To Bite A Bear (11 page)
Authors: Amber Kell
Tags: #glbt, #shifter, #erotic romance, #gay, #Paranormal
“And if I don’t?”
“I’ll make your bear kill himself,” Theos said
confidently.
Rohan thought over the possibilities of where a
handful of sorcerers could take a vampire coven
and came up with a limited number of options. He
had no doubt they were down in the basement. He
flashed a look at Harris, who nodded. He hoped
they were both on the same page. It took a few
months of bonding before a vampire couple could
read each other’s’ minds; until then, they were at
the mercy of guessing.
“Go ahead,” Rohan said.
“I warned you,” Theos said. Rohan felt the
prickle of magic rush across him on its way to
Harris.
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Harris pulled out his pistol and pointed it to his
head.
“One last chance,” Theos said.
Has the inoculation worn off?
Maybe Harris
hadn’t really been given the shot. Doubts crowded
through Rohan’s head, but he did the one thing
Harris always claimed he could, he trusted Harris’
friends.
“Go ahead,” he dared.
Theos narrowed his eyes. Harris shot both of
the henchmen before turning his gun toward the
head sorcerer. Rohan had taken his gaze off the
sorcerer when Harris began shooting. He gasped
when he turned back. Theos was gone.
“He’ll be back,” Aden said. He human slid
through an open window as he spoke. “Sorcerers
are like cockroaches. The only time they’re truly
dead is when you have to scrape them off the
bottom of your shoe.”
Rohan wondered if the human had had a bad
experience with sorcerers in his past, but he didn’t
feel like he knew Aden well enough to ask.
“Thanks for your help.”
Aden nodded at Rohan with a bit of old-world
charm. “Always happy to help family. Your
vampires are in the basement. I suspect that most
if not all of them are innocent.”
“Thanks.” Rohan watched the human until
Aden had gone through the doors and completely
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vanished from sight. His father had always taught
him to not to take his eyes off the biggest predator
in the room.
“What do you say, love? Shall we go and rescue
your people?” Harris asked.
“They’re our people,” Rohan said. “And yes,
let’s go rescue them.”
Rohan took the arm Harris held out to him and
headed down the stairs where they did, indeed,
find all the vampires and humans alike. Rohan
couldn’t stop smiling. It had been a good day in
the end.
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Epilogue
den approached the filigreed casket. Gallen
A lay there still as death. He didn’t know why
he felt compelled to visit the sorcerer’s casket, but
he couldn’t help himself. A compulsion hit him
every time he came to visit Carey.
He couldn’t pass by the garden without
checking on the sorcerer lying there. He almost
felt sorry for the kid. After his stay in a sorcerer’s
dungeon, Aden harbored a deep hatred of the
species, but this sorcerer wasn’t like the others.
The kid was as much a victim as much as any of
their prisoners before, his life on hold while the
enchantment stayed in place.
“Hang tight, kid, I’ll see if I can find your
mate,” Aden whispered. For some reason, he
didn’t like the idea of anyone kissing Gallen. Not
that he was homophobic or anything. Hell, he was
bisexual himself but generally abstained from sex
of any kind. Sex led to relationships, which took
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away from his focus of watching over his boys and
taking special projects for the government.
He thought Gallen might become another kid
under his protection, but he didn’t feel paternal
toward this one. Instead, he wondered if Gallen’s
lips were as soft as they looked and if he was
breathing properly.
Aden sighed. He had another trip out of town
in the morning, his last one for a while. “I’m
getting too old.”
He knew soon he’d have to retire. He might still
be faster than most of the men his age but that
didn’t make him quicker than everyone else. Time
for Aden Gale to be put out to pasture before
someone buried him under one.
“See you later, kid,” Aden said. Impulsively, he
reached through the metalwork to stroke Gallen’s
cheek. “Fuck, I’m definitely too old for this.”
He turned and walked away, determined to
erase the image burning in his mind of a young
man, the age of his own son, and the odd, almost
overwhelming, need to kiss him.
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About the Author
Amber Kell lives in Seattle, WA with her husband,
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