Chosen by Fate by Virna DePaul

Author:Virna DePaul
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, General
ISBN: 9780425243992
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

Wraith came to consciousness in full-blown panic. She knew instantly she’d been drugged, and to her, that meant she was helpless. Controlled. Weighed down. Just like when that mage had experimented on her.

The fact that she was in a hotel room and unrestrained should have calmed her down. It didn’t.

The moment she saw Caleb, she went for his throat.

“You bastard! How dare you drug me!”

She kicked and punched at him, but he easily deflected her blows, proving to her he really was a badass. The whole time, he shushed her and asked her to stop. Asked her. She knew it was the gentle tone of his voice more than anything else that made her attempts to hurt him so feeble. Hearing his tone, the compassion and understanding there, made her picture how her body must have looked, spread out on that table, every inch riddled with scars.

Jerkily, she tried moving past him, gasping when he crowded her body with his, backed her against the wall, and caged her in by planting a palm on either side of her head. Immediately, she tried shoving him away, but froze when he shushed her.

“Shhhh. Don’t. Relax, Wraith. Just relax.”

Her body was shaking, but it settled well before she expected it to. With her face so close to his, his breath a light puff of air against her skin, Wraith stared into Caleb’s eyes. The ones Lucy had said were green. She knew what Lucy had left out. That they were the most beautiful shade of green on earth. They had to be. But why in hell was she thinking that now? Her brow wrinkled with confusion, and she forced herself to stop from reaching out for him.

Perhaps sensing the fact that she was gathering her defenses, Caleb smiled somewhat wistfully. “Aren’t you tired of fighting this thing between us, Wraith? Aren’t you tired of fighting yourself? Don’t you—for just fucking once—want to forget about what we should do and just do what we want?”

Before she could respond, he bent his head slightly, touching his nose to her ear.

She froze like a small animal caught in the shadow of a bird of prey. Without her brain’s permission, the soft flesh between her thighs clenched. Her head was spinning. His touch and his closeness was an intimacy she could barely endure, his body so hot that, despite the inches that separated them, the heat managed to penetrate her through her clothes.

She closed her eyes to block him out and prepared to knee him in the nuts. Instead, the instant she closed her eyes, chaos exploded within her body. From a great distance, she heard herself whimper. Something thrummed to life in her chest, a slow, steady beat, a flutter of sensation like the gentlest ripple in a lake. Something inside her loosened in preparation for the next ripple. For the next beat to come. And then the next. And then the next.

A broken laugh escaped her and she shook her head.

It was a heartbeat. Slight and barely there, but it was there.

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