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When Emma arrived.
Did I ever have a say in this?
He chuckled. The night air was cool on her skin. You always have a say, he said, and I’ll send them back to Savage if that’s what you want.
No. You’re absolutely right on this one. My house would be an easy target. But what will Kryder think when he finds out that you invited his wolves to set up defenses against him?
He didn’t answer for a moment, which made Natalie uneasy. She wasn’t sure she wanted to hear what he had to say.
It came anyway. No doubt he already knows. We were busy at The Sapphire Club, too busy to really be seeing anything. But my memories are filled with several women, dressed in blue silk. It looked like a uniform of sorts. They all had sapphire flame markings on their throats, though they were covered up with jewelry.
Right, she interjected. Those neck cages made up of diamonds. I can picture them. By now, she and Grant were flying across the main canal and were almost at her house. She watched as Ryan and his men showed up, right on schedule and began a descent into her backyard.
Grant slowed down as she added, So, you think he’s using fae women in his club and keeping tabs on the future.
A bunch of tabs. He began his descent.
As she watched the wolves, all powerful warrior-types, form into an array to the side and behind them, she said, We might have a bigger problem.
Bigger than Kryder?
Well, yes. I don’t know about you, but I’m starved. Only, how am I supposed to feed a dozen hungry men?
He chuckled. Slowing in the air, he directed the wolves into her garden though he drew back just enough and landed easily beyond the shrubs and not far from the canal. There were no tourist boats visible either, though she could hear one in the distance.
He drew her behind a shrub and pulled her into his arms. “Have I told you how proud I am of you, of what you accomplished at Neil’s and how you performed just now at The Sapphire Club? You were outstanding. I mean it, Natalie.”
“I could say the same, Grant. I reached a point where I knew Kryder’s fae had blocked us up completely in the future. I
still don’t know how we escaped.”
He grinned again and drew her tighter against him. “I was just faster than the fae’s ability to read the future.”
“I like it when you’re fast.” The nearness of him, the wonderful sweet lumberyard smell of him, had her wolf doing somersaults.
“I’ll go fast for you, as long as you want, as long as you can take it.”
He kissed her and, for just a sliver of time, the world as well as its incessant cares and worries, vanished like smoke rising high into the atmosphere. All she felt, all she knew was the strength of this man’s arms around her, holding her tight, promising security at least for the moment.
A tourist boat rounded the bend in the canal not far from her house. The sound of the quiet motor was a soft, putt-putt drone that had Grant pulling away from her.
“It’s very peaceful here.” He drew her deeper into the shadows.
Natalie had placed the garden lights in such a way that she had few places on her canal-front property that gave her privacy.
He kissed her again, only this time his hands wandered in the nicest way. I love the feel of your lips, Grant. Like heaven.
His kisses pushed at her and she smiled because she knew what he wanted. She parted her lips. But when his tongue entered her mouth, her knees gave way.
He caught her tight against him, however, and kept her upright. The man had a way about him that made her legs refuse to hold her up. He’d have her on her back in a few more seconds if she didn’t stop him. But she really didn’t want to.
Her wolf had already started responding and her right hand slid to the nape of his neck urging him.
We should go somewhere. His deep resonant voice in her mind had her breathing harder still.
But her wolf sounded a quiet warning. She drew back and shifted her head, looking through her wolf’s eyes. She saw a familiar aura. Kryder’s fae is looking at us in the future.
The aura vanished, however, the moment Grant released her. “Was she here?” he asked.
