Bedeviled by Child Maureen

Author:Child, Maureen [Child, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451225764
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2009-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

Culhane blew out a breath and told himself to be patient. To remember that she was new to this. But his own impatience for change made that difficult.

She was finally beginning to use her growing strength—as evidenced by the fall he’d just taken. Not that he couldn’t have stopped her if he’d wanted to, he assured himself. He’d been taking it easy on her. Wanting her to feel the thrill of victory. Confidence was important. She needed to feel as if she were able to defeat the queen.

An internal voice called him the liar he was. He hadn’t expected that she would react so swiftly, so smoothly to his attack. She’d surprised him—as she had since the moment they met.

She was more than he’d thought at first, but, more important, she was more than she believed herself to be. If she were to be queen, Maggie would need to feel that she’d earned it. That she was prepared for it. Bringing her to Otherworld was an important step.

Culhane had had to show her this place. Make her realize it was real and just as vital as her own world. She’d had to see the Fae and recognize that in many ways her people and his were much alike. How could he expect her to fight for a place and a people she didn’t know and only half believed in?

Now it was time to take the next step in her training. To show her all that rested on her shoulders. To make it plain to her that there was no avoiding any of this. There was nowhere for her to go but forward.

To show her that this was what she had been born to do. Her entire life had been leading her to this time.

She was worried, and he’d noticed that the blue of her eyes darkened when her thoughts were rushing through her mind. She was thinking of the coming battle, of the future that stretched out in front of her, unknown, unseen. And she was mentally pulling back from the confidence she’d only just gained.

Perhaps the answer, then, was to silence her doubts with a distraction. Give her something else to consider. To fill her mind.

Culhane moved in closer, and with every step he took he saw her eyes narrow with suspicion.

“What’re you doing?”

He gave her a slow smile. “Something we both want.”

“Now hold on a second. . . .”

“You want me.”

She blinked. “No ego problems here.”

“This is not about ego,” he told her, and came close enough to catch her scent. It was the simple truth. Yes, he knew she wanted him, but he wanted her as well. Never before had he been so haunted by a woman. Never before had a female reached him beyond the physical.

Maggie filled him, drawing him in, and in moments everything seemed to change. He’d thought to distract her. To use the heat between them for his own purposes. Now, though, his own want and need had eclipsed his desire to redirect Maggie Donovan’s thoughts.

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