Dark Enemy Captive (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series Book 5) by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: I.T. Lucas
Published: 2015-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20: AMANDA

The storm of conflicting emotions that kept Amanda tossing and turning all through the night eventually had given her one hell of a headache.

Or maybe it was all that crying before she’d finally fallen asleep. After Kian had forced her to face the fact that her paramour was responsible for her nephew’s murder, she’d cried for hours.

To be frank, the thought had flitted through her mind before, but she’d shoved it aside, doing the cowardly thing and refusing to let it sink in. And until Kian had shoved it in her face, she’d gotten away with it.

Same way she usually got away with ignoring almost everything she considered potentially disturbing.

After her son’s tragic death… was it almost two centuries ago? It still hurt so bad… it had been the only way she’d managed to keep herself afloat and not sink into depression. Except, with time, she became so adroit at this strategy that anything disconcerting or unpleasant no longer registered at all.

It was like she was wearing a coat of Teflon—nothing stuck.

And nothing got absorbed either.

Which, come to think, might have been the reason behind the hollowness she felt inside.

Nothing about her was real. She was a made-up persona. Most of the time she thought nothing of it; on the contrary, she thought of herself as larger than life. But the truth was that she was kind of cartoonish.

Pretty on the outside, empty on the inside.

Trouble was, she had no idea who she really was.

After pretending for so long, she had forgotten. And what’s worse, Amanda feared she wouldn’t like the real her if she ever found her.

The persona she had created was great, and she liked being that woman. Carefree, dramatic, lustful, smart, not to mention beautiful… pretty cool, if she may say so herself. Unfortunately, the pretense didn’t run deep enough—more than skin deep but not all the way down to her shriveled soul.

With a sigh, she gave up on sleep and got up.

Dawn was on the horizon, the wispy rosy-pink like a whisper of hope against the backdrop of gloomy darkness. Donning a warm robe, Amanda opened the sliding door to the terrace and stepped out into the chilly air. As the cold seeped through the fleece, giving her goosebumps, she tightened the robe against her body.

A faint ocean scent was riding on the breeze, cutting through the morning fog and evoking a strange longing for the sea—a voyage that would take her far away from this place and the hard choices that were weighing her down.

Choices.

Not really, more like lack of.

Now that Mark’s murder was firmly pinned on Dalhu, Amanda couldn’t stomach the idea of being anywhere near the guy.

Trouble was, she couldn’t imagine going back to her old life either. Or living without what Dalhu had given her…

The intimacy, the sense of connection, the mind-blowing pleasure…

The unrelenting devotion.

What were the chances of her ever finding something like this again? A man who made her feel like a princess for real? Forever…

Andrew?

Yeah, there was some attraction there.

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