Light's Shadow (Copper Falls Book 3) by Colleen Vanderlinden

Author:Colleen Vanderlinden [Vanderlinden, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Peitho Press
Published: 2017-04-19T05:00:00+00:00

Sophie turned to Esme, power still coursing through her body.

“Feels good, doesn’t it?” Esme asked.

“Yeah. Too good,” she murmured, taking a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

“There is no such thing as too good. You need to get that idea out of your head. Stop fearing who you are. If you fear it, it controls you. Shadow is like that. But if you assert control, if it’s clear that you’re the one who’s in charge, it will fall into line and serve you as it should.” She glanced at Calder.

“Did that feel or look evil to you, teddy bear?” she asked.

Sophie studied Calder. His hands were in his lap, and he swallowed hard. The hungry look in his eyes had her body reacting immediately. Instinct.

“No. Nothing evil about that. Holy shit,” he added.

“I don’t get it,” Sophie said.

“I have the feeling he’ll explain it to you later. Lucky bitch,” Esme muttered.

Sophie shook her head, giving Calder another glance. She’d joked earlier about him carrying her off into the woods, but now he really looked like he might. She blushed and looked away.

“Okay. I did that —”

“And I want to see you do it a few more times, to make sure you got it.”

This statement earned an audible groan from Calder.

“Okay, but what the hell does this accomplish? What? I’m just going to keep throwing Marshall around and hope that eventually, I bash him hard enough against something that he dies?”

Esme shook her head. “I mean, you could do that, but it seems inefficient.”

“Obviously.”

“This is the first thing you need to learn. How to manipulate objects. You felt what that feels like now, to harness your power, to focus it.”

Sophie nodded.

“The next step will be actually fighting with it. You can stop a heart with little more than a gesture. Remove the air from lungs in an instant. Snap a neck with a flick of your wrist.”

“This is terrifying.”

“You are. Shadow is not a game. That is why those of us who harness it need to learn how to do it right. When you make a shield, the way you did at the funeral, you’re just manipulating your power, giving it form. And you’re good at that. It takes a lot of focus.”

“But that’s used to protect people. I didn’t feel… like this, when I did that.”

“If you felt like this when you made a shield, not a single fucking thing could get inside.”

Sophie nodded.

“Okay. This is the other side of that. You can shield. And you can destroy.”

“I don’t want to just destroy.”

Esme rolled her eyes. “So take up gardening.”

“Nothing will grow with Shadow. Look around you.”

“Are you stupid or something?” Esme asked, and Sophie glared at her. “Shadow can be whatever you want it to be.”

“No, it can’t. The plants around me wilt, the second I walk past. They do the same with you. My chickens stopped laying. My goats dried up. I can’t even make goddamn soap anymore—”

“You are such a whiny bitch,” Esme said with a laugh.

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