Dangerous (Courting the Darkness Saga) Read Free

sitting here in front of me, so just spit it out.”
    “You know my situation,
Sherry.” She nodded. “Word of my true age leaked out. My former landlady
snooped through my things and discovered that I was a hundred and twenty-five
year old witch and started running her trap.” Sherry’s mouth dropped open as
Desiree continued. “About a week ago I received a summons for a command
appearance from Drake Bouvier, the local vampire king.” Desiree laughed. “You
know me. I tried to get out of it.” Sherry smiled. “Drake sent one of his
guards to hunt me down.”
    “So this vampire king,
Drake, sent Mica after you?”
    She chuckled. “Yes and
no.” Sherry inclined her head for her to continue. “Mica is not one of Drake’s
guards. Drake sent his guard Sean after me. Believe me, at the time, Sean was
intimidating as hell.”
    “So, what did this
Drake want from you?”
    “What he wanted had to
do with the phone call I made to you that night. Drake wanted me to cast a
spell so that they could withstand the sunlight.”
    Her mouth dropped open again.
“Desiree, that’s not possible.”
    “Sherry, as the leader
of our coven, haven’t I always taught you that with magic, anything is
possible?”
    “Yes, but it’s never
been done.”
    “Desiree has done just
that,” Mica said.
    “Okay, I’m confused. If
Mica’s not Drake’s guard, then how did you two meet?”
    “Drake didn’t give me
much choice about casting that spell for him, but I somehow convinced him to
let me go back to my apartment to get my things. I was all packed and ready to
go when Jason Hargrove, the witch hunter, snuck up behind me and knocked me out
with chloroform.” Sherry’s mouth dropped open again as
Desiree continued. “Jason trussed me up like a Thanksgiving turkey and
carted me off to Salem to burn.”
    “Oh my God, Desiree…how
did Jason find you?”
    “Again, I blame my nosy
landlady. Drake sent Mica and his friend Caleb to rescue me.”
    “Is Caleb a vampire
too?”
    She shook her head. “No,
Caleb’s a shape-shifter. I’ve seen him turn into a ferret and a black panther.”
    Sherry noticed how
close they were sitting next to each other, and she smiled. “It looks like it
must have been love at first sight.”
    Mica laughed at her
assumption. Desiree flushed and laughed lightly. “Hardly,” Desiree said. She
glanced up and winked at Mica. “Oh, I admit there was a mutual attraction from
the start, but in the beginning I was afraid of him. He was moody as hell and became
angry because he thought I was judging him because he was a vampire. Not to
mention the fact that he wasn’t looking for a relationship.” She shrugged
helplessly. “Sherry, you know me. I don’t like to be ignored.”
    Sherry laughed in
agreement, shaking her head. “Okay, what took you so long to get back?”
    “Mica wanted to flush
Jason out, so we hid in the Forbidden Caverns for a few days.”
    “So you two took the
advantage of being alone with no interference.”
    Desiree flushed again, then cleared her throat. “Hardly.”
    Sherry raised an
eyebrow at that. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
    “I mean it wasn’t all
smooth sailing. Caleb was attracted to me too.” Sherry’s mouth dropped open yet
again. “Caleb is not one to take a straight no for an answer.”
    “Did they fight over
you?”
    “Yes and no.”
    “Okay, I’m confused
again.”
    Mica laughed. Desiree
cleared her throat. “Caleb took off to a bar and got drunk. While he was there
he managed to find an unusual drinking partner.” Sherry nodded for her to
continue. “Caleb didn’t know he was partying with Jason Hargrove.”
    Sherry rolled her eyes.
“My God, girl, what happened then?”
    “I cast that spell for
Drake, and gave an amulet to Mica. The spell worked beautifully. Caleb came
back from his binge and was acting weird. We all went to a truck stop to take
showers and Jason started stalking us. We hurried back to the cavern, only to discover
that