be love, so soon after Adam? Was that possible?
My heart said yes. But my head told me to wait a little longer before I voiced it. Because when I did, I wanted it to be special. Not now when Rodán was missing and I was so worried. Later, when the time was right.
Right now while I was with Colin he helped me put aside my fears for Rodán, if only for that short window of time.
When it was time to leave I secured my weapons belt and pulled my boots on. Colin gave me a deep, sensual kiss before we left my apartment and entered the night.
ELEVEN
Instead of racing me to our destination—a race Colin always won—he took my hand. It was like I had blinked once and then we were there.
I’d never experienced anything like it. No pain, no getting sick from the transference. We were standing at my front door and the next thing I knew we were in the darkness in front of the Nymphs’ apartment building on Fortieth Street.
“No wonder you always beat me in a race,” I said as he released my hand. “Dragons are handy to have around.”
He kissed the top of my head. We moved to the side of the building, where we’d arranged to meet the others. Joshua and Ice were already there. Desmond showed up not a minute later.
I rested my hand on the hilt of my sheathed Dragon-clawed dagger. “We’re going to take these guys in. They have something to do with Rodán’s disappearance, and we’re going to get it out of them,” I said. “But first we’ll go in and observe. We need to know if they’re Vampires or just a couple of Goth Vamp players.”
I made a sign with my fingers. “This means subdue and arrest if they’re not Vampires.” I made another sign. “No holds barred. Do whatever it takes to take down the Vamps, without killing them.”
I made sure everyone had silver handcuffs blessed with holy water along with garlic disks. I’d brought a couple of garlic-and-holy-water “grenades” recently designed for Vampires. It would be like throwing a smoke bomb into a room full of humans. The rest of us would smell like an Italian restaurant but the Vampires should feel pretty crappy with lungs full of garlic and holy water.
Colin and I cloaked ourselves in glamours. Desmond had worked with me on mine after the Zombie incident so I could now hide from most paranorms, too.
Nymphs wouldn’t be able to see me for sure. I figured it had something to do with their one-track minds and their nature. Nymphs are happy and horny, completely sanguine. They’re not a suspicious race of beings. Quite the opposite.
The Vampires had once been human so they definitely wouldn’t be able to see me, a huge plus.
Joshua shifted into a shadow, and Ice chose his white mouse form. Desmond would hide somewhere in the apartment. As long as I had a hold of him he would remain hidden behind my glamour, but I needed to have my hands free once we were inside.
I looked at the time on my phone then shoved it back into its holster on my weapons belt. “The Nymphs should be home in about twenty minutes.”
In shadow form, Joshua slid through the crack beneath the door. A moment later the locks rattled and the door squeaked open.
The Nymphs’ apartment was just as messy now as it had been earlier. Clothing was scattered on the floor. Two pizza boxes were on one end table, and several tubes of lipstick in various shades sat on the other. Six cans of soda were on the glass-topped coffee table, a straw sticking out of one of the cans, bright red lipstick on the end of the straw.
Colin glanced around. “Shouldn’t be too hard to find a hiding spot.”
I stepped over a hairbrush, a tube of toothpaste, a rolling pin, and a pair of stockings. I got why stockings would be on the floor in the living room, but I didn’t get the hairbrush or the toothpaste, much less the rolling pin. Truthfully, I didn’t want to know.
Colin faded behind his glamour—not even paranorms could see through it—while Joshua and Ice took their positions. Desmond climbed over stacks of clothing and shoes on the floor of the coat closet and hid in there. Old standbys like coat closets were always handy.
I chose a corner where I could get a good view of everything and leaned up against the wall.
It wasn’t too