Threshold of Pleasure (Mills & Boon Nocturne Cravings) Read Online Free PDF

simply a missing woman.
    After ten minutes, Eden was through waiting.
    She pushed open the door and marched in. There were two guys at the urinals. Ignoring their indignant protests, she continued on to the three closed stalls.
    Eden peered through the crack in the first door. A young man in leather nearly fell off the toilet. She moved to the next one. This time there was a couple, a man and woman, getting their jollies—they didn’t even notice her intrusion. The third and final stall was empty.
    “Where the hell did he go?” Eden spun around the room, looking for another exit or a utility door or employee entrance. There were none. She glanced up and saw a small barred window. No way that anyone could fit through that, especially not a man weighing at least two hundred and fifty pounds of solid flexed muscle.
    “Damn it!” she yelled.
    The washroom door swung open again. Two beefy bouncers stomped in; she recognized one of them from the front door.
    He grinned. “It’ll be my pleasure to show you the way out, sweetheart.”

Chapter Five
    The bouncers escorted Eden out of the club, but they couldn’t force her off the street. She stood on the other side of the road, leaning against someone’s car, and kept watch on the place. Something was going on inside the club, something nefarious or something unnatural. Either way she’d wait here all night to find out. She couldn’t let this lead disappear.
    After two hours of sitting, Eden stood and flexed her legs. Her ass had gone numb. As she walked around, the prickly sensation radiated over her butt and down the backs of her thighs. She hated that feeling.
    Something stirred in the alley a block over. A pop bottle rolled out of the mouth and onto the street. Vigilant, Eden watched, waiting to see if someone emerged. A flash of something pale rushed into the lane. She couldn’t be sure, but it had the look of a man, although it could have just been dogs rummaging through the garbage bins.
    Big dogs the size of humans?
    A sudden urge to make sure crept over her. What if it had something to do with the giant from the club or with Lilith?
    After looking both ways to make sure no one was observing her, Eden sneaked along the sidewalk and ducked into the alleyway. It was practically barren except for a big green garbage bin that stood against one wall about halfway down.
    Keeping her eyes forward, she bent down and unsheathed the knife from the strap on her calf just above her boot. She flicked the blade open and stepped down the alley, her back to the brick wall opposite the bin. She didn’t know what she was expecting, but she was of the motto forearmed is forewarned —with armed meaning literally with weapon.
    As she crept, she listened for any out-of-place sounds, except she could barely hear over her own labored breathing and pounding heartbeat. Dread was pumping through her veins like a toxin. Maybe coming down the alley hadn’t been a very bright idea.
    A sudden breeze whipped through the alley, sending pieces of papers and trash into a swirling dust devil. Eden shut her eyes as it whirled around her, peppering her face with dirt and debris. Almost as soon as it formed, it was gone, entombing the alley with dead silence.
    Eden’s skin crawled. Someone or something was staring at her—she could feel it on her flesh like a thousand scurrying cockroaches. With her thoughts working overtime, Eden decided to turn and go back the way she’d come. There was nothing here. Even with the minimal light, she could see down to the end. At least, that’s what she kept telling herself as she rushed along the wall to the opening of the lane.
    Glancing once more behind her, she stepped out of the alley and onto the sidewalk with a sigh of relief. She flicked her blade closed and tucked it into her pants pocket. Shaking her head at how foolish she’d just been, Eden started to walk back to the car to continue watching the club.
    She managed two steps before she was quite