Ascending Passion by Amanda Pillar

Author:Amanda Pillar [Pillar, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Fantasy, paranormal romance, urban fantasy
Publisher: Maatkare Books
Published: 2019-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Rowan felt sick to her stomach, and dirty. And hollow. And just…gross.

Her head throbbed, and she was tipsy as hell, courtesy of Dru shoving a glass of wine at her to ‘calm her nerves’. And she felt like she’d been to the worst immersive theater production ever. Plus, she’d lost time. Had she suffered a head injury? She felt her skull. No, there were no wounds. But she didn’t even remember the drive back to the compound.

I just saw a man get his arm cut off.

Cut.

Off.

Yael—her Yael—had done it without even blinking. She’d known he had military experience, but she hadn’t expected him to be so calm about slicing off someone’s limb. And that was only the bits she’d seen. Dru had tried to tell her more, but Rowan hadn’t been in the frame of mind to listen. She didn’t want to know about all the needless death or mutilation.

Or how awesome Dru’s knife-throwing skills were.

And the man that had tried to harm her, he had to have been in some sort of cult or something; it was the only thing that could explain the odd markings on his skin. The poor guy had probably been brainwashed into believing he needed to attack them.

No way am I telling Gran about this.

At least everyone is okay.

Not that she’d been told that, but she just knew everyone had survived. She’d check with Yael once he got out of the shower. Her head swam suddenly, and she lay back on the bed, curling in on herself. She had no idea what kind of wine she’d drunk—Dru hadn’t been all that forthcoming when she’d asked.

It was white. And it had bubbles. That was about all she knew.

But she definitely felt drunker than she should after one glass.

And I fainted earlier.

For someone who’d never passed out in their life, it had been embarrassing to wake up in her room, a concerned Dru by her side. The white-haired woman had even been on the phone talking to someone called Peony, asking for medical advice.

Maybe that’s why I have some memory loss? Fainting had caused her to lose some time?

The sound of the shower stopped, and Yael emerged a few minutes later from the bathroom, his hair wet and T-shirt sticking to his barely dry abs. For a moment, the drunken part of her roared to the surface, demanding she strip that T-shirt off and lick her way down his stomach to his waistband.

She clenched her teeth and rolled over to face him as he dropped his bag by the door. She was not going to do anything to his stomach, no matter that she could see he had an eight-pack.

Memories of the severed arm reached her again and she shivered. Every time she closed her eyes, she could see it, feel the blood spraying against her face. “Can you come here?”

He narrowed his eyes, like she was laying a trap for him. “Why?”

“Can you?”

With a loud sigh, he sat on the edge of her bed. “What do you need?”

“Can you, I dunno.

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