Twice Tempted: Between Two Alphas (Mia and Cameron) novel Chapter 49

Chapter Forty-Nine

MIA

“Cam!? What the hell are you doing here!?”

Cameron stands behind a table loaded with pastries and fruit and crepes. He walks toward me and he looks lethal.

The Ravens give him room and Corinne and Theo have already moved to sit at the head of the table.

“So much for a girls’ trip,” Rachel mutters as she abandons me.

I catch several other people–creatures?--but my attention is glued to Cameron.

He comes at me like a linebacker. One second my feet are on the ground, the next I’m up against his chest and held tight. He barrels out of the courtyard, through that trellised bridge and out into the front square.

“Cam, stop. Put me down.”

He keeps moving.

“Cam!” I hit his shoulder.

When he finally sets me down at the far end of the square near where we came in, his green eyes are furious. “Don’t you ever pull a fucking stunt like that again.”

Nala growls.

I shove out of his arms. “I’m not bait. Or an experiment. Or some object. You don’t own me.”

I’m still angry over what he allowed Dr. Glass to do. Although, if I’m being fair, I don’t think either of us were really expecting her to just jab me.

“I’m not yours anymore, Cam.”

He grabs my arms.

The next second his mouth is on mine and he’s kissing me.

It’s a dark kiss, desperate.

He stops for the briefest instant. “Mia.”

His scent and strength begin to wear me down. But it’s that sharp, slight scent of fear that takes the fight out of me. He was afraid–for me.

The minute I kiss him back, his whole body shudders. He murmurs my name.

Then I’m held even tighter even as his hands are tugging and skimming over my body.

“Get a room,” someone yells.

We both jerk apart and see on the second floor a huddle of–vampires?!--watching us. Their scent and movements give them away.

The female shrugs. “We love a good show. But you’re loud. And it’s our bedtime.”

Right. Night creatures.

They don’t seem bothered by the sunlight though.

I don’t see any burning flesh or peeling skin.

The brunette female and her companions, another beautiful woman and a bearded man, all three stroll back into one of the many rooms lining that balcony.

I don’t take my eyes off the vamps, even after the door closes behind them. Eric’s lands were attacked by them. We’ve patrolled our lands and the surrounding human cities to keep them in check.

Vampires are our enemies.

“What is this place?” I ask him.

“It’s like nowhere else you’ve ever been,” he says, staring pointedly.