Edge of Obsession by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane [Crane, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466885325
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

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And this was her chance.

Right here, cross-legged on a raider’s floor, with his heavy warrior’s hand weighting down her leg and her body still soft and hot from before. Helena could tell him everything. The family mission, Krajic’s murder of her parents and his pursuit of her ever since, all the things she’d already lost to give people something most of them didn’t even know they were missing. She could share the burden she’d carried more or less alone since her parents had died. She could let herself believe in the strength he and his raider brothers exhibited so nonchalantly and let all those wide, strong warriors help her shoulder the weight of all this.

Helena had never been so tempted.

She had a single second to think about what to do, how to respond. Less, maybe, while the raider war chief lounged there so close to her in all his bare-chested, offhanded, wolfish might—lulling her into that sweet sense of security while his dark eyes seemed to see too deeply inside of her. Making her think she really was safe¸ after all this time.

That, or he was leading her straight into his trap. Maybe she should have kept her head down and her mouth shut in that courtyard. Maybe she should have stayed with the devil she knew. Maybe trusting this man with anything more than her body was the very height of folly.

And there was something about the fact that Tyr could have killed her as easily as Krajic would, should he get the chance, but hadn’t. She was convinced there was something to that kind of mercy. It wrapped around all the secrets she’d had no choice but to keep all her life and felt a little bit like trust. Or close enough that Helena thought she could throw out part of it, just to see what he’d do. How he’d react.

“I’m going to reconnect the Internet,” she said, and it was amazing how hard it was to sound nonchalant when she was risking everything here and the panic beat at her like a club to the head. “Right from that tablet.”

“The Internet.”

“They must tell those stories here, no matter how far away you are from everything.” Helena opted to ignore the clear danger she could see written all over him. “All the information you could ever want about anything and everything, available in your hands wherever you are, like magic right there on your screen or your tablet or whatever.” She nodded toward the window, though she kept her eyes on him. “Because not all the stars are stars, you know. Some are satellites. We could use them again if we could reach them.”

“I know what the Internet was, asshole.”

She shrugged at that narrow look he aimed at her with an ease she certainly did not feel. “Some people don’t.”

“Our tech heads have always said it was a myth and even if it wasn’t, it was lost forever,” Tyr said after a moment, and there was still that predatory look in his eyes.

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