Down into the Pit (Stones of Fire Book 2) by Sarah Ashwood

Author:Sarah Ashwood [Ashwood, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I was upset, angry, maybe a little embarrassed, and—even though I hated to admit it—a little hurt. Why couldn’t Carter at least try to see things my way? This wasn’t our first go-round on the topic, but since then I’d tried to educate myself. I’d tried to see things his way, hadn’t I? I acknowledged his life was difficult and dangerous. I admitted I had no idea what it was like to hide in the shadows like he did. I had no idea what it would be like to live a life so full of fear of your heritage—an unescapable heritage—that you were leery of having sex or getting married or establishing a long-term relationship. I didn’t know anything about that. But I had seen pain and suffering and hardship, even if on a different level. I’d made up my mind years ago to bring healing where I could.

Then why don’t you try bringing healing to him?

The notion actually stopped me in my tracks as I stomped down the corridor.

Is that my responsibility? I argued.

It wasn’t. Not any more than those cancer patients or sick or dying people were my responsibility. Not until I’d made them my responsibility. Truthfully, I didn’t owe those people, being total strangers, any more than the general compassion of one human being to another. I didn’t owe them personally, in other words. Carter, though—I did owe him something. It was true I’d helped save his life, but he was still pretty far ahead of me on that score. Not to mention his marrying me to protect me from potential legal trouble. Then going above and beyond that by making sure my family was hidden from any potential trouble with Nosizwe. And when that had fallen through, my family was relocated and safeguarded again.

I sighed heavily, standing there in the corridor, and dropped my face in my palm to rub my forehead.

This is too much. I don’t know how to help Carter. I don’t know how to heal him. What am I supposed to be able to do for him? He doesn’t even like me. Right now he probably hates me.

I suspected that wasn’t entirely true, but Carter’s changing moods made him notoriously difficult for me to handle, to decipher. Maybe having variable moods went along with the ability to shift from one physical form to another. Or maybe he was like me: stuck with a person he’d never considered being stuck with, that he wasn’t sure how to read or manage, and who consequently challenged every preconceived notion he’d ever had of their kind.

Not that I’d ever really had many preconceived notions of shapeshifters, prior to becoming entangled with Sean Costas and his followers. Most of mine had been garnered from common lore of vampires turning into bats or lycanthropes turning into werewolves during a full moon. Carter had mocked that the first night I’d met him. Having been around him and other shifters since then, I knew why.

I was so lost in my

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