Rebel's Desire (Iron Portal Paranormal Romance Series) (Iron Portal Series Book 4) Read Online Free PDF Page A

army tries to break you.”
    Vince pulled her into his arms and pressed a soothing kiss to the top of her head. “We know all about that, don’t we, Sean?”
    The big man rubbed a hand over his close-cropped black hair and nodded.
    Asher was flexing the fingers and thumb of his injured hand over and over.
    “How does it feel?” Olivia asked, a faint shadow of fatigue hovering under her eyes now.
    “Perfect, Lass. As good as new. Thank you.” Then he brushed his lips tenderly over hers and led her out of the kitchen, presumably up to their room to tuck her into bed.
    Everyone turned then and went back to what they were doing. Sean looked stunned, as if he still couldn’t quite believe what he’d just witnessed. He went back to the table and took up his position in front of the computer screen again.
    Toryn picked up Asher’s hammer from the middle of the floor and set it on the counter.
    The renovations on this Iron Haven—the second one—wouldn’t be finished anytime soon. There were whole wings that hadn’t even been touched yet.
    It had been Rickert and Neyla’s idea to set up a few places for warriors to call home while on this side of the portal, since you couldn’t cross back over for a few weeks without getting iron sick. The compound had once been a resort for the rich and famous at the beginning of the last century until a flood wiped out the only road leading in. It lay abandoned for decades, forgotten by Pacificans. But just to be on the safe side, Esmerelda crystals had been brought over and strategically placed around the property’s perimeter, hiding it from the outside world.
    Toryn turned to head back out to the garage when something on Sean’s screen caught his attention.
    “What’s that?” he asked, stepping closer to get a better look.
    Sean glanced up, surprise registering on his face before he looked back at his screen. “Pictures I took of the club the other night. I thought maybe I could figure out another way in. See that window up on the second floor?” He enlarged the image. “It looks like it’s open. I was thinking we could…”
    Sean kept talking but Toryn wasn’t listening. He was looking at something else in the image.
    “Those men. Down at the bottom. Who are they?”
    “The bouncers, I think. Hold on.” Sean pressed a few buttons. Toryn wasn’t very familiar with computers or how digital cameras worked, but whatever the man did, that section of the picture got bigger.
    “Yeah, those are the bouncers, and that one there,” Sean said, touching the screen, “is the Psychic-Talent who ousted Asher and Konal.”
    “What the bloody hell?” Toryn rubbed a hand over the stubble on his chin, confused as hell. They were the same two men who had chased Keely. “Are you sure?”
    “Yes.”
    “Did the Psychic-Talent shake their hands?” he asked. “Make skin to skin contact? Is that how he read their minds and knew what they were there for?”
    Sean shook his head. “I don’t think so. As soon as they got about ten feet from the entrance, the bouncers just knew.”
    No skin-to-skin contact. The Psychics he knew had to be touching you to read your mind. But if that thug’s Talent was so powerful, why hadn’t he read their thoughts when Toryn and Keely were kissing? The men had paused on the sidewalk less than ten feet away then sprinted off. If the Talent had been able to read their minds, he would’ve known that Keely was the one they were chasing and that the man she was kissing was plotting to kill their boss.
    Since Konal or Asher could easily corroborate Sean’s claim that this was the same guy, Toryn had to assume he was telling the truth.
    Then he remembered the jolt of electricity when Keely had kissed him. And it couldn’t be chalked up to his reaction to having that hot young woman throw herself into his arms and press that sweet little body of hers to his. He slowly rubbed his palms together at the memory of how luscious her curves were, and he ached