Ignited (Sense Thieves) by Corrine Jackson

Author:Corrine Jackson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-04-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Outside, cars and people surged down the busy street. I shoved past a man in a suit to catch up with Asher halfway down the block.

He spun around when I said his name. “Damn it, Remy. Get the hell away from me!”

He turned on his heel and charged ahead.

I ignored his command and spoke to his back. “You know I was never unfaithful to you. You were everything to me.”

The muscles in his shoulders tensed, but he didn’t slow. “I mean it. I don’t want to talk to you,” he said.

That hurt, but I didn’t let it sway me. I couldn’t let him go off on his own like this. Aside from the danger, I couldn’t stand that he doubted how I felt about him. “When my grandfather’s men shot you, and I thought I watched you die, I wanted to die, too. And when they tortured me, I hoped they would kill me because it hurt too much to be alive without you.”

He stopped so abruptly that I almost ran into him. The glare on his face threatened to burn me alive when he did an about-face. “How long did you feel that way before you bonded to Gabe?”

“You can’t blame me for this. I didn’t plan it. Gabe was my friend and nothing more.”

Asher’s eyes darkened. “Was your friend,” he repeated in a dangerous voice. “You admit something’s happened?”

“The day we arrived in London. Gabe found out that we broke up and he asked me to give him a chance,” I admitted.

“And what did you tell him?”

“That I couldn’t hurt you like that.” Asher’s expression lightened infinitesimally. Honesty compelled me to barrel forward. “But I do have feelings for him. I realized it while he was gone these last few days. I told him as much last night.”

Asher threw back his head like he would shout at the sky, but he merely gritted his teeth.

I continued. “I asked him to give me time. To give you time, Asher. Neither of us wanted to hurt you.”

“Bang-up job you did, Remy. Finding out like this made everything better.” I cringed at the hate in his voice. “Go back to him, and stay the fuck away from me.”

He struck out at me with his words and then walked away. Walked away like he had been doing for months, while I begged him to love me like a pathetic girl. The injustice of it made it difficult to swallow his rage.

I yelled at his retreating back. “Right. I forgot that you were the honorable one in our relationship. The one who never lied. You said we were forever, Asher, but that wasn’t true, was it? Who lied first? Did you ever care for me, or was I just your ticket to feeling human again? Lucky for you, you hate it so much, and you can blame me for that, too!”

A woman pushing a stroller on the opposite side of the street eyed me, and I flushed with embarrassment. I’d been reduced to screaming at Asher on a London street when he wanted nothing to do with me.

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