Page 53 of Bitten By Bloodmoon
“Disgusting, isn’t it?” she says, wrinkling up her nose like she just tasted something sour.
I ignore her, listening in on Kael and Lumi’s conversation.
“I need to talk to Nyx, but are you sure you’re okay?” she asks him.
He nods. “Are you okay? Really okay?”
“Yes.”
“Then why did you make a deal with him? Were you under duress? Did he threaten you?”
“He’s tasted my blood. He can control my mind. He doesn’t need to make a deal with me, but he did. Making a deal was the right decision.”
Kael frowns but doesn’t say anything more as he eyes me watching them. Instead, he pulls Lumi tighter, his hand sliding dangerously close to the curve of her ass. “I’m just so happy you’re safe.” He kisses the top of her head.
She closes her eyes and smiles into his side. “I’m happy you’re here. I’ve missed you. We have so much to catch up on.”
And then he whispers so low that I think he believes I can’t hear him. “I’ll help you escape. I won’t let anything happen to you. I love you.”
I turn to Sylara, shutting them out as heat bursts through my body in powerful waves. I want to strangle that male’s neck, but I won’t. “Escort Kael to his room and make sure he has everything he needs.”
“Which room should I put him in? The dungeon or—”
“The room next to Lumi’s.”
She looks at me like I grew two heads. “But they aren’t mates, you shouldn’t be encouraging their feelings to grow for each other. She—”
“I trust Lumi, and right now, she needs him.”
I swallow hard, pushing the strange thoughts racing through my brain, telling me I should listen to Sylara and put him in the dungeons, but not before ripping his throat out and cutting his hands off so he can never touch what’smineagain.
I shake my head at the ridiculous word that floats around my brain—mine. She’s not mine, not my mate.
Sylara says something to Kael that earns her a swipe from the male. She dodges the move easily and twists his arm behind his back.
Lumi’s eyes go wide, but Kael just cackles, and Lumi backs down, watching them curiously.
I motion with my head for the others to leave behind Sylara and Kael, who we can hear bickering the entire way up the stairs, until it’s just Lumi and me left in the gym.
“Is Kael really safe with her?”
I shrug. “They were both like this the last time Kael was here, and they both survived. I expect the same this time.”
She frowns. “Promise me you won’t hurt him.”
“I already told you the blood deal doesn’t work that way.”
She shakes her head. “No, just promise me with your words.”
“I’ll do my very best not to hurt him. But I can’t guarantee anything if he keeps putting his hands all over you like that.”
A slow smile creeps over her lips as she stands with her hands on her hips, her tight shorts and tank top still glistening with sweat from her workout. She swings her silvery hair back and forth in her ponytail.
“You’re jealous? You can’t be serious.”
Trust me, I wish I weren’t.But I don’t respond to her.
“Kael is nothing to me. He’s my best friend. The only connection I have left to home. I thought he could be my mate once, but I was wrong. And he doesn’t share any romantic feelings about me.”
