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“Damnit.”
Not exactly what she had expected.
“I’m unfamiliar with that locale. Mind narrowing it down, Raeth?” She tried to rein in her impatience, but their safety couldn’t wait.
The male had the audacity to growl at her from under the cover of his hand. “We’re in the Adirondacks. My cabin.”
“Spiriting me away to your hidey-hole? If you wanted me alone, all you had to do was ask.”
Kaien cursed before he sat up gingerly, his expression pinching. “St. Louis was too far to remote teleport you given your condition. This was the only safehouse I know of that was closer.”
Swallowing what would’ve been a sarcastic reply, she nabbed the blanket from where it’d crumpled around his lean waist. “If you’d be so kind, I’d appreciate you teleporting us back to New York, please. But before we go, I could use a few more hits of that healing energy. I’m not quite up to par.”
Deep brown eyes narrowed when he leered at her. “I can’t.”
“May I ask why?”
“I’m in recoil.”
Bland and flat, the words he spoke made her stomach drop. With Kaien in recoil, they were stranded here until he regained his abilities, and he couldn’t even telepath someone to come and retrieve them. Neither of them carried a cell phone either.
Blair’s heartbeat rose so suddenly she felt dizziness overtake her. “I need to get back!”
She sprung to her feet, ignoring the ripping sensation that blistered through her at the movement. Blair couldn’t keep the features of her face from displaying the magnitude of her pain. Lightheaded, she gingerly shook her head once to clear her vision, propping a hand against the nearest wall to right herself.
Kaien was beside her in a flash. “Blair, you can’t leave. We’re in the middle of the Adirondacks and there is no one around for tens of miles.”
“Do I look like I care?” Blair spat, withdrawing from him. “I need to finish what I started. Torrin needs to pay for his crimes.”
Whipping around, she pivoted and spied the front door. On unsteady legs, she moved toward it before an iron grip clenched around her bare upper arm. That’s when she realized she was wearing nothing but her slim pink bra and fitted skirt. Her blouse, hastily torn open by the Raeth who was currently trying to stop her, was in his other hand.
The satin material was saturated with dried blood. Blair pinned him with a glare before yanking it out of his grip and shrugging one arm into it, ignoring the twinges that caused her to tremble. She fruitlessly tried to yank her arm away from his grip to finish dressing.
Kaien’s voice sounded behind her. “My abilities will return far before you make it to civilization.”
“Somehow I doubt that.”
“You aren’t going to go anywhere fast, and it’s ninety miles to the nearest town.” The sound of his grunt set her blood on fire. “Just be patient. Wouldn’t want to report that my sister’s pet was eaten by wolves.”
“Let me go, Raeth!”
“You’re still very much wounded, Blair.” Kaien’s sensible voice never wavered while his hand tightened around her naked bicep. “I can’t allow you to go galivanting off into the wilderness when I promised Nina I’d protect you.”
Blair snapped. There was nothing she feared more than being restrained—being caged—and unable to get free. Hand clenching tightly in terror and rage, she reared back and slammed her fist into Kaien’s face. Instantly, thick blood poured from his nose, sparking the predator that lived under her skin. The Raeth’s hold, however, never loosened.
The feral wildness in her blood simmered to a boil, trying to pry off his iron grip. As her incisors erupted in her mouth, in a foreign but unrelenting fury, Blair hissed. She only grew more hostile as he closed his arms around her to prevent her from twisting out of his grasp.
Kaien’s deep voice was a sultry caress against her ear when she struggled against the solid wall of his chest. “Blair, stop. This is madness!”
Starved for blood and thirsting for revenge, the predator in Blair struck. Lightning fast, her fangs connected with his flesh, scraping savagely against his forearm. She ripped through his skin. Blood welled, coating her fangs with the surprising sweetness that belied Kaien’s power. Nothing could compare with the delicious shock of his blood as it filtered into her system.
But that wasn’t what made her suddenly stiffen.
The bond that’d suddenly flared to life, an irrevocable tie that spanned the distance between them, rippled with an underlying current of emotion. Of connection.
A mating bond.
Behind her, the man had quieted at her back, becoming an immovable board of muscle and heat. Neither could deny it, not when they felt each other so clearly through the psychic—and physical—bond that joined them together.
