“This isn’t… you’re not that gifted, Davy.”
I pierced her eyes. I wanted her to feel me deep inside, so deep that she’d never feel privacy again. “Maybe I’ve never been this furious before. Maybe I never had a reason to do what I can do now. She was like a mother, Kates. She was like my mother!”
She wanted to deny what I said. She wanted to not believe me, but it didn’t matter. “Are you going to tell me who Lucan is? Or am I going to go inside of you and figure it out myself?”
She blanched at my meaning. A cruel smile curved at the corners of my mouth. I wanted to see her squirm some more.
“I’m Lucan.” I heard the answer, but it came from the doorway.
I swung my gaze and stopped short. He was Roane’s complete double. He had the same coal eyes that held too many promises. Some of those promises sent shivers down my back. It was the same angular cheekbones, strong jaw line, and full plump lips that begged to be touched. He even had the same cocky, yet saddened, shrug to his muscular shoulders. They were strong shoulders. Both of them stood the same. Confident. Leaders. Sure that their way was the right way.
Except, there were differences too. Roane kept his hair buzzed short. Lucan wore his black hair sleek and straight to where it touched the tips of his shoulders. I watched as he lifted a graceful hand and tucked it behind one ear and knew that was his habit.
Kates watched in yearning and her hand jerked. She wanted to be the one to tuck that strand of hair behind his ear.
“She loves you.”
Kates jerked her gaze to me and instantly looked away, but I already saw it. I saw everything.
I breathed out, “You weren’t thinking of Roane before. You were thinking of him. Blue got it wrong somehow. Then in the car, you and Roane, you two looked like you wanted to murder each other. It was because of…” I swung my gaze to Lucan. “Who are you?”
He smiled, almost tenderly, but I still saw the killer in him. “Lucas is my twin brother—my human twin brother.”
‘Raitscliff and Lucan have both found a girl… their families are here’
Lucan strolled forward. “We’re both vampires, yes. We were sired from different families.”
“What do you want from me?” I wasn’t sure how to react. In fact, I wasn’t sure how to even breathe around this Roane look-alike. Lucan smiled again and I saw another difference. They lived by different codes. Roane defied death. He stood in the way of death and Lucan, he merely thought death couldn’t touch him. I wasn’t sure which one was the safest for company, but I’d soon find out.
“You’re Kates’ best friend. You got mixed up in this by accident. She says that you know Lucas, so I have a mission for you.” He really didn’t think I’d decline the proposal, little did he know about who I was.
I tilted my chin up. “What do you want?”
He turned and held Kates’ gaze for a moment, but neither of them needed to communicate their thoughts. I read the look and knew it was a lovers’ connection.
“Lucas has the Immortal at his home. I want you to go there and give her a message. I want you to tell her that we have her boyfriend. If she doesn’t want him to die, she needs to come to us by tomorrow night.”
“And if she doesn’t?”
“We’ll have a meal. That’s all.”
Kates jerked in reaction.
I stepped forward. “And what makes you think that ‘Lucas’ will let me talk to her?”
Then he smiled one of those intimate I-know-your-secret smiles. “Because I know that this Adam character isn’t your boyfriend.”
“How do you know that?” I already knew. I so already knew. Though, I needed to hear it.
“Because I smell my twin brother all over you. You’ll have no problem getting in to see the Immortal and we both know it.”
Well… hell.
CHAPTER TWENTY
“You know what to do, right?” Kates asked as she walked me to the van.
“Lie to the Hunter and tell Shelly that her boyfriend’s going to die if she doesn’t give her blood up to the longest fang.”