Legendary Shifter by Barbara J. Hancock

Author:Barbara J. Hancock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-11T18:54:12+00:00

Chapter 11

He navigated the Ether with ease, as did many of his kind. He loved the chill of it against his skin and the vacuum of its hunger as it tried to take his soul. Many said his family was addicted to its constant pull. After all, his ancestral home had been built on the very edge of the world where the veil was most thin, and, even when they weren’t traveling, the hunger of the void was a constant thrill they all experienced from infancy.

Grigori never stayed long away from the rush. He had been the witchblood prince of the Dark Volkhvy since his conception, but he’d been free to come and go as he pleased. He pleased often. Living on the edge of the Ether was nothing compared to traveling through it from place to place all over the globe.

As the son of the Dark Volkhvy king, it was fitting that he rose to prominence as the darkest, most Ether-influenced of all who had come before him. He was too busy taking to worry about the weaker witches who warned him to be careful. He had gloried in every depravity his power would allow until a Russian peasant woman had stood him down.

She’d used love as power. And none of his travels had prepared him for the strength of the shield she bought for her daughter with her blood. Every moment since had felt diminished.

Except the time he’d spent delivering his special promises in Elena Pavlova’s nightmares. More thrilling than challenging the Ether’s inexorable pull, his time with his swan soothed him. The visualization and manifestation of what he wanted to do to her when she was finally in his power had eased his impatience.

She’d taken that away from him.

Grigori paced the length of his quarters. His rooms had been built on the top floor of a complex that almost seemed to be a part of the cliff from which it jutted, an architectural masterpiece of steel and glass and stone. One entire wall of his loft-like space had been made of glass. It faced toward a canyon abyss that no human could have traversed. No human could have seen the shimmer of Ether either, though Grigori stared at it often. It bisected the canyon in a sheet of nearly imperceptible power. At times, when the light and weather provided the exact conditions, the Ether wavered like the northern lights before his rapt attention.

The Ether’s vacuum was the greatest when it was most visible. He’d often been brought to his knees by the pleasure of its hunger. There were times when he’d imagined its hunger had somehow transferred itself to him.

His hunger for Elena was as powerful as the Ether itself. He’d had no way to ease it for weeks. The connection that he’d established to her through her dreams had been severed.

Only now had he discovered why.

Grigori was tall and lean. His muscles wrapped around his bones in corded perfection. The dark power that continually coursed through him burned away all but what was necessary.

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