Chapter 44

Where her face revealed her thoughts, Evan’s did not. Where her body was soft and pliant, Evan’s was firm and strong. Yet the biggest difference was in the way they kissed. A kiss from Elissa was enchanting, but a kiss from Evan was soulful and dangerous. It was the stark difference between kissing a vampire and kissing a sorcerer. One used her feminine charms, while the other used the magic coursing through his cursed veins. A knock on the door snapped both of them from their mutual trance.

“Come in,” Loren muttered.

Elissa frowned in frustration.

“My lord,” Karl said. “We have just received word from our sentries. Evan, Morgan, and Will were spotted outside Cardiff, heading for the sorcerer’s old tower.”

Elissa merely sat on her heels with the look of a cat who had cornered a mouse. A grin played at her lips, wrought in triumph and steeped in hate.