Blood Challenge (Lupi) by Eileen Wilks

Author:Eileen Wilks [Wilks, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T17:28:49.442000+00:00

Arjenie looked wistful. “I don’t know. Eledan told her that names affect the sidhe in ways they don’t affect humans, and that seems to be true. Mom said she didn’t know enough to name me properly herself, while Eledan had had a great deal of practice naming his babies.”

He’d touched her cheek before he had time to remember that touching her was a bad idea. Her skin was so soft. He stroked his thumb across that warm, smooth skin. “That makes you sad.”

“It made her sad. Not al the time, but sometimes.

Sometimes I’d see her sitting quietly, looking out the window, and I knew she was thinking of him.

Remembering. Wanting him to come back, even though she knew he wouldn’t stay. But he—he’d told her he’d come back one day. Not right away, because he was a foolish and distractible fel ow.

Those were his words, and when he said it he laughed in this way that always made her smile when she told the story. She wasn’t to expect him on any particular day, for he was blasted if he could see how anyone knew what they’d do tomorrow, much less a year or ten from now. But one day he’d come back to check on her.” She swal owed. “He did, too.

He came to check on her … two years after she died.”

He kissed her.

There was no thought to it, no plan, no reason.

And every reason. She jolted when his lips touched hers, then went stil . He kissed her softly, learning the taste and feel of her mouth, and then he made another mistake. With his lips touching hers, he breathed deeply of her scent.

Fire leaped in him, and need—need so strong it made his breath jerk in his throat and almost, almost, made him reach for her with his hands as wel . But some dim remnant of reason told him that if he did that, he wouldn’t stop.

And he had to stop. His head was light and empty, dizzy with hunger, when he lifted it, breaking the kiss.

Her hands clutched his arms. She looked as undone as he felt.

“What …” She stopped. Swal owed. “What was that? I mean, I know it was a kiss, but it was—I never

—”

“A summary,” he told her, his voice hoarse. “You’l get the ful report soon, but right now we both have to settle for a summary.”

She shook her head. “You’re not making sense.

You aren’t … you can’t do a glamour, can you? Like the sidhe?”

Like her father had done to her mother, she meant. He looked at her wide, wary eyes, and sorrow took him by the throat and shook him like a terrier shakes a rat. “No.” He forced that word out, then found a few more. “We’d better get back. Sun’s on its way down. Rule and Lily wil be here soon.”

“Okay.” But her brows remained pleated in a smal , worried frown. “Are they going to answer some of my questions?”

He managed a wry smile. “I don’t know.

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