His Lost Mate (A Steamy Paranormal Romance Novel)

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Author: Kathy Kulig
Tags: paranormal romance
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least a half dozen times since he picked her up at the airport, he acknowledged his attraction to the cute and intelligent blonde. He wouldn’t be human if he didn’t notice her big brown eyes and pouting lips, or how she filled out her T-shirt. He was a professional and could handle it.
    She was indeed a beauty and she was bright and ambitious, but he had to remember she was his student, even though she was only a few years younger than himself. Beneath her demure manner was a very sensual woman, he was certain. He wiped the sweat forming on his brow with the back of his hand.
    Justin and Kyle reached the bottom of the pyramid, ran over to Deven and dropped to the ground breathing heavily. They had more energy than three-year-olds.
    “Done with your marathon, gentlemen?” Deven asked.
    “For now,” Kyle answered between huge gulps of air. He rolled over flat on his back with his chest heaving. “I won.”
    “Cheated,” Justin groaned.
    * * *
    Lauren blindly ran toward the entrance of the tomb. With hands stretched out in front of her, she scratched knuckles and elbows along the stone walls.
    “Cimi, please…” he shouted after her. She was sure the voice was a man’s.
    Lauren hurried through the tunnel as fast as she could in the dark, intensely aware of the tingling sensation on her back and arms where she expected the man to grab her.
    She couldn’t be lost.
    Dr. Chandler said there were no other passageways. So where was the entrance? She strained to hear the man chasing her, but only heard her own footsteps and her labored breathing. Her chest hurt and she couldn’t catch her breath. Who was in here with her? How did he get in? Was there another entrance?
    Finally, she saw daylight, rushed out of the chamber and ran right into Dr. Chandler, nearly knocking him over.
    She tripped and landed on her hands and knees in the grass. Her breathing was rapid and shallow. She pointed to the tunnel and said, “Someone…someone’s in there. He touched me.”
    “Are you hurt?” Dr. Chandler asked, gripping her arm a bit too tightly.
    Lauren shook her head and tried to stop her body from shaking. A scowl rolled across his face. He grabbed his flashlight and ran into the tunnel with Justin and Kyle following behind him.

Chapter 2
     
    Lauren sat on the grass outside the chamber and squeezed her arms around her legs, but couldn’t stop shaking.
    Dr. Margaret Hughes, another professor, descended from the upper terraces of the North Acropolis, jogged toward Lauren and dropped down onto the grass. “Are you all right, dear?”
    “Someone touched me. And I heard a man’s voice.”
    Margaret studied her for a moment with a deep frown. The wind blew the older woman’s gray-white hair wildly around her face. “Someone followed you in there? But I saw Deven standing outside the whole time.”
    A few feet away, Sylvia folded her arms across her chest. “Not possible. I’ve been outside the tomb for two hours sketching the stela and haven’t seen anyone, but you go in. You probably imagined it.”
    “No, I felt something and I heard a voice,” Lauren snapped.
    Sylvia rolled her eyes and walked away toward the crumbling ruins on the north side of the plaza, sat on the grass covered terraces and began jotting notes on her iPad.
    Lauren turned to Margaret. “Do you think Dr. Chandler and the guys are okay in there? Maybe they shouldn’t have gone.”
    “I’m sure they’re fine. What did you see?”
    “Nothing, it was dark. Maybe there’s a space behind the wall and the man reached his hand through an opening—”
    “I’ve been in that chamber several times. It’s solid, no openings or secret passageways.”
    “Secret passages?”
    “It’s not unusual for pyramids and chambers to have secret passageways, but this one does not. I’m sure of it.”
    Lauren glanced at the chamber’s opening. “Then the man’s still in there.”
    “What did he say?”
    “It sounded like ‘Cimi’. Do you know what that

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