Breeds 21 - Lion's Heat by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Romance - Paranormal, Romance - Erotica, Romance - Shape Shifters
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

The bath helped, but Rachel found herself not quite as sleepy, nor as tired, as she should be. Pulling on the long, warm gown that had been provided for her and a matching robe, she took a deep breath before leaving the bathroom.

She found Amber's crib empty when she reentered the bedroom. She touched the ultra-soft comforter on the mattress and felt her heart clench in something akin to panic.

Jonas was drawing her in. He was tying her to him in ways she wasn't certain she wanted to be tied to him.

Love.

She had thought she loved Devon. Those months in Switzerland had been incredible even though the job she had gone there for hadn't quite worked out.

She had thought it fate when she met Devon.

He had been bright, funny. She hadn't even known who his family was for months. Not until his father had arrived, dour, disapproving, and informed her that she wasn't good enough to marry into the elite Marshal clan.

Her confusion had been almost comical.

He'd looked Devon straight in the eye and disowned him until he decided to get some balls, as he called it, and ditch the dumb bitch he had knocked up.

He'd thrown a clip of money on the floor, ordered her to get an abortion and left.

Devon had sworn he loved her. He had contacts, he'd claimed. He would get a job; he loved working.

She snorted at the memory. That night he had disappeared. Not just with the money clip and Rachel's money, but also her passport and credit cards as well. She had been stranded; the rent and utilities were due. There had been no food.

He'd left a letter, short and to the point. He would contact her when the doctor he directed her to called and informed him the abortion had been performed. She could go home then.

The embassy had refused to help her after firing her. Of course, Devon's father had ensured that. She hadn't been able to get a job. Every time she secured one, something happened and she was fired within hours.

She'd called Kane out of desperation when she couldn't reach Diana.

And now, here she was.

Perhaps Devon had been fate after all, she thought. That road had led her to Merinus, and then to Jonas.

Or perhaps she was simply being as fanciful as Diana had always accused her of being.

Either way, here she was, and she was learning that love wasn't as tidy, or as sweet and easy, as she had once thought it should be.

It came with complications, and it came with a hell of a lot of questions.

Turning, she strode to the doorway, and for the second time, came to a stop. In front of the fire, on the large, soft rug before it, Jonas lay with Amber.

He'd changed clothes. Dressed in loose sweatpants, bare feet and a bare chest, he lay next to the baby as the fire flickered in front of them.

Amber was watching the flames with the drowsy wonder that only a baby could show.

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