Free Seducing Eve (Guardians of Atlantis) by Michelle Miles Page A

and his mouth took on an unpleasant twist. When only moments ago that mouth had ravaged her entire body. “She’s with child, yes, but willingly.”
    “Oh, so she allowed them to knock her up without a fight?” She tossed the foil package to the side and stood, her hands clenched. She had to crane her neck to look up at him losing most of her threat. But she was determined not to allow his size intimidate her. “I’m not going to let them do that to me, Lucian. I’m a free woman. I’m an American. And I’m going home.”
    “Relax.” He grasped her upper arms. “You don’t understand. Eden and Sabre are together. A couple. She loves him. He loves her.”
    “That’s supposed to make it all okay? Did he kidnap her too?”
    His expression was one of tight strain. “No. He met her on the beach topside.”
    “And that’s where they ‘fell in love’?” She did air quotes, knowingly mocking him. Mocking his commander.
    “It is, actually,” Lucian said, his face serious and his eyes hard.
    This Eden person was really here of her own accord. She wanted to be here.
    “Sabre is keeping Eden in hiding from Franco so he won’t take the baby. Or her,” Lucian said.
    “Oh.” She didn’t know what else to say. How did Eden get down here? The same way Eve had? She had to know. “How was I brought here? Why didn’t I drown or get decompression sickness?”
    “Because you were injected with a serum to allow your lungs to breath under water. It also kept you from getting decompression sickness by allowing your body to automatically adjust.”
    So she had been stabbed with a syringe. She hadn’t imagined that after all. Mystery solved though she wasn’t wild about the idea of being injected with this strange serum.
    “ And Eden stayed here willingly?” she asked again. She was having a hard time believing it.
    “ Yes. She wanted to come back with him.”
    She bit off an acid retort. He wasn’t going to take her home. He wasn’t going to let her escape. What the hell was she going to do?
    “So, I have no choice?”
    “No. I’m sorry.”
    All the air went out of her lungs, like she’d been deflated. “What about Abby?”
    “She’s still in the lab.”
    “You have to get her out of there,” Eve insisted. “I can’t leave her there.”
    “I can’t remove another woman from the lab without Franco knowing. Going back there is suicide.”
    She hated him for saying that. “But she’s my best friend. And she’s…soft. She’s not as strong as I am. She’ll do whatever they say because she’s non-confrontational.”
    “Then she’ll be allowed to live.”
    Eve didn’t like that response. She clenched her jaw. “If you won’t help me then I’ll…I’ll…” She didn’t know what she’d do.
    “You’ll what? Go after her? No. Not going to happen, Eve. They’ll kill you on sight. You’re a fugitive.”
    “Well so are you,” she snapped.
    “Right. That’s why we have to get to northside before we’re caught.”
    Eve didn’t want to go to northside. She didn’t want to do anything but get home. Despite her attraction to Lucian. She was about to tell him so when men burst into their small room. Gunfire exploded all around them. She ducked. Lucian dove toward her, pushing her out of the line of fire. There wasn’t really any place to go and they huddled against the back wall as guardians entered, guns drawn.
    One of them she recognized immediately. The one with the tattoo on the side of his neck. The one who kidnapped her on the beach. Kane.
    Eve looked up at Lucian, fear gnawing at her gut. He met her gaze. Her lips parted to tell him Kane was here. But he gave one quick shake of his head. He looked back at the men guarding them, his gaze landing on Kane. Then narrowed.
    He knew. He knew and she didn’t even have to tell him.
    Lucian stood completely still, glaring at the men in front of them. His shoulder leaked blood and she could see where the shot had burned his tunic to his skin.