Farlands Prodigal (Ultimate Passage Book 5) by Elle Thorne

Author:Elle Thorne [Thorne, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbed Borders Press
Published: 2019-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

The food had been delicious and filling. Cinia settled back against the oversized, high-backed bench she shared with Qalen. She leaned against him, fighting the urge to lay her head on his shoulder and rest.

No one had talked “business.” They’d enjoyed the meal and left questions unanswered and curiosities at bay. But now dinnertime was over, all of them as one—except the still drowsy Cinia—leaned forward, as if eager to discuss matters and bring everyone up to speed.

It seemed Qalen had the most pressing matter at hand, for as soon as fingers had been wiped clean and dishes set aside, he gazed at Thane with an inquisitive expression. “You look like him. I have his wings.”

Cinia did a doubletake. That wasn’t even a question.

It seemed Thane wasn’t concerned with the matter as he cleared his throat and began to speak.

“I’m Dumarian. So is he.”

It seemed no one wanted to say Saraz’s name, as if saying it would summon him, though Cinia didn’t believe that for a second.

Thane continued. “And you are half Dumarian. His son.”

Qalen nodded, but he didn’t appear happy. Cinia wondered if he had hoped a different Dumarian was his father. She certainly would have.

“Dumarian are another race, from another planet.” Thane paused, chewed on his lip as if pondering what he would say next. “I am part of a group called the Brethren. We remained secret from humans but were sent to Earth to protect them. We were not to be intermingling or procreating with them. Two of the Brethren fell in love with a human. The same human.”

Thane paused, shaking his head, as if this were difficult for him to understand.

“It’s a complicated story, and there are not many of us who are privy to it, but Saraz was one of those. The other one was a head Brethren. Centuries later, the love triangle came to the attention of the Brethren. How it was kept secret so long is beyond me, but that was long before my time as I had not yet become one of the Brethren.”

Cinia was reeling. Learning Saraz was centuries old was so overwhelming. She leaned forward, fully engrossed in the history Thane was revealing, while questions built in her mind.

“Please continue.” It was easy to see from Qalin’s inquisitive expression, he also had questions.

Thane nodded. “Centuries later, the woman who’d been at the center of the love triangle was long dead. Saraz was silently overseeing the descendants of this woman. A breed that…” He took Ali’s hand. “A breed you know as the Asazi. A breed that was half-Dumarian, half-human. Beautiful skin that shimmered and changed colors with their emotions. The males had wings. But one day, this new breed came to the attention of the Brethren. They exiled Saraz and his descendants to this planet we are on now.”

Qalen glanced at Cinia while Thane had been talking about the Asazi. She’d locked gazes with him, now unable to read the emotions in his eyes.

Thane continued. “Sadly, Saraz was punished, but not rightfully so.

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