Adrianna Dane by Adrianna Dane

Author:Adrianna Dane [Dane, Adrianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T23:20:41.026000+00:00

E L U R I A ’S E N F O R C E R

found it hard to believe she could have don e anything to h arm h is family. But she’d become a twilighter. It didn’t mesh with his memory of her. W hy had she do ne it?

He lifted his gaze and studied her as she faced him, poised like a young, wild kyrle awaiting termination, with no way of escape. Twelve years had passed since he’d sought to court her. She had changed.

Eluria had been a good friend to Kierra, his sister. That was how he’d first met her. She’d accompanied Kierra home after a dance celebration and Kierra introduced them. He’d recognized in the brief innocent glow o f her rad iance, the bo nding that wo uld co me to their future. Her soul b lazed out at him throug h her b eautiful violet looking-glass eyes. The plans he’d made for the future from that moment had been with the view of union and balance with Elu ria Zydon. But somehow their lines to the future had been altered.

He’d lived and breathed his responsibility to the Tribunal for twelve years. How did he reconcile wha t she was telling him now w ith his duty to contain…and destroy? Always in allegiance to a government made up of people who didn ’t merit loya lty. He kn ew his fam ily would n’t have deserved persecu tion b y the T ribunal. De von reme mbe red h is father as a good man of wisdom, unlikely to become affiliated with a rebellion withou t sufficient cause. P ain shot through him at the knowled ge of his loss.

W ith his memories no longer splintered, he knew she spoke true.

Like pieces of broken mirror restored, full knowledge brought him not hate for Eluria, but self-loathing for what he’d become.

Eluria was no longe r the you ng M aigin who honored him with her devotion. But nor was he the same naïve youth who’d envisioned a future with her as his balance. Tw elve yea rs of blo ods hed cove red h is hands. A manufactured being created for the sole purpose of termination. Pure and decisive destruction. And he’d been very good at it. The b est. How to come to terms with that knowledge? With the understanding he’d served a government that nurtured a forc e of killers, 53

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