Deep Kiss of Winter by Cole Kresley & Showalter Gena

Deep Kiss of Winter by Cole Kresley & Showalter Gena

Author:Cole, Kresley & Showalter, Gena [Cole, Kresley & Showalter, Gena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Vampires, Adult, Paranormal, paranormal romance, Anthologies
ISBN: 9781451600056
Google: xM7VcoGOscsC
Amazon: 1451600054
Goodreads: 7872180
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-10-13T07:00:00+00:00


THIRTY-NINE

DANII SAT ON HER THRONE, THINKING ABOUT WITCHES--and abdication.

I could meet with Mariketa the Awaited, bring her a bucketful of softball-size diamonds, and ask her to put me on her list.

Even if Murdoch wasn't keen on waiting fifty years, reserving a spot couldn't hurt.

And Danii could return to Val Hall, now that she could live in New Orleans safe from assassins. She'd add some serious tonnage to her A/C and really get some cold cranking.

Maybe she could be happy there. It would be even harder staying in Louisiana so fresh from the cold. But fall had arrived there, at least.

Was she an idiot even to contemplate relinquishing her throne-- and her new life, tucked away amid the freezing security of Icergard? Could she truly leave behind an ice world where she lived among her own kind, to seek a vampire she could never touch?

Over and over, Danii recalled the look in his eyes when he'd yelled for her to come back that night.

Yes. She would try once more to convince him that they could--

"My queen," one of her ladies-in-waiting said as she hastened into the throne room. "Come quickly. There's a stranger in Icergard. He crossed the White Death. . . ."

When Murdoch woke, he lay in a bed in a bizarre room of ice. Though it was lighter and quieter here out of the wind, the temperature wasn't warmer.

He was wearing new pants and a coat of sorts that kept him from freezing. Someone had cleaned him and bandaged his frostbitten hands. He must be within Icergard. Which meant she was near. Have to get to her. He labored to rise--

Jadian strode into the room. "So, it is you. Why have you come to our realm?" His expression betrayed no surprise, no emotion whatsoever.

This is the bastard who knows what it's like to kiss Daniela.

And I can't kill him. Yet.

Murdoch managed a sitting position. "I seek Daniela." His words were hoarse, his body still exhausted.

Jadian crossed his arms over his chest. "Why would I ever let one such as you near her?"

"I just need to speak to her. And then, if she still doesn't want to see me, I'll never bother her again." What a lie--

Daniela entered. And Murdoch sucked in a breath.

She was more stunning than he'd ever seen her, her body bedecked in diamonds. Her hair was wild beneath a band of ice and jewels--the crown from Daniela's memories, her mother's.

To see her again. These mere days had felt like eternity.

She looked dazed to find him here. Surely she had to know he'd come for her.

He couldn't read her expression. Was she not pleased at all to see him? Then his heart sank as comprehension took hold. I'm too late.

Oh, gods, Murdoch was here. He was wild-eyed, with his lips and hands frostbitten and his face abraded.

He'd crossed the White Death? To come for me.

Jadian was eerily calm. "I say we throw him back out and let the cold take him."

Pointedly ignoring that, she said, "Murdoch, how did you get here?"

"I followed your memories.



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