Running in Fear: New Beginnings Jubilee by Trinity Blacio Read Free Book Online Page B

more. “I owe you an apology Lissa, and I can’t give you a proper one if you’re not talking to me. I was told, no correction, I was ordered to inform you that Queen Isabel would like to have lunch with you next week. She knows that you and the other women want to have a nice Christmas party and she thought it might be a wonderful time to introduce you to our people. To open the door, allowing what will take place.”
    Very slowly Lissa sat up in the tub and gazed around the room. “I’ll talk to Jaycee, but won’t it be risky opening the door since we know some of your people are helping the other side? They could slip in here.”
    He shook his head. “They are already here, at least one of them is. How else would they know that you would show up looking for the doctor? No, I believe if we open the door it would be better. Plus, I don’t really think many will leave their home. I’m afraid even the Goddess and her sister won’t be able to keep it from ‘our’ people soon.” He lifted her swollen hand and kissed it. “Do you know who betrayed you?”
    Tears filled her eyes, and she drew her knees up to her chest, nodding. “But it can’t be, Nikola, she wouldn’t do this. She just found her mate. What they did to her, to all of us…It can’t be Della.”
    “Come here Lissa.” He picked her up and sat her on his lap. “We’ll find out who it is. You’re very lucky you’re alive. They were only playing with you.”
    She rested her head on his chest. “Are we going to live here or at the palace?”
    Castor leaned over and kissed her cheek. “Nikola has agreed, we’ll fix this place up and live here. We’ll use the palace for guests, special occasions, and meetings, but we also want our privacy. We will be required to stay there occasionally, but our main home will be here.”
    Lissa reached up and pulled Castor down, trying to kiss his lips, but flinched. “Sorry, guess I’m not fully healed.”
    “Sweetheart don’t apologize for someone attacking you.” Castor stood and the water dripped down his muscular form, as Nikola’s gaze met Castor’s. “Come, Lissa you need to feed and I know you want to see the babies.”
    “Are the babies and Jaycee okay?” Lissa looked at him, worried.
    “She’s fine and so are the little ones.” He rose out of the tub, Lissa leaned over and ran her tongue over his nipple, licking the drop of water off him.
    “I didnt attack those women, Nikola.” He tilted his head and frowned at her.
    “What are you talking about? They broke out with Poison Ivy all over them, no one else could have done this.” He took the towel from Castor, drying her body, careful of the injuries.
    She shook her head. “Remember when we were all in the forest and the plants wrapped around us? When you guys, well, you know.”
    Nikola laughed and squeezed her ass. “Silly, you mean when they made us come?”
    Lissa’s face turned a nice shade of pink and she nodded. “Well, when that happened the plants adopted you more or less. Any threat to you or me and they will attack. They considered both women a threat to our joining. I have a feeling we were lucky they didn’t do worse.”
    Clothing her in a long skirt and sweater, Nikola groaned. “This isn’t good Lissa. We can’t have these plants attacking every female that comes near us. They didn’t attack Jaycee?”
    Lissa pulled the sweater off her and replaced it with a silk blouse. “Sorry, but the sweater was sticking and it itched.” She smiled and tried to button her shirt, but her fingers wouldn’t work right.
    He pushed her hands away and started to button her shirt. “They aren’t going to attack someone who isn’t a threat Nikola. You know damn well what those two were trying to do. If Adonis hadn’t caught me when the blond bimbo pushed me out of the way, I would have landed on my ass,” She said, trying to brush his hands away.
    Clothing him the way his people did, Nikola shook his head. “I didn’t see