Opal (Rare Gems Series Book 4) by Kathi S. Barton Read Free Book Online

now, I’d be more afraid of you than of some faceless stranger. But he has it under control, he said. Sloan said that he’d explain tonight, after the sun was down just a little more. The guy looked like…he was as angry as I’ve ever seen him. He had to…I’m assuming he had to go and see to Opal. He also told me that it’s too late for them to get their union dissolved.” She nodded, slightly embarrassed. “So it’s true? He had mated and bonded with her. Did he hurt her, you think?”
    “ No, I don’t think so. In fact, I would say that he didn’t do anything that she didn’t want. Or both of them wanted. She hates him, but I think she hates herself more. I didn’t get a lot from her, but I have a feeling she’s not taking this as well as I’d think she should.” She glanced at the pictures. “I think if she saw those, she’d have a better understanding of how far he went to save her. I wonder how he got them, this person. I wonder how he managed to take these pictures and not help them when she was hurt.”
    “ I don’t know. Sloan said he had an idea, but he never shared it. And he said she was never to see them. In fact, I was supposed to burn them after I saw them.” Sapphire knew he’d kept them for her to see, and she’d do the same for Opal. She had to know what had really happened in Paris and how much trouble she’d been in.
    “ And this destruction from today…this is the same man? Do you think that he came here to get her and was pissed that she wasn’t here? By the way, what happened to you?” He lifted his shirt up and she saw the long mark on his chest. It looked like something out of a nightmare and she went to him. “Who did this? That man?”
    “ Yeah, I think he lashed out before thinking about it. Lucky for me, I wasn’t alone when we came upon him. Justine was here getting something for the client that Opal had helped me with. We sort of heard him trashing Opal’s room. Don’t ask me how he got in because I have no idea. But there he was coming out of her room when I went to find a drawing Opal had done for me with the logo you and she were working on. He looked…well, he looked like he thought it funny that I’d caught him. Almost like…I told Sloan this, but he looked like he was relieved that I caught him.” Blair shivered and stood up. “He said he was glad to see me again. I had no idea what he was talking about until he lashed out at me. I fell back and the next thing I knew, Sloan was there fighting him. I think he might be hurt, too, but he was suddenly gone and I was picking my ass up off the floor. Do you suppose this guy, this other vampire, is the one that Rufus was talking about a few weeks ago?”
    She didn ’t know, but she was going to find out. The first thing she did was contact her other sisters. Then she called in the other troops. It was war time and she had a family to protect. The moment this bastard had touched what was hers, he was as good as vampire tar-tar.

    Chapter 4
     
    Fletcher woke with a start. He knew that he wasn’t in his lair, but where he was—at the moment anyway—eluded him. Then he remembered with full clarity and smiled. Sitting up, he looked around the blood-soaked room. He’d been very busy and he felt wonderful for it.
    “ You should really clean up after each meal. This room reeks of death.” He grinned bigger when he saw his friend and sometimes lover come out of the shadows. “You’ve been playing at God again?”
    “ No. I’ve been playing at being Him. Create, then murder. Isn’t that the way we’re supposed to do this shit?” He stretched his naked body and wrapped his hand around his semi-hard cock. “Come over here and let me fuck you.”
    “ I’m not in the mood for you to get your jollies off while I get nothing. But I brought you a treat.” Fletcher pouted but didn’t stop what he was doing. He knew Marvin and also knew that mood or not, he’d suck his dick if he wanted him to. When the