The Nightlife Moscow (Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Suspense) (The Nightlife Series Book 5) by Travis Luedke

certainly was not human, probably
not of this Earth, and he was bonded with her from drinking her blood.
    A little too much to handle right now .
    Urvashi’s electric fingers tickled Aaron’s collarbone. A
faint crackle of power hummed with her touch. He wondered if he was becoming
dependent on her, on the energy she exuded whenever they touched. She charged
him up like a living battery pack whenever they were close, and especially
during sex.
    She smiled and he felt that powerful influence from her
again, a mood altering power she held over him. “Fool or not, I know you love
them, which is why I allow them in our lives.”
    Allow?
    He almost opened his fool mouth, but she interrupted him.
“In the future, you must consult me before adopting another pet into our little
family. We are bonded. Your decisions are not your own, not when they affect me
too.”
    “Hey, you’re the one who told me how to heal Katya. I never
would’ve had sex with her if not for your assurances I could heal her.” A side
effect of his bond with Urvashi, Aaron had acquired Urvashi’s ability to
transfer energy through intercourse. Aaron hadn’t even known, not until Urvashi
admitted it while Katya lay dying in his arms.
    If there had been any other way.
    As it turned out, Aaron discovered this strange power
resided within him, and he gave every inch of it to Katya, over and over again
to save her life. Then he bit her, many times. Too many times. Bonding Katya to
him had happened before he even realized it. His instinct to acquire
bloodslaves felt as natural as breathing.
    Urvashi watched him, waiting for his admission of the truth.
She always knew. No holding back from her.
    “So, maybe I didn’t have to bite her so many times … I don’t
think there’s a way to separate sex and feeding, Urvashi. It’s not something I
can do.” Which explained why Urvashi owned his ass, this one failing. He’d
bitten her the first time they had sex, even after she warned him not to.
    Fact: vampires bite people .
    “Yes, Aaron. Let’s not make this a habit.” She twirled her
fingers towards the bedroom door, in Katya’s direction. “Our lives are
complicated enough.”
    Aaron figured he best shut the hell up. There wasn’t much to
say in his defense, so he just nodded.
    “Renault will be here tomorrow night. He’s bringing some
special supplies. The wolves don’t want to wait another minute, but I can’t let
them go forward without proper equipment.”
    He couldn’t miss the ominous warning in her voice. Damn .
They were probably walking into a fucking dangerous mess.
    The story of his life.
    Aaron nodded again. He knew virtually nothing about guns and
gear. Urvashi had shown him how to slice and dice with a pair of katanas, but
his experience with guns was limited to the one and only time he’d used a pistol
on Michael Jamison, in London. Point and shoot until the gun ran out of bullets.
    “Renault’s bringing weapons into Moscow?” Aaron and Renault,
Urvashi’s manservant, didn’t mesh very well. A former member of the wolf pack,
Renault had taken an instant dislike to Aaron.
    Urvashi caught the negative tone and raised her eyebrows. “I
have my connections, and Renault does what he must to meet my needs. Getting guns
into the city is no small feat.”
    Then it finally clicked, what she was saying. “You’re going
with us? Into combat?” He’d never seen Urvashi in a fight, though she’d shown
him a touch of her phenomenal power a couple of times. The idea of seeing her
cut loose on Dmitri’s mafia thugs put a smile on his face.
    “Yes, I am, and so is Renault.”
    Great. Nothing like having a man who hates you
standing around with loaded weapons .
    “When is it going down?”
    Urvashi’s brow creased and she looked past Aaron, deeper
into the warehouse towards the other office cubicles the wolves had converted
into makeshift bedrooms. “They agreed to wait for Renault, but no longer.”
    “What about