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I shake my head and try to reach through the bars, jerking back at the zap running up my arm. “Don’t say that. It’s not worth it at all.”
“Anything for you is worth it. Anything.”
I can’t stop staring in his beautiful, ice-blue eyes, falling into the swirls of gold and green haloing the darkness of his pupils.
“I’m sorry I left, Leo. So sorry. I don’t know why I was being so stubborn. I guess I just thought of my future as different. I don’t know. But I regret that I treated you so badly.”
He shakes his head. “Doesn’t matter, sweetheart. We’ll talk about this later. Right now let’s get you safe.”
He reaches out and tentatively, slowly, touches the bars. Both of us flinch and I close my eyes, unable to look at him if something happens. But then I force my eyes open because I can’t bear to look away from him.
He grasps the bars and nothing. Both of us breathe a sigh of relief and I nod over towards the wall. “The keys are over there. Hurry!”
He rushes over and grabs them, inserting them into the lock and jerking it open roughly.
I stumble out into his arms and he wraps them around me.
“We have to go!” Lobo hollers at us, jerking his head towards the opening.
“I don’t think so,” a gruff voice growls behind him and he whips around, his eyes widening as he sees the red-eyed warlock behind him.
“Stay behind me,” he whispers, backing towards us.
“Not bloody likely,” I snarl, stepping around the two men, even as both of them try to grab onto me.
“Faust! You have picked the wrong chick to mess with, asshole. I’m not interested in your weird-as-hell proposal or anything that you can offer me. I’m not out for world domination. So you might as well just let me go and move on.”
“That’s not how this works, princess. You’re mine. I don’t care what the stupid fates think. I’m not giving you up.”
“You don’t have a choice. I’m not going any damn place with you.”
“If you won’t be mine, then you’ll be dead,” he hisses wildly, a golden-red glow starting on his hands and suffusing his arms and up his body.
“Not gonna happen, asshole,” Leo growls behind me and I can see Lobo stepping closer, his glowing eyes showing that his wolf is very close to the surface.
“I don’t think so, asshole. I think that you’ve got a few seconds to give this up or I’ll have to make sure that you pay for what you’re thinking will happen. It won’t.”
He glares at me. “I told you what will happen.” He lifts his arms and I see the fire fly from his fingertips but before he can let it loose, Lobo shifts quickly and lunges right for his throat.
He jerks away and his hands hit Lobo. The wolf yelps but hangs on tight.
I grab onto Leo. “Kiss me!”
“What?” He yells. “Now is not the time, sweetheart!”
“Yes, it is!” I grab his lean cheeks and pull him down, my hands holding tight as my lips hit his. It feels like the air around us charges and wind whips my clothes, stinging my cheeks but not distracting me in the slightest.
I moan and he pulls me tighter, his warm lips moving on mine, his tongue slipping inside my mouth and caressing my own, twining in an erotic dance.
Power surges along my entire body, zinging up and down my spine. I wrench free from Leo and turn towards Lobo and Faust. “Let him go, Lobo.”
The angry wolf glares at me and refuses to let go. “Good boy, let the bad man go,” Leo wheedles, earning himself a sharp, angry look from the shifter.
But he reluctantly lets him loose and darts away.
Faust glares at me. I can see that he’s hurt but I can also see that he’s got one hand on his injury, already healing himself.
“Do yourself a favor and get the hell out, Faust. I choose him as my mate and you can’t force me to choose you.”
