Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties 1)

The phone starts ringing immediately, but I just stare blankly at the number I can't answer. I have to know what he's going to do though. Using my magic, I wave my hand over the phone to listen to the man who doesn’t know I can hear him as the phone starts ringing again.

"Damn it. She won't fucking answer!" he blares to someone.

"Who do you think is after her?" Deke asks.

I'm sure they're all telling him to stay the hell away from me. As much as it kills me to think of, I hope he listens to them.

"I don't know, but she needs to be protected. She thinks I could get hurt."

Deke laughs,

and I hear Kane cursing again as the phone lights up and rings once more.

"That's a rather nifty trick," Thad says, now realizing what I've done.

"It'll only work until he calls someone else," I murmur softly.

"What are you going to do?" Deke asks.

"I'm going to find her, and then I'm going to beat the fuck out of whoever is messing with her. I'm not going to leave her side again, and so help me, if you call for my help one more time with that fucking bitch, I'll never talk to you again."

Amy? His business was Amy?

My anger takes the place of my tears as fury runs through me.

"I'm sorry," Deke exasperates. "You're the only one who has any influence over her when she loses it. It's just… you and this Alyssa girl spending so much time together is making Amy crazy. Maybe it's good if she goes off on her own. Amy needs all of us, and it appears you're the one she needs the most."

It's nice to know this now. At least it makes this easier.

"Amy can go to hell for all I care. Sierra wanted a pet, she can train her. I'm not her fucking leash-handler anymore. In case you haven't noticed, I happen to give a damn about someone else who needs me a hell of a lot more than Amy. She's her own worst enemy, and Alyssa is just a fragile girl.”

Fragile girl? Really?

I'll show him fragile the next time I see him… if I can even stand to be around him.

"Call the detective and find out what he knows," Kane urges.

"I can, but-"

"Fuck it. I'll call him myself."

Just like that, the conversation is lost when he apparently does call someone else, ending the bit of magical influence I had.

I hand the phone back to Thad, and he sighs as he puts it back in his pocket.

"I'm sorry you had to do that, but it's for the best," Thad murmurs sympathetically.

"As you heard, it sounds like it was the best for more than one reason."

I fight back the furious tears that try to fall. I can't believe I was so gullible, so stupid.

"I'm not sure what you mean. It's sounds like some psychotic girl has a fatal attraction to him, but he wants you."

It sounds like he'll always go running in to save her.

"I'd like to show him fragile," I grumble.

"Now that was a little funny. He just doesn't know any better. Mortal men think most girls are fragile," he chuckles out.