Page 118 of The Demon's Fire
ChapterTwenty-Eight
“Yes,” shouted Logan, bracing his feet on the desk edge, pushing off to send himself flying across the room in his chair. “I’ve got you. Bastard.” His arms shot up in victory.
Jezzi was catching a few well-deserved winks on a cot shoved against the wall. “What? Who?” Still groggy, she rubbed sleep from her eyes and sat up.
“I got him.” He spun like a top in the chair, having pulled an all-nighter there.
Giving herself a lazy panther stretch, Jezzi rose. “Got who?”
“TheBigReveal.”
“You clever muscle-bound geek.” Jezzi threw her arms around his neck, planting a kiss on his mouth, her sleek, leathered body rubbing against him.
The Firebrand computer genius jumped to his feet. He folded his arms around her waist, swinging her in a circle, all the while keeping his lips locked to her luscious, plump ones.
She disconnected. “Okay, big guy. Come up for air so you can park my feet on terra firma. Let’s see what you’ve got.”
Logan grabbed her hand, leading her to his computer. He’d been working around the clock chasing the bloggers across the dark web, searching for an identity.
Logan looked at the screen, a grin creeping over his mouth as he craned his neck to stare at Jez.
“You’re a genius.”
“Hot damn, female. That’s so true. Got a call to make.” He tapped his D-chip.
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Kole’sD-chip vibrated with an incoming call. He tapped his wrist.Yeah?
He listened.Shoot straight to the punch line.
Without bothering to disconnect from Logan’s early morning call, Kole stormed from his office, grabbing a confused Dax, who was chatting with Bounty. “I need a vamp.”
He never should have allowed Skyler to return to her job at the Alliance. Of course, how would he have stopped her? By professing his undying love? By mating her? Even had he been ready to do that, and he definitely wasn’t, he doubted she would have stayed. She was headstrong. Stubborn. Perfect.
They raced to the stronghold’s portal, through the alley to Skyler’s condo, and into the lobby. Kole glanced at Dax. “Whammy the security guy so we can get up to the CLO’s place.”
Dax seized the guy’s mind, wiping their visit from it. They rode up in the elevator. Outside her condo, an Alliance agent was out on the floor. Dead.
Kole splintered the door when he burst into the living room, Dax on his six. They halted. A jittery man had a gun pressed to Skyler’s temple.
“Don’t move. Don’t even twitch or I’ll shoot her. I promise I will.” They guy’s eyes were wild, jumpy like the tic in his cheek. “You must be Cal.”
He nodded.
“Cal, I’m gonna walk out of here with her.” He inched toward Skyler. “How’re you doing, Frisca?” Kole was controlled, his fiery gaze fixed on the gunman’s eyes. The eyes always indicated what the body was about to do.
“I’m okay.” She tilted her chin, her voice calm.
“Can’t let you leave here, Cal.” Kole’s words came out in a low rumble, the rage building inside him. All the while, he glared at the nervous man. Any wrong move could result in a bullet to Skyler’s brain. He had to keep his fire at bay. He had to protect his female.
“Why are you doing this?” asked Skyler.
Cal tapped the barrel against her temple. “You know. Of course, I didn’t think you’d get company. But it is what it is. Let’s just go with the flow.”
Kole realized from the human’s high pitched, wobbly voice he was teetering on the edge of crazy. Maybe he had already fallen off. “What did Skyler do to you?”
“What did she do?” His voice was almost a squeal. “What didn’t she do? I should have been chief legal officer. Since my father’s on the board, he let slip the job was practically mine. Though I’d been at the Alliance longer than Skyler, the Maxwells conspired to steal my title. Next you know, she’s chief and I’m her errand boy.”
