Dalir's Salvation by Nina Crespo

Author:Nina Crespo [Crespo, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

As Dalir lay in the sleigh bed with Ari, he glided his hand up and down her back. The erotic mix of soap, shampoo, and the musky scent of desire surrounded them. The power he’d released during their intense lovemaking still heightened his senses and his craving for Ari.

She adjusted her head on his shoulder. “Tell me more about who you are and where you’re from.”

Dalir kissed the top of her head. He wouldn’t make the same mistake as before. He’d tell her everything this time, no matter how hard or difficult it became to confess. Stroking over her hip through the sheet, he settled on where to start. “Like I said before, my home is another dimension called Alandia. My kind are called ancients. We possess certain gifts like the ability to travel time.”

“How does it happen? Do you just speed around from place to place?”

“Not quite.” Based on her experience coming to The Drift, it made sense she’d see it that way. “Time and dimensions aren’t just a straight line of past to present to future. It’s overlapping and infinite.” He opened his hand and willed a small, glowing golden orb to appear in his palm.

Ari’s eyes widened. “What is that?”

“A portal into time.”

She reached for the orb but stopped. “Is it okay to touch it?” She chuckled. “I don’t want to get sucked away to the Stone Age.”

“Go ahead. It’s perfectly safe.”

Her fingers skimmed along the surface.

As an extension of him, the energy inside the of the orb leaped and gravitated toward her touch. He tamped down need.

“But it’s so small. How do you travel in it?”

“Not in it. Through it.” With a silent command, he widened the sphere to the size of a basketball and hollowed it into a shimmering tunnel with no end. “I’d have to make it bigger for phasing, but within that space exists time in its smallest factions. I can see every one of them and follow their path to where they lead into the future.”

“And the past?”

“No.” He closed the tunnel and reabsorbed the sphere in his palm. “Always forward, never back. I can also extract power from time and use it as a force.”

“Are you an explorer then? Is that why you came here?” She stroked her hand over his palm.

He intertwined their fingers. “I’m here because I broke the law.”

“I’m sure you had a good reason.”

“How can you be certain?”

Ari’s gaze didn’t waver. “How you carry yourself. The way you think. You live by a code. You also inspire loyalty. My friend’s fiancés and the rest of the guys aren’t gullible. They wouldn’t follow you unless you were honorable. And I wouldn’t be with you now.”

His heart swelled as he traced a path down her cheek. He’d willingly fall on his sword than lose the absolute certainty about him he saw in her gaze. He leaned in for a kiss.

“Uh-uh. I know that look. If we start that, I’ll never get the story. What law did you break to put you here?”

He kissed the fingers she’d pressed to his mouth.

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