Legend of the Lakes by Clara O'Connor

Author:Clara O'Connor [O’Connor, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008407711
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Despite his words at the table, Gideon did not spend the night in my bed. In the morning I finally tracked him down to the stables where he was busy saddling a horse.

“You’re leaving?” Was this his response to learning that we might no longer be shackled to each other?

“Nothing so dramatic,” he said, continuing in his task. “I’m going for a ride.”

“You didn’t come to your room last night.”

“Did you miss me?” He slanted a leery look my way.

“Gideon, please.”

“Please what, Cat? What is it you want?” he flung at me, his mood shifting, “You don’t need me anymore, isn’t that right? So I stayed away. Yet here you are. Why?”

“I thought…”

“What? What did you think?” He turned, hemming me in. “That you got what you needed from me? And now I’m discarded, no longer of use.”

I frowned. I had given him his freedom back.

“Was it what your father said?”

“My father didn’t say anything I didn’t already know.”

“Then, why?” Why was he angry? Why had he left me alone last night? He had already known that I had seen Devyn in Avalon, had been okay with it. What had changed?

“You asked the lady to take back the one thing you needed from me as Griffin,” he said into the horse’s neck.

“No.” I went to him and placed a hand on the hunched muscles of his shoulder. “I asked her to give you back your freedom. You shouldn’t have to be tied to me like that. It’s not fair.”

“And am I free? Do you not need me now?”

“I don’t know,” I said. “She told me that needing you was a choice. I don’t know what that means but I feel restored now. Whole.”

He nodded to himself and shrugged off my hand before turning towards me in a way that made me feel like I was the prey he was stalking.

He bent his head and his lips grazed across my collar bone as I stayed frozen in place.

“What do you want?” he asked into my ear. It was a mere whisper, a breath that urged my confession. “Tell me,” he said as his lips brushed across mine. My body melted as my brain swirled, trying to find an answer to give him. Or hide from the one I wasn’t ready to face yet.

His hands reached and tangled with mine by my side before twisting them behind my back as he pulled me into him.

“This?”

I was molten liquid. I looked helplessly up into his glittering eyes in that darkly brutal face.

What did he want me to say? My mouth felt dry, and my heart was pattering like a butterfly’s wings in the cage of my chest. Did I want more? Was he offering more?

At my continued silence, his hot gaze cooled, a flicker of what might have been disappointment crossed his face. Nodding tightly, his body was rigid.

Then I was suddenly free as he mounted the horse and left the stable without another word.

He clattered out of the courtyard and I turned to find that the stable was not as empty as I had thought.

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