Denys, Jennifer - Wife for Three [Duoterra] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Jennifer Denys

Author:Jennifer Denys [Denys, Jennifer]
Language: por
Format: epub
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-25T15:01:34+00:00

“Ahhhhhhhhhh!”

The scream went right through him, and Eric’s whole body froze for an instant. Dear God—that’s Brianna. What’s happened? She was here a little while ago. Then he remembered she had gone outside to get something from the overgrown herb garden. It was three days since Curt had spent the night with Brianna, and it appeared to have gone well. At least, she was still there. But where was she now?

The lethargy left his body as the mug he had been holding slipped out of his hand and crashed to the floor, splintering as it hit the wood.

Turning, he pulled out a kitchen drawer to grab a knife and everything went flying onto the floor. He swore in his panic and swiftly bent to grab a kitchen utensil, then, rising to his feet, he swung his legs over the table, one hand on the tabletop, and racing to the front door, he flung it open. The door slammed back against the wall, the noise sounding very loud in the silence.

Eric winced. He was listening out for noise from Brianna again, but there was nothing. He ran around to the back of the house where the herb garden was.

There was no sign of her. Dammit! Where is she?

He then noticed the gate at the back of the garden was open and his legs went a little wobbly. Oh, God. Did she leave the grounds and go into the woods?

His heart pounded violently in his chest. It was called “the wild region” for a good reason. There were various wild animals on the planet that could kill. In that region, it was the wilderbeast that were the most dangerous, as they could gore you to death, but all their herd Wife for Three

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was down in the pasture where Adam and Curt were checking on them. They were about to take some of them into town to sell so were making sure the chosen ones were marked accordingly. There were various other dangerous creatures between their farm and town, like the red spider whose bite was lethal, but his father had cleared all the nests when he had originally settled there.

Panic rose in Eric. Christ, has the wolf-cat ventured back again?

They generally slunk away when people moved into their territory, but when cornered or protecting their young, they were vicious, and the last time Eric was in town, he’d learned of a wolf-cat attacking a teenage boy who had been hunting and had gotten separated from his friend. That incident hadn’t been all that far from town, and Brianna wasn’t that much bigger than the boy, who had never been found. His friend was still traumatized by the screams he had heard.

His throat dry with fear, he ran out of the gate and started up the hill, urgently calling for Brianna as he ran. He had just rounded the bend of the path when he saw her staggering toward him holding her left arm across her chest, cradling it with the other.

Oh, God. I knew it.

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