Breaker by A.F. Henley

Author:A.F. Henley [Wyre, A.F. Henley; Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisexual, Gay, Urban Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2017-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Kaeva

"So," Eddie said from where he sat as far away from Kaeva as possible in the ATV. He clung to the rollbars as the tires navigated the rock-strewn path toward the City.

"What?" Kaeva snarled. It'd taken them four tries to get into the vehicle that morning. The first three, Kaeva had fritzed the electric engine, turning it on and revving it from a distance. Nothing had fried, thank God, and after a long meditation session alone in his house while Eddie wandered the yard, he'd been able to get behind the wheel.

Eddie waved expansively to the sky and land around them. "The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the air is ripe with opportunity and the sheer beauty of life."

Kaeva must have glanced at Eddie like he had lost what remained of his mind. Eddie flashed that shit-eating grin that seemed permanently fixed on his face when he was nervous. "And you, my snarling friend, are the lone dark cloud on the horizon."

"The hell are you trying to say?" Kaeva asked.

"You seem tense."

"Gee."

"Angry, even."

"Can't imagine why."

"Anything I should know?" Eddie asked.

Eddie seemed more anxious than usual, and Kaeva figured that had to do with the Council meeting. A nice man would have tried to put Eddie's mind at ease.

After last night, however, Kaeva was feeling even less like a nice man than usual. Despite being more exhausted than he'd been in years, Kaeva had dreamed all night. And not different nightmares, oh no. He'd dreamed the same thing over and over. He'd wake up in his dream, find Eddie sound asleep beside him, all snuggled up to Kaeva for warmth. Eddie would murmur something soft and sleepy and open his eyes in what amounted to his death bed, and Kaeva would actually wake up, gasping for air and flailing for the edge of the mattress. Once Kaeva had actually crawled most of the way to the wall before he'd registered that Eddie had not been there in the flesh. Another time, Kaeva had caught a scream in his throat, but not before he'd rasped a cry loud enough for him to wonder if it'd woken Eddie.

The house had remained silent as a tomb, and after the fourth rude awakening, Kaeva had done his morning exercises, climbed out of the loft, and read by lantern light until Eddie had stirred. Eddie, attempting, Kaeva had to assume, to prove independence, had nearly wrecked the kitchen in his efforts to figure out how to brew coffee without an instant machine. Kaeva had ordered Eddie out of the kitchen and bitten Eddie's head clean off more than once when Eddie had tried to explain he wasn't helpless. Kaeva'd had a few choice words to say about such a statement. They'd fought, Eddie had stalked out to the porch, and they'd remained separated until it'd been time to get on the road.

Sponsorship was going so well.

"No?" Eddie asked when Kaeva hadn't replied. "Nothing at all? No lectures on how to live off the

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