Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black

Author:Shayla Black [Black, Shayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, fantasy, Adult
ISBN: 9781936596133
Google: D5xRLwEACAAJ
Amazon: B0087FR12K
Goodreads: 15904695
Publisher: Shelley Bradley LLC
Published: 2012-05-15T21:19:15+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lucan emerged from the bedroom. Shaking, he closed his eyes and braced himself against the wall. Leaving Anka to Shock’s dubiously tender mercies once had been the bloody hardest thing he’d ever done. The second time around, knowing that Anka might accept the prat as her true mate forever, was much harder. His only consolation now? Anka and the strength of the love they’d shared for over a century. His mate mourning had been deep because she had been everything to him. If he’d ever given her any cause to doubt that, he’d castigate himself eternally. As it was, he felt plenty of guilt for not being there when Mathias abducted her. And for not understanding her needs before their mating had been cut brutally short.

If Shock emerged, defeated, any time in the next ten minutes, Lucan swore with everything inside him that he would embrace and honor Anka’s yearnings. He would take care of her, no matter what.

“You look green,” Bram drawled from a leather wingback chair just outside the door.

Lucan quickly explained everything Millie said after his departure. After Bram picked his jaw up off his chest, he sent Lucan a solemn stare. “So now you wait?”

“Now I wait.” He fucking hated it and didn’t know how the hell he’d stand it.

“Drink?”

“No. If the few I’ve already had haven’t relaxed me, nothing will. But I am her true mate. I have to be.”

“Perhaps that’s the reason neither you nor Anka have truly let go. Sabelle told me that even when Anka appeared indifferent, her thoughts were often wrapped entirely around you. I don’t know what’s driven her to make half the decisions she has.”

“Fear? Maybe she thinks that too much has happened and that she can’t come home again. She’s scarred. That bastard flayed her flesh wide open and drained her so that she couldn’t heal. She feels less than perfect, though in my eyes, there’s no one more so. But I’ve got eight minutes more to find out if I’ll have the opportunity to convince her of that.”

Bram nodded and didn’t try to fill the silence.

Anka screamed into the soundless void a moment later, making the hair on the back of his neck stand up. Her suffering ripped at his composure. Lucan paced nervously, wanting to rip down that door and hold her. He would slay dragons for her, damn it, if she would let him.

Shock growled something low and short. A demand. A crash followed, then another horrific scream. A bump very much like someone hitting the wall resounded next. Shock cursed. All the while, Lucan held his breath, hoping Anka would come to her senses and realize that he was the only man for her.

“It doesn’t sound as if Shock is having an easy time of it,” Bram observed.

“No.” Thank God.

Then all fell quiet again. Lucan tried not to take that as a bad sign and fought to erase the frown creasing his face.

“Why do you suppose Morganna hit Anka with a fertility spell?” Bram asked to distract him.

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