Beyond the Shadows by Cassidy Hunter

Author:Cassidy Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781611184228
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2011-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“I don’t think Kai is a bad person, Brother.”

Constantine tilted his head to the side, a familiar movement that brought the sting of tears to her eyes. “Sarah. You’ve fallen for the man?”

“I…” She sipped her cup of water and looked away. “Eat your breakfast.”

They’d sat and talked through what was left of the night. Though their positions were precarious, she was too happy to see him to care.

The guards had released him from his chains when they brought breakfast, but Kai had yet to make an appearance. He’d be back. Maybe to inform her he was sending her back to Sampson, but still. He’d be back.

She could be grateful he’d put her in an empty cell. The men were four to a small cell and could barely move without bumping into one another. This was cause for some of them to take offense, and fights were pretty much constant. “It gives us something to do,” Constantine told her, grinning. His eyes, however, didn’t smile. They remained an icy green, full of haunted bleakness.

She stared at the floor. “I can never make up for what I’ve caused. Telling you that I’m truly sorry won’t help you, I know, but”—she looked up at him, her eyes swimming in a sea of regretful, guilt-filled tears—“I am so, so sorry. If I had it to do over again, I would never have asked you to…” She gestured, unable to even speak the words.

“Sarah. Don’t. It’s not your fault. It was my responsibility to keep you safe. I couldn’t even do that. Father would have been disappointed in me.”

“Don’t say that! Don’t even think it, Constantine.” Con’s and their father’s fates were uncomfortably similar. Father had been imprisoned by Sampson for plotting against him. Despite the pleadings of their mother, their father had been full of heat and vigor and determined to help take down Sampson.

All he’d managed to do was drag them all, especially Sarah, under the very, very interested regard of Commander Sampson, leader of the settlement into which they’d been born. Springland.

Father had been murdered in prison, and life as they knew it had crumbled into cold, unsympathetic ash.

It wasn’t Kai who finally showed up, but Erik. His glance at her was casual but thorough. It gave her some measure of hope. Kai had sent him to see after her. At least, that was what she told herself.

She grasped the bars, pleading. “I need to speak with Kai.”

He turned his face to her, but his gaze went to Constantine. “He doesn’t want to talk to you,” he told her, his gaze still on her brother.

Butterflies awakened in her stomach. Why was he watching Constantine? Surely, no matter how angry Kai was, he wouldn’t use her brother to hurt her. No, not Kai.

“Con,” one of his cell mates said, “your sister sure is pretty. Maybe we can talk the big man into letting her stay awhile.” The speaker was called Jimbo, and she’d learned already he was the prison’s mischievous one.

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