"Come here. I'll hide you." Blayne hadn't noticed that she had spoken aloud until the guy indicated the area beside him and spoke. Immediately she knew what he was thinking, and that it would probably work. And she hated it. Firmly she told herself to think of it as method acting. Noting that Aryn headed into the kitchen, she sat down beside him. Urgently he pulled her so that she was leaning against him and kissed her cheek just as the first soldier walked through the door.
Sticking a smile on her face, she brought her lips right next to his ear and breathed, "Do anything worse than that and I'll kill you."
In kind he replied, "You're in no position to demand anything. I could just turn you in right now." His tongue flicked out and licked the curve of her ear. She barely held herself back from flinching, because that would have messed up the alchemy circle that she was meticulously engraving into the floor with her thumbnail.
Sure enough, the eyes of the entering troopers moved right over her, some in disgust and others in amusement. The entire restaurant had quieted, but not stopped altogether. The clients were still eating and the waitresses were still serving, but all were casting nervous glances at the soldiers.
The alchemy circle completed, Blayne activated it and sealed the two doors leading from the kitchen to outside. The only other way out of the kitchen was through the dining room. The blonde was distracting, especially when he traced the curve of one of her breasts with his finger. She almost snapped and bit the finger off, but the will to avoid capture won out.
She ignored him for the most part, even though at times it was difficult. Channeling the alchemy that far away, to something she couldn't even see, took all of her concentration. However, she was rewarded with the thud of a body hitting a wooden door forcefully. A genuine smile lit up her face, but it dropped a few notches when she brought her attention back to what her tablemate was doing. She did bite him that time.