Jade Tiger by Reese Jenn

Author:Reese, Jenn [Reese, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Martial Arts, Romance, Adventure, Kung fu
Published: 2011-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

Ian gave Xia the spare bedroom next to Shan's, though her teacher had wanted to stay in the same room with Shan. Back at the Jade Circle sanctuary, the women had always shared rooms and beds with each other unless they were married or had children. Shan had almost agreed to Xia's wish, but something stopped her. Maybe Xia was right, and she had been tainted in a bad way by living in America. But the freedoms she'd had growing up were exactly the sort of things that the Jade Circle had been fighting for.

Shan walked over to the open window. A breeze welcomed her. She sat on the windowsill and let the breeze cool the sweat on her face.

What a day. What a night. What a week.

Being around Ian brought out feelings she'd thought had been lost to her forever. His presence tugged at her heart and her body, and they brought her mind kicking and screaming along with them.

On the other hand, she'd never been closer to recovering the Jade Circle animals. Their absence had driven every decision she'd made since she came to America, and now the path to their recovery lay before her. The tiger in her growled, eager to leap forward and reap its destiny.

How could she be so certain about one thing, and so uncertain about another?

Shan laughed. Yin and yang. No love without hate, no happiness without sadness, no decision without indecision. The Chinese were so damn smart about everything.

Shan walked to the bed and peeled the remnants of her silk nightgown over her head. Ick. Chlorine, blood from her nose, grass stains, and two big rips up the sides. She tossed it in the little enameled trashcan by the nightstand and started digging through the clothes Geof had put on her bed.

Bingo.

Shan's underwear followed the nightgown into the trash, and she pulled on a fresh pair. Clean underwear was better than sex, Shan thought. At least, from what she knew of sex so far. She found a soft oversized T-shirt in light blue and pulled it on.

Absolute heaven.

Shan moved the rest of the clothes into the wingback chair, then searched for the crystal ashtray she'd used as a missile weapon earlier. She found it embedded halfway into the wall. In the end, she decided it looked better there than the big hole she'd create by removing it.

Besides, none of the Dashells smoked.

Shan climbed onto the bed and stretched. After so much activity, so much yang, her body certainly needed its fair share of yin. Then why was her mind so busy? Images flittered in and out of her brain like butterflies.

The dead security guard at the university. Buckley's leering smile. Ian's ruffled hair. Fred and Ginger, the Chow Chows. The jade tiger at her studio. The jade crane in its bag. The jade dragon at the tip of her fingers. One-eye. Xia.

Her mother.

Shan rolled to her feet, pulled back the bed's layers of sheets and comforters, and crawled into its warmth. The bed was huge, and canopied, and made her feel like a little girl.

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