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At that, Marius smiled. Yeah, I did. But listen, I’ve got a problem.
I can hear it in your voice; you’re close to a second round, aren’t you?
Yes, and I’d really hoped I’d be back at The Erotic Passage.
You know we would have taken care of you.
I know. Except for his brothers and Gabriel, he had no better friend than Rumy.
So where are you?
I’m holed up in the one place no one knows about. He stopped to stare down at Shayna. I’m going to need help, but I’m reluctant to bring anyone here. This has been my primary hiding place all these years.
Rumy was silent for a moment, then said, You want me ready as backup in case Shayna can’t or won’t donate?
Yes. Even to his own ears he sounded relieved. He didn’t want to do anything to jeopardize the secrecy of his home, so his current plan involved Shayna opening a vein. But if she wasn’t up for that, yeah, he needed an option.
I’ll have someone on call in case things don’t work out over there, okay?
Thanks. He was grateful to be understood so quickly.
Just give me a shout if you need me.
Will do.
He cut the communication and moved to sit down on the side of the bed as he’d done before in Chile. He gently pushed her hair away from her face. She’d be in pain for a while and there was nothing he could do about that except to encourage her to keep siphoning more of his power once she woke up. He glanced down at her right hand, clamped in a fist, the chain laced through her fingers. No matter what, she wouldn’t let it go.
Smart. Very smart.
Just as she began to stir on the bed, his stomach cramped. He leaned over, holding his breath, a hand to his forehead. Shit, this was bad.
Shayna moaned. He glanced at her and watched her eyes flutter open. “Where are we? Are we safe?”
When she met his gaze, she stared at him for a long moment. “You stabbed your father.”
“I did, but he still got away.”
“I know. Oh, my head hurts, but there’s something else. Marius, are you in some kind of pain? Because that’s what I’m getting and you’re kind of bent over. Were you wounded in the battle?”
He shook his head. “No. It’s nothing like that. I’ll tell you in a minute. I just want you to be free from your pain. Why don’t you try putting the chains together like you did on the flight from Chile.”
She struggled to sit up, then leaned close and pressed her chain against his. The power surge caused her to moan softly. “Oh, that is just so incredible, the way the healing power flows.”
After a moment she looked around, though keeping the chains touching. “I thought maybe we would have returned to the other cave. But this one … is amazing. My God.”
Marius glanced around as well. He’d been too caught up in both Shayna’s suffering and his own to recall just how much money he’d put into this home. He’d had all the work done in secret, which meant putting the craftsmen through enthrallment each time he brought them in and when he took them home.
He’d spent over five million dollars getting the cave livable and sealed from damp, all the bats relocated to other parts of the system, water rerouted from underground rivers to create the critical indoor plumbing as well as the aesthetic waterfalls in several of the rooms, not to mention dealing with all the solar-electrical issues.
Shayna’s gaze had become fixed on the angled waterfall some thirty feet away, which flowed from a space just beyond the tall ceiling line. This particular feature had lighting at the bottom that caused a glitter effect from the flecks of gold pyrite in the natural gray stone.
He breathed through another cramp.
“Is the fireplace functional like the one in Chile?”
He glanced back at Shayna, whose gaze had settled on the massive arched stone fireplace to the right, set at an angle in the direction of the bed. “It is.”
“Where does the smoke go?”
