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“So, how long have you been dating the pet vet?”
All at once, her stiffness was back with a vengeance. “None of your business.”
The blatant hypocrisy made him laugh. “You looked like you were about to ram your knife through Felicity’s heart earlier, and yet you begrudge me this simple question?”
She muttered a curse before saying, “I wanted to kill Felicity because she’s a shallow bitch who pisses me off. It had nothing to do with you.”
Now his laughter was low, deeper, and filled with everything she was trying to deny between them. “Liar.”
He pulled her closer. Her warmth teased him in ever increasing waves, and with every brush of his body, her hands started to tighten on his shoulders. When his hips rubbed hers with a light, sensual graze, she gasped, and her scent bloomed with desire. He let her see him inhale the proof of her arousal while his hands slid down her back in a slow caress.
“Lie all you want,” he murmured. “Youdidmiss me.”
She huffed even as pinpricks of emerald lit her gray gaze. “No, you’re just a good dancer. Felicity seemed to agree, too.”
Back to her again, were they? Well, if she wanted to compare wedding reception partners… “Seeing me kiss Felicity was the least you deserved after I had to watch that human teddy bear fawn all over you. Really, Kitten, what were you thinking, dating him? Your mum has bigger balls than Noah.”
“His balls are fine!” she shot back, and then color filled her cheeks.
Normally, her blushes amused him. This time, it had the opposite effect. Was she embarrassed because she’d revealed more than she intended? Bones hadn’t asked Noah how serious things were between him and Cat. He’d only implemented the “leave ten minutes after you hear this word” instruction. His reason was simple: he didn’t trust himself not to kill Noah if he admitted to shagging Cat, and technically, Noah had done nothing wrong.
“Right,” was all Bones said. “No wonder you’re so hot around me, then. With how you keep pretending to be human, I reckon the best shag you’ve had all these years has been yourself. All that holding back must be frustrating.”
A low blow brought about by his rabid, vampire-infused jealousy. Cat didn’t hesitate to return it.
Her leg swung up, hooking around Bones’s hip. Then, she pressed against him as if they were in bed instead of at a club. She even twisted her hips to increase the agonizingly sensual friction. Feeling her soft heat grind against his cock made his mind go blank. There was no loud music, no dancers, no other vampires to kill… nothing but the fire ripping through him.
“Looks like I’m not the only one who’s been frustrated,” he barely heard her say. “Might want to tone down your eyes, Mr. Optical Hard-on. People might notice.”
Bones snapped his eyes shut, but peoplewouldnotice the hell out of something else, if she kept toying with him this way.
He leaned down until his mouth brushed her ear. “Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still want you. So, if you do that again, I’ll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch.”
A tremor went through her, and her scent sharpened until desire covered even the coppery tang of blood. Bones drew in that heady aroma and his hands tightened around her.
“Oh, Kitten,” he rumbled as his mouth slid to her throat. “Now you’re just daring me to, aren’t you?”
Warm air teased his cheek from her rapid, breathy exhales, and her pulse hammered against his lips. Oh, yes, she wanted him, and he might not make a public show of claiming her as he’d threatened, but therewasa private room only a few doors away…
Hair-raising energy suddenly shot through the room. Mentally, Bones cursed. The other vampires had arrived.
Bones forced his lust back as he released Cat and opened his eyes.
“They’re here.”
14
The three vampires moved through the crowd like sharks carving through water. The humans probably didn’t realize that they backed away a fraction to let them pass, but some instinct inside them had recognized predators on the hunt.
The vampires noticed, and the two men and one woman changed their vibe. Suddenly, they were all smiles and slowing their movements to be more casual and less purposeful. Within moments, the crowd stopped parting and began pressing closer instead. It helped that the vampires were beautiful. The woman looked Irish with her coppery-colored hair, light smattering of freckles, and gardenia-pale skin, while the two men were blue-eyed Caucasians with buttery-blond hair and golden bronze skin that spoke of either a human life spent outdoors or an excellent spray tanner.
Cat groaned when the trio split up, each heading in a different direction. “I’m going to call my team,” she whispered. “They can secure the perimeter so none of them gets away.”
“Don’t bother,” Bones replied while eying the trio. “Your toy soldiers are over an hour away, and I can practically feel the bloodlust pouring off these sods. They’re going to feed soon. If you wait for your team, someone will die.”
“But if one of them goes for the members-only area and sounds the alarm, we’ll lose the other two,” she countered. “And I’ve got too much blood on my dress to offer myself up as a test bite, so, got any better ideas?”
“I do,” Bones said, and pulled the nearest single woman of similar size to Cat next to him. Her instant sputter was cut off when Bones brought his face close and cupped his hands around their eyes so no one else could see his glow.
