Blade of Darkness by Dianne Duvall

Author:Dianne Duvall [Duvall, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2017-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

Dana chewed her lower lip as Ethan carried Sarah inside. The unconscious immortal’s long brown hair flowed over his biceps, dancing with every movement.

Aidan followed with Roland draped over one shoulder, the surly immortal’s arms dangling down his back and swaying back and forth.

“Will they be okay?” she asked anxiously. She really had thought Roland was going to hurt Aidan. Sarah, too. It had just been so dark. Unable to see them clearly, she had caught the quick movement and figured better safe than sorry.

“They’ll be fine,” Aidan assured her.

“Fine, but pissed,” Heather corrected with a wry smile as she followed them inside and closed the door.

Ethan lowered Sarah to the sofa.

Aidan seated Roland beside her and stepped back.

The couple looked as though they had fallen asleep while watching television, shoulders brushing, heads lolling back against the cushions.

Dana, Aidan, Ethan, and Heather stood in a semicircle, staring down at them as they waited for Ed and Brodie to reappear.

“I can’t believe he said that,” Heather whispered, her eyes on Roland.

“Which part?” her husband asked.

“All of it.”

Dana looked at Heather and the others. “What did he say?” They seemed stunned, as if whatever Roland had told Aidan had made them completely rethink everything they knew about him.

“I feel sort of bad now,” Heather admitted in lieu of answering. “I really did think of him as being kind of…”

“Cold and heartless?” her husband offered.

“Well, not heartless,” she qualified. “No one who has seen how he is with Sarah and Adira can call him heartless.”

Aidan and Ethan nodded their agreement.

“But cold?” Heather went on. “Yeah. I mean, he’s always so—I don’t know—unapproachable. So closed off to the rest of us. But now? After this? After what he said to Aidan? And the emotion I heard in his voice?” She shook her head. “I gotta admit, I teared up a little.”

Dana looked up at Aidan. “What did he say?”

Aidan shifted his weight from one foot to the other, unease creeping into his handsome features. “He apologized.”

Dana waited for him to say more, but he opted not to elaborate.

Heather frowned up at him. “There was a little more to it than that, Aidan. You should tell her. Or, better yet, show her. All of it. You can do that, right?”

Dana looked to Aidan. Show her? How?

“Yes,” he admitted with obvious reluctance.

“Then you should,” Heather urged him. “Let her see it all. Because it sounds like Roland intends to stick around. And the last thing Dana needs on top of everything else is to worry about him attacking you again or not being fully on your side.”

Dana turned a doubtful gaze on Roland.

“See?” Heather pointed to her. “She doesn’t believe he can be trusted.”

All eyes turned to Dana.

She shrugged. “Of course I don’t. He tried to kill Aidan.”

And still Aidan looked reluctant to comply. But he did, nevertheless.

Turning toward her, he touched the tip of one finger to her temple.

The living room around her vanished, replaced by Ethan and Heather’s front yard. Aidan’s stroll with Roland

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