Awaken the Curse by Alexa Egan

Author:Alexa Egan [Egan, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, Fiction, General, Paranormal, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781451695311
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2012-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

“I didn’t want Father to invite you to Wales. I was afraid of seeing you again.” Katherine curled into James’s shoulder, her head nestled under his chin, her hair tickling his nose.

“That’s funny,” he replied. “I went as far as throwing his letter in the ash bin to be burned for the very same reason.”

“You were afraid too?” she asked, surprise in her voice.

“Terrified.” He stared deep into the fire, watching the ripple and curl of mage energy within the heart of each flame. “Do you ever wonder what would have happened had we not been caught that night? Or if you’d agreed to come with me when I left for London?”

She tilted her head up so she was facing him, forehead crinkled in confusion. “What do you mean, ‘agreed to come’ with you? You never asked me.”

“Are you mad? Of course I asked you.” A horrible suspicion snaked its way into his sleep-satisfied brain. He didn’t want to believe it, but the monstrous pieces fit. Shoving himself up onto his elbows, he met her curious gaze with drawn brows. “I wrote you the very night your father caught us kissing. When I didn’t hear back, I wrote you twice more.”

By now she was sitting up beside him, running hand over worried hand through her hair, lip caught between her teeth, anger swiftly replacing confusion.

“I finally risked both life and reputation and showed up at your door. I’d pumped so much whisky into myself, I didn’t care what threats your father hurled. I needed to see you. Hear you say the words to my face.”

“What words?” The color had drained from Katherine’s cheeks. Even her lips were bloodless. Only her eyes burned hot as coals.

“That it was over between us. That a penniless younger son and a precarious future were never in your plans. That it had all been a lie.”

She pulled away, dragging the coverlet with her, shoulders hunched as if she were in pain. “I don’t want to hear any more, James.”

But as if something cracked open inside of him, he couldn’t stop. She needed to hear. Needed to know what her father had done. “He told me that you’d left for Bath to stay with your aunt. That you didn’t want to see me again. Then he handed me my letters back. All unopened.”

“I didn’t . . . James, I never . . .” Her voice caught on a sob. She paused to draw a calming breath and began again. “How could you believe him? How could you think I would do that? I never knew about the letters. I never received them. Any of them. After a week with no word, I assumed . . . I thought . . . When Father packed me off to my aunt, I went. I didn’t care. I felt so stupid and humiliated, I just wanted to be away from Oxford and pretend none of it had happened.” She drew her knees up, hugging them to her chest, her hair falling around her face, shudders running the length of her body.

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