Inescapable by Elle Thorne

Author:Elle Thorne [Thorne, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbed Borders Pres
Published: 2016-11-29T06:00:00+00:00

Étienne walked up the cabin’s ramp. The place he’d been turned looked the same. “So, about shifters. The ones in Paris, they said shifters were born, not turned.”

“Did you dispel their thoughts? Or did you tell them how you came to be one?”

“I did not tell them.”

The door to Latrice’s cabin opened.

Out stepped Lucia. “Tell them what?”

“You are eavesdropping,” Latrice said, hugging their daughter, fully grown, beautiful, her tigress’s spirit was a white glow in Lucia’s eyes. Her dark hair long, in loose braids.

“It’s not eavesdropping if you can’t help it.” Lucia gave a half-shrug that reminded Étienne of the time he’d been in Paris.

So very Old World European.

“You look well,” he told her, beaming with pride at the composed and confident woman before him. She was a full grown woman, that with her shifter blood and her witch blood, had barely aged.

“As do you. You hardly appear to be as old as you surely must be.”

“I didn’t know you were coming to Louisiana,” Étienne said, not trying to make her feel guilty, but definitely feeling slighted, since his only child didn’t tell him her travel plans.

“One could say the same of you,” Lucia countered.

Étienne nodded. She had a point.

“I’m surprised to see you here,” Lucia added.

“I had demons to put to rest,” he said.

Lucia glanced between them. “I hope my mother isn’t one of those demons.”

“I bear no ill feelings toward your mother.” Étienne was puzzled. “What would give you that idea?”

“I was born a shifter,” Lucia said, her voice low. “You, you had… different circumstances.”

“You told her?” Étienne asked

“She deserves to know. Of all people, second to you, she deserves to know.”

Étienne pondered this. It was true. Lucia did deserve to know her heritage. “Anyone else?”

Latrice shook her head. “I’ll take it to my death.”

Étienne turned back to his daughter. “What brought you to New Orleans? How long will you stay? What are you doing with yourself these days?”

“Staying out of trouble.”

He picked up on the fact she was not going to tell him anything else, and still persisted. “Where are you headed after you leave here?”

Lucia studied him long and hard.

They’d never bonded the way he’d wanted to as father and daughter, but it wasn’t surprising.

“Quake, first. Then I’m going north again.”

Latrice gave Étienne a look as though she commiserated with him. As if she had the same sort of relationship with their daughter, who’d been conceived under odd circumstances, and raised in even stranger ones, spending more of her formative years with teachers at schools than she had with her parents.

Maybe one day, they’d have a visit about how his life had been, no mother, raised by a grandmother, becoming a shifter, being free.

One day.

Maybe.

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