Desire Untamed by Palmer Pamela

Author:Palmer, Pamela [Palmer, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061667510
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2009-06-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Lyon stared out over the rough Potomac, the cool wind in his face doing nothing to ease the painful need surging through his body.

Goddess, but he wanted Kara.

He'd been a fool to think he could prep her. Even before the surge of power had burst over him, inflaming every nerve ending, leaving him hard and ready and wanting, he'd known it had been a mistake.

Watching her out here, away from the house and the constant fear that had been riding her, he'd gotten a taste of the woman she'd been before. Before her mother died, before he'd wrenched her from everything she'd known and thrust her into the immortal world of the Ferals.

And he'd become intrigued by her more than ever. Enchanted.

How was he ever going to get over her?

There was an elemental quality to her out here, a wildness, that called to his beast. And a sweetness and strength, despite everything, that drew the man. He would be perfectly content to sit out here for hours every day, watching her. The play of light along her fine bones, the emotions Hitting across her face.

He heard her approach and knew the moment she came to stand by him. For a long time she said nothing, simply stood at his side as if that was the very place she belonged. By sheer dint of will, he kept his hands to himself and didn't pull her closer. He didn't touch her at all. But that in no way meant he wasn't excruciatingly aware of her.

"When were you born exactly?" she asked finally. Her face was turned to the wind, the breeze tugging wisps of hair free from her ponytail to tease her cheek. A cheek he knew to be soft as silk.

"I was born somewhere around 1314. Maybe 1315. Dates were unimportant back then, and no one ever marked my birthday."

She turned to glance at him, her brows drawing together. "Even your mom didn't know?"

Lyon turned back to the river. "My mother was human. She died when I was born."

"I'm sorry. Who raised you?"

"Me."

"You had no one?"

"I had a father. A Therian. But I wouldn't go so far as to say he raised me. He'd been kicked out of the enclaves years before for excessive drinking. He was basically an immortal drunk. He'd have committed suicide a dozen times over if he hadn't been such a coward, and if it hadn't been so damned hard to do. He hated his life. Hated his wife for dying on him."

"And hated his son for killing her?"

He met her too-perceptive gaze, his gut clenching as a vivid memory rose from the distant reaches of his mind.

His dad dumping him, headfirst, into the rain barrel and holding him there until his lungs were full of water and exploding with pain. The summer solstice. The day his mother had died. It had happened every year on the summer solstice, until Lyon finally stopped going back.

He'd never told anyone. "Why would you say that?" he asked sharply.

Kara shrugged and turned back to the water.

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