Christine Feehan - Drake Sisters 07 by Hidden Currents

Author:Hidden Currents [Currents, Hidden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

KATE looked down at her hands when all eyes turned to her. To Jackson, Kate Drake had a certain regal quality. She was the quietest of the Drake sisters, a little shy and rarely brought attention to herself. She loved her books and curling up in her home on a stormy day with her family the most. That and Matt Granite, the rough, tough ex-Army Ranger who just happened to be her fiancé.

“You and Jackson are strong enough to shield me from anything you’re afraid of, Elle,” she said, her voice soothing and confident. She walked to the window and looked out over the sea. Far away she could see tendrils of dark heavy fog receding. “I won’t do anything you don’t want me to do, but, honey, it’s very obvious to me that when Jackson lets go of your mind, this man, this enemy, has found a way in.”

Elle frowned and rubbed at her bruised throat. “But how? I don’t understand how he can take me over like that.” Like he was possessing her somehow, crawling inside her mind and raping her all over again. She could feel the touch of his hands, the way he chose to hurt her, the way he taunted that he could bring her pleasure. She hadn’t wanted Jackson to hear that, to know or feel it, yet he had.

She looked at Jackson with despair in her eyes, feeling it with terrible dread in her heart. “I’m so sorry,” she murmured.

“Do you really fucking think I would ever blame you for the things he did to you?” Jackson spat out, shaking with rage before he could contain it. He made a visible effort to gain control, letting out his breath and burying his face in her neck for a long moment. “Stavros Gratsos has nothing to do with what is between you and me and he never will have. He doesn’t know what love is, or pleasure or giving and sharing one’s body. He wants to possess you and control you, force you to be whatever he chooses for you.” He might have forced your body to react to him, Elle, but he never had you. He’ll never have the real you. “You’re my heart and my soul, baby, and whatever he did was all about him and nothing about you.”

“I can try,” Kate said. “I’d like to help.”

Elle took a deep breath and shook her head regretfully. She wasn’t strong enough to shield Kate from the emotional trauma of what had happened to her and she wasn’t about to let her gentle sister experience a man as depraved as Stavros. Jackson had saved her.

You saved yourself by taking that leap of faith. You trusted me enough to give yourself to me wholly. And Jackson had been humbled by Elle’s faith in him. After all she’d been through, she’d still believed in him enough to let go of everything and hand herself over to him. He kissed the top of her head, trying not to crush her in his arms.

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