Devilish Game (Shadow Guild: The Rebel 4)

I tried to feel for it, that powerful connection that linked us together.

I came up empty.

“I don’t think we reignited the mate bond,” I said. “So we should be safe.”

Please let us be safe.

What was it that the blood sorceress had said? I couldn’t fall for him? I still hadn’t. Last night had been just sex. Well, not just sex. But almost just sex. It would be okay. Maybe he wouldn’t even remember it.

10

Carrow

He totally remembered it. I could see it in his eyes when I spotted him outside of the entrance to Seraphia’s library an hour later. He stood next to the door and I was all the way across the street, but his expression was clear as day.

“What’s he doing here?” Mac murmured from her spot next to me.

“No idea.” Liar.

We hadn’t agreed to meet, so his arrival was, of course, confusing for Mac.

For me?

No surprise there.

His gaze flickered over me, concern glinting in the icy depths, warming them. I drew in a deep breath and strode up to him, having no idea what I would say but determined not to hide.

Mac, as if her radar were beeping, lingered back to give us some space.

Grey towered against the small door that led into the library, his gaze on me. Concern etched lines around his mouth and darkened his eyes. “It was real.”

I nodded. “It was real.”

“I didn’t . . .” He dragged a hand through his hair, unable to find words. “I didn’t realize. Are you all right?”

“I’m fine.” Warmth heated my cheeks.

“Are you sure? I was—”

Rough. Passionate. Desperate.

The words flitted through my mind, but I shoved them away. “I’m fine. Why are you here?”

His brows shot up. “Why am I here?”

“Yeah. We should be staying apart. I want to be staying apart.” Another lie.

“You were there, too,” he said. “In the dream. So I know that’s a lie.”

“It was just sex.” Even as I said the words, I knew they were also a lie. There was no way that could have been just sex.

No way in hell.

I met his gaze anyway, pasting my face in hard lines, lips flat and pressed together. “It was just sex, Grey. Some crazy dream magic. But the bond isn’t reignited, so we need to stay away from each other.”

He nodded, something unidentifiable in his eyes. “Right. Of course.”

“Good. I’m glad we have that settled. I thought it was just a dream, but apparently it wasn’t. Now that we know, we won’t do it again.”