Page 10 of Eternally Bound
“Stay away from her!” Nathan’s bellow rent the air.
Shoving Joseph at Jayce, her brother rushed forward. Killen stepped forward to block his attack. Kadence screamed and lurched forward to help her brother as he barreled into Killean. The two of them tumbled to the ground in a frenzied heap.
Lucien jerked her back before she made it two steps toward them. Ronan’s hand lashed out to grasp Lucien’s forearm.
“I said let her go!” Ronan ordered.
Kadence’s jaw dropped.
“What is the matter with you?” Lucien demanded.
“Let her go.” His hand squeezed Lucien’s arm to the point where Kadence was certain the bone would break.
Lucien released her, and his brows furrowed as he studied Ronan. “I’d rather fight anyway,” he muttered before stalking away from the two of them.
It was then that Kadence realized the battle had commenced again. The only one hanging back now was Jayce, but he’d been saddled with Joseph.
“No!” Kadence stepped forward, determined to stop this, or at least try to help as her brother and Killean circled each other like wolves.
“No.” Ronan stepped in front of her, his solid body blocking her way.
He became all she could see as his chest alone was three times the size of hers. He was not as tall as the others, but there was no doubt he was the strongest one here. She didn’t have to see him in action to know that. Every strand of her DNA was aware of what stood before her: an old vampire with more power than she could begin to comprehend.
Her lips parted on a breath as her eyes fell on his shaded ones. She had no idea what it was about him, but she couldn’t find it in herself to care that he was a vampire—not when her skin felt electrified by his nearness and her nerve endings tingled with her need to touch him.
She craved more of him.
Thousands upon thousands of hunters were turning over in their graves right now. Self-hate skittered through her, but she couldn’t bring herself to pull out her stake and attack him.
Ronan shifted as the scent of her arousal on the air caused him to harden. She wanted him too. Her forehead furrowed in confusion over her reaction to him. He completely understood her confusion as he felt it too.
He didn’t know what drove him, but hehadto know if her skin was as supple as it looked. Without thinking, he reached out to touch her cheek. Beneath the pads of his fingers, her skin was like fine spun silk. She didn’t recoil from him, didn’t look repulsed. Instead, to his amazement, she turned her cheek into his hand so that her lips brushed against his palm.
A loud crash from behind him jerked them both apart and brought the world rushing back in around him.
“Shit!” he hissed.
How could he have forgotten about the fight behind him? How could he have left his friends to fend for themselves against the hunters and Joseph?
“Go!” he gruffly commanded her. “Get to safety.”
He turned away from her, knowing he would never see her again.
“Wait!” Her pale hand on his arm seared into his flesh, causing his teeth to scrape together when his cock jumped in response. He was not some horny teen, yet this woman had somehow managed to reduce him to that when his men needed him. He glanced at her over his shoulder. “Please, don’t do this.”
“We don’t want this,” he replied coldly, pulling his arm away from her before she distracted him further from his duties.
“I… I don’t understand,” she whispered.
“No,yourkind never has.”
The anger in his voice would have deterred anyone else; it didn’t deter her though.
“Please, I can’t lose him,” she whispered. Anger surged through Ronan; she was lusting over him, but still pleading for her lover’s life. He contemplated killing Nathan, simply so the man couldn’t continue to have what he so desperately craved for himself. “Not my brother.”
“Your brother?”
“Yes.”
