Cougar's Courage (Duals and Donovans: The Different) by Roberts Teresa Noelle

Author:Roberts, Teresa Noelle [Roberts, Teresa Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-10-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Jack touched Cara’s cheek gently. “Wake up, sleepy.”

She stirred and opened her eyes. “I wasn’t sleeping. You know, your cougarside talks to me,” she said. “He says he can help us convince Gramps to live and figured it was easier to talk to me directly than go through you. That way we can be on the same page.”

“My cougar doesn’t talk in human words.” He took her hand. “And he doesn’t talk to anyone but me and other duals.”

She pulled her hand away. “Some other cougar is talking to me, then. Some cougar with human eyes and a necklace like the one you wear.”

“You were dreaming.”

“Having a vision, maybe. Not dreaming.”

The cougarside could laugh, in his own way, not a noise but a feeling. The cougar was laughing at him now, and the images in his head all added up to I told you so.

Told him Cara was his mate.

Maybe more than that.

“The cougar,” she said slowly and carefully, as if the words were volatile explosives, “says he’s my other spirit guide. Which would make you my spirit guide. Which makes no sense, except all my intuition tells me it’s true.” Cara pulled away as if the freakiness had finally sunk in through the post-fuck haze. She rolled from the bed to her feet. “No offense, but how the fuck are you my spirit guide?”

She sounded annoyed.

He wasn’t sure he blamed her.

“I don’t know. “ His heart and his magic told him that it was the truth. No one ever said, though, that truth had to make sense, especially for shamans.

“I’ve never heard of anything like this,” he said, realizing his voice sounded flat and lame. “Rafe and I are our own spirit guides, in a sense, but it’s more that the cougarside channels back to the ancestors and Trickster for us. I don’t understand how I can be a human’s spirit guide. I can’t reach back to your ancestors.”

“No kidding it makes no sense. You’re not a spirit. You’re real.” She hesitated, then added in a voice that was a little less angry, though just as tense, “No offense, Lynx. I know you’re real too.” He caught a glimpse of the smaller cat out of the corner of his eye. “I mean real in the normy sense.” Cara reached out and touched his chest. “Real as in solid.”

He caught her hand, trapped it against his skin. Her touch burned. “Do you know what this means, Cara?” He wanted to pull her close, smell the way his scent clung to her skin. Wanted to take her again, even harder than before.

He flung her hand aside, harder than he meant to, so she was thrown off balance and stumbled back, sitting on the bed bonelessly and abruptly.

Guilt panged through him, but she jabbed him in the chest, this time aggressively. “I don’t. You’re supposed to be my teacher. So teach me.”

“It means we have no fucking choice about being together. The magic’s taken away our choice just when we thought we had one.

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