Dark Hunter 12 - Upon The Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-04T19:52:04+00:00

"Not after as much

experience as she's had."

He didn't want to argue that

point. He was just glad Lyssa was gone. "Did you learn anything from this?"

"Yes. I learned that we

can defeat him before he kills you. That's at least a start." She was definitely an optimist. He on the other hand… "Call me crazy, then again compared to Lyssa, Sybil was normal, but all I got out of this meeting was a headache. Actual directions on how to kill him would have been nice."

"True, but in this case,

I think we got the best we could hope for."

"Then why did we waste

our time?"

She patted him indulgently on

his cheek. "Who said we wasted time?"

"I do, for the

record."

"And for the record,

you're wrong. Trust me."

Yeah, sure. He wasn't about to

make that mistake. "No offense, but the last person I trusted tried to barbecue me—personally and professionally."

Instead of angering her, his

words turned her expression soft and gentle. "I'm not a jerk, Aidan. I wouldn't have come to you if I wanted you hurt."

It made sense when she said

it, but he couldn't shake the bitterness inside him that didn't want to get burned again. He was so tired of people playing him, using him to get what they wanted, then casting him aside the minute he displeased them. He wasn't disposable waste. He was a human being with feelings just like everyone else.

Afraid of what Leta might do

to him and afraid of his past, he reached out to touch her cheek. Her skin was so soft, her lips inviting. There had been a time in his life when he wouldn't have hesitated to make a move on a woman like this. A time when he'd have had her laughing and naked in his bed.

Now that part of himself was

dead. He would never again be so carefree and full of life. His soul had been kicked to the ground where it was still mired by memories and pain so profound that he wondered if he would ever be able to resuscitate any part of the man he'd once been.

Did he even want to? There was

something to be said for being numb. There was no liability. No harm to himself or anyone else. It was a nice place to live once you got past the loneliness.

But as he stared into those eyes so blue and sincere, all the isolation of his life hit him square in the chest. If I have gone insane would it be so bad to kiss her?

Would it? And before he could

second-guess himself, he dipped his head to taste the sweetest lips he'd ever known. Leta buried her hands in Aidan's soft hair as her breath mingled with his. For a mortal man, he knew how to kiss. She could feel the steel of his body pressing against hers, feel the heat of his embrace all the way to her immortal soul.

She shouldn't be doing this.

Yet she couldn't make herself stop. It'd been way too long since she last touched any man. Since she'd allowed any passion to touch her life.

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