Page 87 of Sapphire Flame
He chuckled. Slowing in the air, he directed the wolves into her garden though he drew back just enough and landed easily beyond the shrubs and not far from the canal. There were no tourist boats visible either, though she could hear one in the distance.
He drew her behind a shrub and pulled her into his arms. “Have I told you how proud I am of you, of what you accomplished at Neil’s and how you performed just now at The Sapphire Club? You were outstanding. I mean it, Natalie.”
“I could say the same, Grant. I reached a point where I knew Kryder’s fae had blocked us up completely in the future. I still don’t know how we escaped.”
He grinned again and drew her tighter against him. “I was just faster than the fae’s ability to read the future.”
“I like it when you’re fast.” The nearness of him, the wonderful sweet lumberyard smell of him, had her wolf doing somersaults.
“I’ll go fast for you, as long as you want, as long as you can take it.”
He kissed her and, for just a sliver of time, the world as well as its incessant cares and worries, vanished like smoke rising high into the atmosphere. All she felt, all she knew was the strength of this man’s arms around her, holding her tight, promising security at least for the moment.
A tourist boat rounded the bend in the canal not far from her house. The sound of the quiet motor was a soft, putt-putt drone that had Grant pulling away from her.
“It’s very peaceful here.” He drew her deeper into the shadows.
Natalie had placed the garden lights in such a way that she had few places on her canal-front property that gave her privacy.
He kissed her again, only this time his hands wandered in the nicest way.I love the feel of your lips, Grant. Like heaven.
His kisses pushed at her and she smiled because she knew what he wanted. She parted her lips. But when his tongue entered her mouth, her knees gave way.
He caught her tight against him, however, and kept her upright. The man had a way about him that made her legs refuse to hold her up. He’d have her on her back in a few more seconds if she didn’t stop him. But she really didn’t want to.
Her wolf had already started responding and her right hand slid to the nape of his neck urging him.
We should go somewhere.His deep resonant voice in her mind had her breathing harder still.
But her wolf sounded a quiet warning. She drew back and shifted her head, looking through her wolf’s eyes. She saw a familiar aura.Kryder’s fae is looking at us in the future.
The aura vanished, however, the moment Grant released her. “Was she here?” he asked.
She felt his sudden anger boil off his skin in waves.
“No,” she said quietly. “It was a remnant of a recent search. She may have been tracking our location in the future. No doubt Kryder knows we’re here by now.”
“Ryan,” he all but shouted.
His voice brought the tourists in the boat craning their necks in the direction of their hidden spot.
“Let’s get back to the house,” she said.
He slid an arm around her waist and just as together they moved toward her back gate, Ryan and three of his men landed in front of them.
“Yes, Boss.” Ryan had a fierce, wild look about him. All the wolves on the property were warriors. Not one of them was under six-foot. Each was muscled like Grant. Ryan was the shortest but had to be six-two.
“We may have had an intruder, an invisible type. I want the men flying overhead in quick unpredictable patterns and patrolling the perimeter in the same way. Let’s keep our visitors on their toes even if we can’t see them.”
Ryan nodded to the three men. They disappeared but as they entered the property, each man gathered a group of three more warriors and before long, the entire house looked like a stage for war games.
Natalie approved.
The tourists did as well, since they started applauding from the boat.
Ryan opened the gate for them.
“What food have you got coming in?” Grant asked. “We both need a meal, especially Natalie. But I want the men fed as well.”
