His cock pressed hard against her perfect ass, a deliberate move on his part. He was still horny as hell, and feeling her ass against him, holding her to his chest, well, it was the closest thing to relief he was going to get.
He had to suffer the indignity of riding behind her.
But at least he got the benefit of her soft body.
And when the ride was long, he sure as hell did enjoy her.
Maya had no trouble finding 208 Mythlin Street. The bike bounced down the old pothole-filled road. Drove past the ramshackle buildings. Stopped at the two-story brick house that was nearly hidden by twisted trees.
Maya parked her bike and they stepped onto the broken sidewalk. It wasn’t quite midnight, but the yard was full of people. Men, women. All dressed in white.
Five tall, muscled men with skin a deep brown and bodies humming with tension, immediately walked toward them.
Maya raised her hand. “I’m here to see the Mambo.”
Mambo.
The word was familiar to him. He struggled, trying to remember where he’d heard it before.
The men looked back toward the house. Silence stretched across the yard.
“Maya.” A whisper. Could have been the wind. Could have been a woman’s voice. Adam wasn’t sure, but the men stepped back, eased into the shadows.
He stared at the house then. It wasn’t like the others on the street. No disrepair. No neglect. Strong bricks. Long, wraparound porch. White windows open to the night.
The house didn’t belong on this road.
There was something off about the place. About the people who watched them walk forward and whispered quietly, their eyes knowing.
Lights burned brightly from inside the house.
The porch steps creaked as Maya climbed them. She didn’t look nervous. Hell, so far, he hadn’t seen her look nervous at all, not even when the L10 had gone after her.
But he was getting a bad feeling. Every instinct went on full alert as his body tensed.
The front door was open. Waiting.
Inviting?
Maya stepped over the threshold.
Adam froze.
He glanced down and saw the red dust. The thin line that went all the way across the entranceway.
Shit.
Mambo.
Maya glanced back at him, brows lifted.
His jaw locking, Adam gritted, “This Marie, just what is she?” Why had Maya wanted so badly to see her?
The power from the house, from Marie, swept around him.
Hell, no.
Josette’s power had been weak, but she’d still sensed his deception.
This woman, Marie—she was too strong for him to fool.
A man’s laugh rang from the darkness.
Maya wet her lips. Her own gaze fell to the line of dust. “Don’t you know?”
Yeah, he did.
The woman was a voodoo priestess.
Sonofabitch.
“Let’s get out of here.” His skin was prickling, the hair on his nape rising.
“No, you don’t understand.” She leaned back over that line. “Marie knows things. She might be able to tell us which vampires took Cammie.”
“Yeah, and we can also just go and find some feeding rooms and start kicking ass until we round up the vamps who know.” Going into the mambo’s house—that wasn’t an option for him.
And he didn’t want Maya out of his sight.
A half-smile curved her lips. “That’s plan B, Slick. The slow plan. For Plan A, I wanna see what Marie knows.”
A growl rumbled in his throat. The men around them slipped back even further into the shadows.
Shit. This hadn’t been part of his plan. “Next time, you go over Plan A with me, fucking thoroughly, before you act.” When she went in the house, he wouldn’t be able to protect her.
And since when did she need protecting? He shook his head, but couldn’t shake the feeling that he needed to watch over her.
Bullshit. Utter bullshit.
Maya didn’t need anyone’s protection.
So why did he want to shield her?
“Go in,” he finally snarled, fighting to control the rage coursing through his veins. He’d never be able to cross that red line, but if he sensed any trouble, if he so much as heard Maya cry out—
He’d tear the house down.
Then no damn magic line would keep him out.
The beast within him began to roar.
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