Closing the Circle (Guardians of the Pattern, Book 6) by Jaye McKenna

Author:Jaye McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, assassin, gay, addiction, space opera, spaceship, telepaths, psychics, enemies to lovers, past abuse
Publisher: Jaye McKenna

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Cam lay on his side, staring into the fireplace, head pillowed on Draven’s chest, fingers brushing lightly across the sprinkling of coarse, black hairs. Sex and wine had made him sleepy, and his eyes kept drifting shut. Outside, the wind howled around the cabin, and the snow was still piling up. Didn’t matter. He was safe inside, snug, warm, and comfortable.

“I could fall asleep here…” he murmured.

“Warmer here than upstairs,” Draven said, tugging the blanket up over their bare shoulders and tucking it around him.

“Mmm. This is good.”

“The wine?” Draven reached for the glass they were sharing and took a sip. He held it for Cam to take a drink, then set it carefully down on the coffee table next to the couch. “DeMira would never have tolerated a local brand at his table. His wine always came from the French vineyards on Earth.”

“I know. I remember the bar in my suite at the Paris estate. All Earth imports. One bottle worth more than a month’s salary. I wasn’t talking about the wine, though. I meant the company.”

There was a long pause before Draven said, “I… don’t think anyone’s ever said that to me before.”

“Not surprising.” Cam tilted his head to stare up at him. “You’re a little scary.”

“Scary? Yesterday, you said I was cute. Make up your mind, Asada.”

Cam grinned. “You were cute yesterday. And today. But I was pretty damn scared that night you went into my head and told DeMira I had a riptide habit when I was a kid. I thought I’d buried that stuff so deep, nobody would ever find it. I knew if you’d found that, you’d found everything, and I was just waiting for you to kill me. Couldn’t figure out why you didn’t.”

“I almost did.” Draven shifted his gaze to the ceiling. “It was a near thing. Miko stopped me. He kept insisting you were the one who would save us both. I couldn’t imagine how you were going to do that, but… I’d known Miko for three years at that point. Long enough to know that I could trust him on that, even if I couldn’t see how it could possibly play out.”

“God.” Cam was wide awake now. He’d always believed it was him saving Miko, not the other way around.

Draven was still staring up at the ceiling, and he didn’t look the least bit sleepy. How much of the wine had Draven actually drunk? Cam had certainly had enough to loosen his tongue and soften his judgment. Enough to give voice to a question that had been nagging him for seven years. “What are you and Miko to each other? Not lovers. I got that.”

“No, never that. Brothers, maybe, like you and Kyn. We… helped each other survive. He taught me how to keep the mythe at bay. The rumors about DeMira’s crazy shooter… they were true up until I met Miko. I’d never been able to shut it out before, but he taught me how. In return, I did what I could to protect him.

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