Captive Heart by Anna Windsor

Author:Anna Windsor [Windsor, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780345516800
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-01-25T08:00:00+00:00

Rebecca had known for years that she didn’t need as much sleep as her brother.

Lately, she hardly slept at all. Why anyone would waste the vibrant night hours—that confused her.

Night had a voice. Sometimes it sang to her, sometimes it whispered, but the darkness always reached out to her and touched her in ways she couldn’t explain. The hours between darkness and dawn gave her an excited focus and energy she didn’t quite know how to manage.

She tended to get in trouble at night, when her brother slept, when the Coven took turns standing guard over the warehouse in pairs and keeping track of Sibyl movements and activities. They had been especially active this last week, since the head of the OCU got out of the hospital—and since Rebecca got out of the prison her brother had designed for her. Her wrists ached as if remembering the elemental cuffs that had bound them for so many months after the last time she ran away from Griffen. At night, of course.

She wasn’t even sure why she’d run, or what she had been looking for, but it didn’t matter. Griffen always found her. They each had inherited different gifts from their father, and one of his was recognizing and tracking specific energies.

Hers, apparently, served as a beacon Griffen could follow to her whenever he liked. She didn’t think she’d try running again, at least not until she knew where she was going.

Rebecca took care to stay well away from the watchmen as she moved through the ground floor of the warehouse. She didn’t need light to see. Not anymore. For the past few years, she’d been able to see in the dark like most people saw at noon on sun-filled days. Seeing in the daytime—now, that was getting trickier. Bright light burned her eyes, making her head ache and her skin and insides feel like she had some terrible, feverish infection. She had taken to wearing sunglasses almost all the time, but she had them off now so she wouldn’t miss any subtleties or detail.

She bypassed the small apartments holding sleeping fighters, bound into their quarters with elemental locks that dulled their senses and lust for action and blood. She ignored the off-limits lab in the corner where the—thing—was, and went instead to the heavily barred cell built into the farthest corner next to the lab.

In the stark, bare space inside, the old man sat staring at nothing. His abnormally large and muscled body heaved with the force of his breath, a symptom of the lungs he’d damaged during his human years.

Couldn’t fix all of that, Griffen had explained. Damage done before the injection can’t be reversed. Only new damage.

Rebecca knew the old man had expected to be young again, that he had imagined himself fit and full of fresh air as he joined with Griffen and the Coven to take control of the more powerful crime families in New York City. He’d been played, of course. Griffen had promised him these things without having a clue what that injection would do.

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