Dangerously Yours by Lark Brennan

Author:Lark Brennan [Brennan, Lark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626818323
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2015-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Lex marched up the path swearing under her breath. How could she have left herself so open to him? Had her subconscious wanted him to know how she felt? Christ, how did she feel?

The sun was no longer directly overhead, but there was still plenty of time for him to work with the dolphins, assuming he didn’t change his mind now that he’d acquired his new powers. No, he wouldn’t go back on their deal and she still hadn’t fulfilled all of hers.

The problem was she hadn’t expected to learn so much about him when he let her into his head. She’d used a relaxing technique Adrien had taught her to make him open to the projections of her memories and in doing that had stripped away the armor he’d built over a lifetime to cover his deepest emotions. That shell was a lot like the shield she was going to teach him to build. Sure, she’d figured the guy was suppressing hurt from his past, just not how much or how ingrained those feelings were.

Maybe it was sensing her own loneliness and isolation reflected back from him that had touched her. Maybe it was sharing the victory of him using his power. Either way, the revelation was the same. She was falling in love with him.

She stopped and gazed out over the sea to the north. The angry dark clouds over the open ocean indicated a squall in the distance. Could the weather front be affected by a blast of delphic or orphic energy? She made a mental note to ask Bodie. The possibility he could change the weather thrilled her.

The only fair thing to do was to teach him to use a psychic shield. It should protect him from the worst of the negative effects of the red orphic in the dolphins. It would certainly also block Mark’s telepathy and her brother would be pissed as hell about that. So would Adrien. She cringed. Too bad. Bodie deserved protection and privacy, even from her family. She’d made him a promise and she’d keep it, no matter the price.

Stiffening her spine, she began walking again. The skin on the back of her neck prickled and her muscles tensed. The unmistakable scent of magic drifted on the breeze. Magic, not majik. Someone had been here recently. With slow, deliberate steps she approached a crossroad, carefully inspecting the scraggly foliage along the way for signs of a spell. Someone had crushed a stick on the path, and near the cross the residue of the magic grew stronger.

From childhood the Durand were taught to smell and taste sorcery—not unlike how Bodie smelled and tasted delphic and orphic energy—so they could detect the majik of their Dissembler enemies. Years of Protector training had honed her innate ability to identify the degree of malice and malignancy in a spell. Her senses told her the magic performed here had positive intent, so she walked on.

Something still remained where the two paths crossed. With each

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