Fade by A.K. Morgen

Author:A.K. Morgen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781620070857
Publisher: Whampa, LLC
Published: 2012-09-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The pain hit at once, exploding out from the point of impact. I groaned and rolled on my side, breathing hard. I wasn’t immediately sure why the wolf leapt, but his entrance hurt. A lot. I groaned again.

Dace struggled against the animal, fighting to pull him back and cage him. The wolf ignored him. He was pleased with himself. Pleased he’d slipped free and flooded my mind fully for once. He wasn’t trying to force Dace to change. He didn’t want that at all. He wanted me.

I cradled my aching head in my hands.

The wolf stopped howling. I clearly saw him hesitate. He looked right at me, right through me. I don’t know how, but his eyes seemed to meet mine from the inside. As suddenly as our gazes locked, horror washed through me, coming from him.

He whined. The self-loathing sound caused goose bumps to pebble my skin. And then he fled back into his corner as quickly as he’d leapt out of it.

“Fuck,” Dace swore savagely, breathing hard. He stepped around the table and stopped, seemingly scared to touch me. “Arionna, love, are you okay?”

I wanted to assure him I was fine, but I couldn’t form the words. My head still hurt, but more importantly, I still felt the wolf’s emotions, like the crack existing between mine and Dace’s minds had reshaped itself to include him now that he’d broken through for once.

His thoughts trickled into me, and I understood what Dace meant about the wolf not being the same as him. He wasn’t the same. Not exactly. He was part of Dace, but he was his own entity too. His own consciousness. His own mind. His own desires. He and Dace belonged to one another, but not. They were supposed to be the same—maybe—supposed to be whole, but for some reason they weren’t. The truth flowed through the newly expanded crack.

Dace’s horror and panic knotted tightly with a matching horror and panic from the wolf. He knew he’d hurt me, and he was sorry. Tears welled in my eyes, their joint emotions overwhelming me.

“Arionna, please.” Dace hovered in front of me, his panic coming through loud and clear. “Please, talk to me.”

“I’m … .” The words stuck. I cleared my throat then tried again, “I’m fine.”

“You’re hurt.”

“I’m fine,” I said more firmly than before. I rose to a sitting position. The movement sent shards of pain lancing out from where my head hit the table, causing me to wince.

“I’m so, so sorry,” Dace said, squatting down until his eyes were level with mine. Remorse and guilt burned in gorgeous green just as clearly as the emotions whispered through my mind.

“I’m fine, Dace.” I lifted my hand toward him and then thought better of touching him. I let my hand fall. “He didn’t mean to hurt me—”

Dace growled, his eyes hardening.

“I can feel him.” Wonder coursed through me at that. I truly felt him. Like with Dace’s connection to Kalei’s pack, there weren’t words, or even images. But the wolf’s thoughts were there all the same.

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