Free Immortal Fire by Desconhecido(a) Page B

catsup on her fries,
slapping the bottle with the palm of one hand while she watched Donovan frown
over the map he studied. “Where are we going?”
     
    “Might as well be going to the
moon for all the sense I can make of this map,” he grumbled. He tossed the
crumpled paper aside and followed her movements instead. “What is that?”
     
    She laughed. “You’re kidding,
right? I don’t allow myself to eat this kind of food often, but when I do, it’s
heavenly. You can’t tell me you’ve lived in Boise all this time and never had a french fry.”
     
    “I’ve been here a few months.”
     
    She stuffed a few fries in her
mouth and slid the plate across to him. “Try them. Where are you from?”
     
    His eyebrow went up. “The
underworld, remember?”
     
    “Oh.” She couldn’t imagine anyone
choosing to live down there, or wherever it was in relation to the physical
world. She’d always felt oppressed when she died and had to check in with her
father. Maybe that was why his people wanted out.
     
    She suppressed a laugh as he
first smelled the fry and then took a tentative bite. His sexy eyes widened in
delight, and then he reached down, took a huge clump and stuffed them all into
his mouth. Kai burst out laughing.
     
    “Next best thing to sex, isn’t
it?” She giggled.
     
    He winked. “ Nothing comes close to what we did in the shower all night long,
baby.”
     
    A rush of warm feelings ran over
her, and she looked away to hide it from him.
     
    “But yes, it’s incredible. What I
have been missing down there is astounding. I never knew.” He muttered to
himself, cleaned her plate and raised his hand to order more. “We can’t stay
here long. Gethin will be hot on our trail. I need to
have you trained before we face him.”
     
    “Is he more powerful than you
are?” she wondered aloud.
     
    “Not exactly.” He retrieved the
map while he waited for his order and studied it again. “We have different abilities.
He wields magic like I said. The spells can slow me down, but not kill me. I am
a true immortal just as you are. However, there is someone more powerful than
you, someone who can defeat you and cast you into the abyss.” He seemed to
hesitate.
     
    “My father?”
     
    He nodded after some time. “I
know you don’t want to believe me, but—”
     
    “Oh, it’s not that I don’t want
to believe you. I already know what my father is like.” She sighed. “What I
find confusing is how you tell me my father is the one that hired you and Gethin to what, control me? But for what purpose? I’m no
one. He’s more powerful than I am. And he assigned Bevin to protect me.”
     
    “The weakest of the demons.”
     
    She defended her bodyguard. “He’s
good.”
     
    “He’s weak. The fools that have
come after you were losers to begin with. They had no real chance of
overthrowing Ove’s power even if they did succeed in
getting you banished to the abyss. Only a demon could do that, and they should
have realized no matter how many times they killed you, you’d only regenerate.”
He shook his head. “No, Ove kept you ‘protected’ up
until now, the right time.”
     
    She sighed, feeling lost.
Somewhere deep inside, she had always hoped that Ove could have some love for her, that they would develop a real father-daughter
relationship. Donovan hadn’t given her any proof of her father’s involvement,
but she couldn’t rule it out either. “What’s so special about now?”
     
    “Me.”
     
    She smirked. “Confident aren’t
you?”
     
    He grinned. “Always.” He reached over
the table and stroked a thumb across her lips. Her body had just an hour ago
healed of their night’s activities, and she was revved for more. He could meet
her need, and she could meet his. She kissed his thumb then drew it in between
her lips. Sucking lightly, she was amused at his sharp intake of breath. She’d
bet anything he was hard beneath the table.
     
    “Our mission?” she reminded