Death's Redemption (The Eternal Lovers Series) by Marie Hall

Author:Marie Hall [Hall, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-06-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Since reapers traveled the globe harvesting souls, there was never a guarantee of making it back to faerie. Sithens—entrances into the fae realm—were only in a few spots around the world. Unlike most of his brothers and sisters, Frenzy had always planned ahead for the nights when he couldn’t make it back home. He had homes scattered all over, cabins that he hadn’t visited in decades, sometimes centuries, keeping them guarded from rust or decay with wards and spells.

Gathering up what few supplies they had, he wrapped Mila in his arms and transported them to a small cabin lost in the middle of the redwood forest. She didn’t speak, just clung to his back, still practically naked except for a pair of his boxers and a T-shirt.

That he didn’t mind at all.

He smirked, but quickly turned serious again.

Something had happened to him, to them, back there in George’s woods. The sex had been incredible, but that wasn’t the difference. Perhaps he hadn’t been fair to her, expecting her to adapt to this new lifestyle without incident. Because in his head, things were as they were. There were no grays in his world; it was all black and white, yes and no. Life was what it was, and he accepted it and moved on.

Adrianna’s death had taught him that. There were things he could not change, no matter how badly he might want to. But maybe he was wrong.

It irked him to think so. Old as he was, he’d prided himself on seeing truth for what it is. Inevitable. Unyielding.

And yet staring into Mila’s eyes, he’d felt like he’d glimpsed a vision of her soul. Of the ugliness that she’d battled through the years. It’d been humbling and disconcerting because there was so much pain inside her it’d stolen the breath from his body. He understood that pain, understood the need to guard and keep others at bay. Far from your heart, from your soul…to not let others in because it hurt too damn much.

He’d closed himself off after Adrianna. Become a monster, become vicious and so cold that eventually it’d been second nature. Eventually he’d turned all emotion off; any need he’d ever desired to know and be known had died with her.

But this little other, this baby…she understood that need. He’d read the truth of it in her eyes and he couldn’t help but respond in kind.

The sun was just beginning to set, casting the world in long shadows. The woods were eerily quiet, a rolling white fog curling slowly along jewel green moss. This land did not belong to faerie, but it filled him with peace all the same. Made the angry hornet’s nest of too many thoughts quiet down, helped him to take an easier breath. A fae was tied to nature, to the balance and harmony of colors and the purity of a land undisturbed by the poison of those who only sought to control and possess it.

Trees with clay-red-colored bark towered above them, standing like sentinels, guarding them from prying eyes.

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