way with Snooke in the bathroom.
Snooke bit his bottom lip and gave Kane a slight nod.
Kane didn’t have to decipher what that nod meant. He placed his hand on Snooke’s lower back as he looked around, guiding the slim demon toward the house.
He did a happy dance in his mind. It didn’t matter how many times he was with Snooke. Kane would never get enough. Kane was well acquainted with his own sexual appetite, his hunger.