Vampire Acadamy Series

g up the phone with Cade,

is

es from the city, and Rydstrom was still more than half an

d, built up levee-style through the bayou. He was cruising at an easy hundred an

id something impulsive. He didn't think even C

certain that Cade wouldn't just run of

le was Cade's mate? Yes. But

attainable becaus

rence between Rydstrom rec

he idea of liberating his country, working to see h

any rebellions crushed, the o

resting in...Cade's hands. Whic

are rage demon who never lost his temper. Except with Cade-who knew how to push his b

is brother as a towheaded pup of seven, still with his baby horns, following him around, hero-worshipping him. Rydstrom

ight thing now, that hope

d first seen Holly, Rydst

Tulane campus. The son wasn't merely experimenting at passing as a human. The young male had actu

me, without the "shameful secret" getting o

To each his own. However, his overriding outlook was more alon

action went smoothly. On the way to the son's dorm, they'd passe

ready to ridicule. "

er that he'd never been educated like other royals because he'd been fostered out. For him, there'd been no higher

ts like those among Cade's possessions. His brother, the

rd. "Now, that's a fine bit of grumble and grunt, yeah?" Rydstrom could swe

uttoned-up, with glasses, no makeup, and her hair pulled back in a tight bun. She'd been brimming with a q

," Rydstrom had said. Both of them stood o

ted the auditorium, he'd called to her, "Come here, little bi

s narrowed, pushing up her glass

atching in grim fascination, like a bystander who saw the

doubt expected this one to heed him. Instead, she'd stood

ance to her as if helpless not to. "

ated, "Wha

ushing at his own stammering attempts to talk to her. At one point, he'd blatantl

ke he intended to undo her hair, and she'd looked as if she'd

rl had pivoted on her

had looked back over his shoulder. In a crushed tone,

r. Just last week, Rydstrom had caught him kicked back on a downtown roof with a

th, have offspring with, know real happiness with, but Rydstr

r his people. W

m in the headlights. N

of control. Just when he was about to right the vehicle, a brid

moving, he grasped his h

ched over cement littered with glass, chunks

taled. The right side of his car was comp

eyes wide with fear, long red hai

ion he'd come. "Is someone her

at least twenty-five miles away. He fis

he screen read

ight of her farther along this deser

e doing all the way

moment, he caught her

n to feel drea

eve his hat-with her otherworldly beauty, he

were dark as night. A gown of the palest blue silk clung to her lush curves. W

Had he ever been so instantly an

ring along the r

Are you a

im but continue

called, following. "Do

p," she said, he

cared much in the past, but with her...the idea of seeing her disgust made him

er her. "Do you

once more, ducking behind a

ity, but then I can come back to help you." And get all your

on to her seemed too powerful, her looks too alluring to be real. She had high cheekbone

ping his hand in her two small ones, she kissed his palm with

he kneaded her flesh with a low groan. The promise of pleasure blazed

e murmured in a siren's v

want to give it to you,

ther hand and placed it hi

He had responsibilities. But I'

r hands to his horns, boldly grasping the

ered from the savage thrill, bowing his head as she bade him

n with her. Maybe e

erienced, urging him on, meeting every thrust of his tongue, teasing h

er. "I...can't do this now. I have

ling closer to him. "Here. Under this tre

throbbing. He could scarcely withstand

the king's. "No. I have obligations," he bit out, hati

ws drew together. "Then you

he road began disappearing, as though the eart

a clang like the door of a jail cell slamming s

of Illusions." She'd opened a portal into a dungeon,

ood, Ry

their quest to get that sword. Rydstrom hadn't known the sorcerer's sister

rumors we

e treacherous than ei

aybe this wasn't her true likeness at all. She'd probably given him exac

ver her breasts and lower. "I'm so

ised her for it. "Why have y

ted his gaze to a bed in the center of the cell. It was unco