Black Gate: Timewalker Chronicles, Book 4 by Callahan Michele

Author:Callahan, Michele [Callahan, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Timewalker Chronicles Book 4, sci-fi romance
Published: 2014-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Celestina shivered and pulled the thick coating of blankets up to her chin. The heating controls in her quarters were set as hot as the ship’s systems would allow, well above what most would consider comfortable. They’d called her a hot-house flower for centuries, she might as well claim the environment as her own.

Even with humidity beading the walls like steam from a shower, she was cold.

Gods be damned, she feared she’d never be warm again.

Swinging her feet to the side of her reclined viewing chair, she stood on wobbly legs. She would not give up now, not after she’d battled for centuries to influence the outcome of the Crux, and waited for him to show up in this time.

Her vile Marked Mate had arrived on Earth a few months ago, which meant that somewhere above her head, deep in the stars, a great battle had raged. Her husband’s battleship, destroyed. Her maternal lineage supposedly eradicated, hunted to extinction. The royals on three worlds believed her dead in that battle. Evil had claimed a victory that day, and the Seer, the true Seer, Celestina, had foreseen it all. Celestina had saved her, given her a new name, a new face, and a new power that, even after seven centuries, she still grappled to control.

The Seer had died in her place so that she could see this through. Her Marked would have to wait, but he would be more dangerous than ever. Now that they were both here, together on Earth, he would feel her presence, would siphon energy from her like the vile parasite he’d always been.

He might even try to drain her dry before the Crux, before the Lost King was found. He could hobble her before she could save Earth and the people she’d come to care about most. But he wouldn’t, because he didn’t know what she knew, didn’t know what was coming.

The door to her sanctuary slid open and Bran invaded her space as if summoned by her need for him. She couldn’t risk his life by revealing the truth to him, but she couldn’t stop longing for him, couldn’t stop her weak heart from dreaming impossible dreams.

“What’s the emergency this time?” Blunt to the point of pain, as usual. It helped set her feet back on solid ground, so to speak.

“Ajax has been found. He’s here. I felt him. For the first time in centuries, I felt him.”

Bran paced her space like a caged tiger, but he didn’t complain about the heat. He did, however, scowl at her when she shivered. “I know. I felt him, too.”

“Your blood oath?” Dangerous thing, the blood of a full Immortal. If Ajax ever died, he’d take every half-blood bound to him to the grave right alongside him.

“Damn it, woman. You should not know about that, but yes.” Bran raised one hand to massage the back of his neck, clearly irritated.

“So, Teagh will have felt him wake as well?” She crossed her arms and studied the wide expanse of his shoulders.

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