His Wicked Seduction by Jade Lee

Author:Jade Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Kit found his footing, but his world was teetering out of control. His vision wasn't even clear as the lawn seemed to bob and weave before him. He was sinking in an ocean of emotions as wave after wave of fury swamped his consciousness. Never before had he come face-to-face with all he'd lost.

"Kit!" It was Maddy's voice, a single high note of worry, but it did little to beat back the tide.

He thought he'd dealt with everything that had happened. He thought he'd come to accept his lot in life, but now he saw so clearly what had been stolen from him. It wasn't that he wanted Scheherazade. As a woman, she was little more than a fond memory for him. But her life, her children, her obvious joy in all that surrounded her—that is what he'd lost the day his bastard cousin had thrown him onto a boat.

"That boy," he rasped as he stumbled in the direction of the back house door. "He should have been mine. This life!" He spun wildly, trying to indicate the house, the grounds, the joy he saw in every line of Scher's pregnant body. "This life was mine!"

A dark figure steadied him, a masculine hand that restrained as much as supported. Brandon, of course, one of the two cousins who had taken everything from him. First Michael declared him dead and shipped him off to Barbary pirates. Then Brandon stole his wife and child.

"Leave me alone!" he screamed, shoving hard at his cousin's form.

Brandon rocked back on his heels, but he did not release his hold. "You have lost yourself, Kit," he said.

"Myself?" he said with a wild laugh. "I have lost everything!" He straightened and twisted his arm, easily breaking Brandon's grip. "Stolen!"

"I stole nothing!" Brandon snarled, and inside Kit, the slave crowed. Finally a fight. Finally an outlet to the fury that seethed within him.

Kit crouched before his cousin, his hands loose as he judged the best place to grab the taller man and drag him down to the ground. Once there, no one could best him. He saw Brandon read his intention. The man's eyes widened in surprise, but that in no way slowed his reaction. By the time Kit had decided on his attack, Brandon had tightened his own hands into fists and was angling for a better position on the terrace.

And then a large pregnant woman pushed her way between them. "Stop it! Both of you!" Then she unleashed her fury at Kit. "How could you think he stole me from you? We thought you dead!"

"He's not thinking," came another voice—his angel's—from the side. "Can't you understand? He's angry. He's lost so much, he just wants someone to blame."

"Fine," Brandon said as he gently set his wife aside. "Blame me. I courted her. I seduced her. And then I married her and built a life I never thought possible."

Kit landed his blows, one to Brandon's soft belly and the second to his jaw. Slave howled with glee as his cousin dropped like a stone.

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