Page 5 of Bound By Love
Her wavy, mahogany hair fell beneath her shoulders and emphasized her square face and slender nose with its slight upturn at the end. Her scent of the ocean, fresh salt air, and the fire of her forge permeated the room.
The place was small but warm and inviting. Hanging from the thick, wood beams running across the ceiling of her apartment, numerous shells, starfish, and other ocean finds decorated her apartment. A blue armchair with a shell pattern sat in the corner.
His eyes dropped tohisfresh bites on Caro’s creamy skin. Something different had definitely happened to him not so long ago.
“Yes,” he admitted to Brie.
She sighed. “Are you going to tell me what it was, or am I supposed to guess?”
He decided to ignore her question. The Alliance would soon learn Caro was his mate, but he planned to keep it to himself for a little longer.
It was still so new and unexpected, still so private andtheirsto share. Not to mention, he had a lot of enemies out there.
The last thing he wanted was word getting around that he’d found his mate. Countless vamps and demons would be more than happy to hunt her down and destroy her once they learned it, and he wasn’t ready to paint a giant bullseye on her back.
“We need the stones,” he said. “I’ll call back tomorrow to tell Ronan how to get them here.”
“They’re not going anywhere without me.”
Saber had suspected this, but he’d hoped she’d stay away. He couldn’t avoid her forever, but he had enough to work through between Caro, this strange vision, and the increased presence of the demons. He didn’t need Brie traipsing around here on top of it all.
But they had to have the stones, which meant he would be stuck with her. That didn’t mean he had to associate with her. He was good at ignoring things he preferred not to acknowledge.
“I’ll see you soon then,” he said.
“Saber!” she blurted as he pulled the phone away from his ear.
His finger hovered over the red end button before he reluctantly put the phone back to his ear. “What?”
“What you saw tonight wasn’t a dream or a hallucination. If we don’t do something soon, thatwillbe the world.”
“I know.”
CHAPTERFOUR
He hungup as Caro pushed herself up and leaned against the headboard. When he looked back toward the doors, she glimpsed the sword tattoo on his back and neck. Flames rose around the sword like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
At six foot one, he was two hundred and ten pounds of solid muscle. His short, black hair had grown since arriving here, and his bright, cobalt blue eyes shone in the dark.
His narrow face and hollow cheekbones were so striking that her breath caught as she drank him in. His aura of power and cruelty caused her skin to ripple as the memory of what they’d shared sent a thrill through her.
He was a class one alpha-hole with awholelot of arrogance, but he washerasshole. And it was clear something was bothering him.
“Who was that?” she asked.
“My sister.”
Caro hid her surprise as she drew the blankets up and tucked them under her arms. He’d already seen everything there was of her, but she suddenly felt self-conscious sitting there naked.
He didn’t seem to feel the same way as he stood with his feet braced apart and not a stitch of clothing on him. He drove her crazy, but she couldn’t help admiring the view as her eyes ran over his chiseled body.
She hadn’t had much time to process what transpired between them earlier, and she still couldn’t believe what happened—having him as her mate was the last thing she expected or would have chosen.
He wasn’t a bad man, or at least not as horrible as he liked to portray, but he lived a dangerous life and was more closed off than Fort Knox. She would have preferred if fate hadn’t chosen himfor her, but it was pointless to fight or rail against it.
They would have to find a way to live together… without killing each other.
Besides, she had something else to worry about right now. And that was whatever had caused the tension weighing on his shoulders. “What happened?”
