Cole, Kresley - The Immortals After Dark 19 - Munro by Cole Kresley

Author:Cole, Kresley [Cole, Kresley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valkyrie Press
Published: 2022-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

THIRTY-FOUR

As the wolf stared into the fire, the urge to comfort him was nearly undeniable. Ren couldn’t believe that he’d lost his parents when he was thirteen, the same age she had hers.

As he’d spoken about his family, he’d been vulnerable, seeming all too, well, human. Over the course of this endless night, Munro MacRieve had shown her many facets to his personality.

The wounded wolf who’d escaped torture. The brutal warrior fighting his kind in the rain. The immortal lover with his divine kisses.

He intrigued her; after a few shots of whiskey, infatuation was setting in. But as long as she believed going home was a possibility, and as long as the wolf ignored her wish to remain human, she couldn’t allow her feelings for him to deepen.

She gazed at his strong profile in the firelight. Easier said. When Munro had remarked that he’d felt incomplete, she’d barely concealed her reaction. What if she’d been yearning for him?

He turned to face her. “I dinna want to burden you with such a tale. But you would learn of it eventually.”

“You asked Ormlo for another means to power the gateway. You were going to use it for your parents, weren’t you?”

He nodded. “I went to Quondam partly to investigate rumors of their gateway and see if I could retrieve my family. Now I’ll use the ring.”

She stiffened. “Would I be your first or second wish?”

“My first. O’ course.”

With a roll of her eyes, she said, “I think you’ve forgotten that my plans for Dorada’s ring don’t coincide with yours.”

“What would you do with it if you had it right now?”

“I would wish to return to my life with all my loved ones and for my parents to have survived.”

His eyes flickered gold to blue and back. “I’m no’ in any existence that you envision,” he said in a toneless voice.

“You can’t be. Even if I didn’t have commitments, the two of us could never be together. You said it yourself: humans don’t belong in your world. Whether you like it or not, that’s my species. And I intend for it to stay that way.”

Instead of rehashing their argument about changing her, he asked, “Why do you think the ring will allow you to live in the past?”

“If I died, then I can go back without fading. There won’t be another version to compete with.”

“Even with the ring, you canna return as you were because you would alter events of the past—which is no’ possible. Think about it this way: if the warlocks could change history, then they would no’ be hiding in their own sphere, which is a prison in itself. With such an ability, the Forgotten would rule all the worlds.”

That was the first thing he’d said about time travel that hit home with her. Oh, Doamne, he’s . . . right. “So even with magic, I couldn’t go back and whisper in my parents’ ears to save their lives. I couldn’t get more grenades delivered to the circus earlier.”

“Nay, my lass, you canna.

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