Lynx Destiny by Durgin Doranna

Author:Durgin, Doranna [Durgin, Doranna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780373885893
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-02-04T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Kai stayed awake into the night with his body more alive than it had ever been, the land whispering contentment across his skin...absorbing the memories of what had happened here.

And at the same time finding himself far too aware that Regan had arrived coated with the taint of the Core, and that what she’d described—her fear, her horror, the changing voices—had not come from the land.

Not directly.

He didn’t fully understand what had happened to Regan’s mother, only that it had not gone badly until civilization had interfered, damaging what lay between the woman and the land. He knew it to have been unnecessary...to have been tragedy.

He held the living scars of that tragedy in his arms, warm and sated and—for the moment—trusting. And between the land and this woman, he had never felt the imperative more strongly—the need to protect them both.

To stop the Core.

If only he knew the first thing about them. He needed more than just his innate ability to sense them; more than what Aeron Faulkes had been able to imply in his letter. More than what he could learn in his patrols and in a few short encounters.

But this Core presence wasn’t about wiping a few amulets clean; it wasn’t about lingering to reclaim a gun with special properties, one they couldn’t afford to have fall into either Sentinel or mundane hands.

No, they’d turned invasive and they’d launched harsh workings. And they had a distinct interest in Frank Adler’s land.

He’d have to get help.

Going to the Sentinels meant painting a target on himself for both Core and Sentinel interests. It meant the end of his way of life, even if he somehow managed to evade both factions in the end—for it meant the rest of his life would be spent doing just that. Not here, with the home he’d always known and the land he’d always protected, but higher, deeper...further away from the world.

Do what you have to, his father had written him.

And Kai would.

* * *

Regan opened her eyes at dawn to discover Kai already awake, and to discover her body rueful both from such vigorous lovemaking and from a night on the ground.

He had no such problem from what she could tell. As she sat, he stretched hugely beneath the luxury of the blankets, his nakedness a reminder of his haste to meet her the night before, when she’d radiated such distress.

And the evidence of his ability to hear her, and of her own to reach out through the voices she didn’t even want to acknowledge in the first place.

She looked sharply at Kai, but he seemed totally caught up in waking—yawning to stretch again, revealing the play of muscle to the early light, the shift of stretch and beauty. His eyes were sleepy within the faint lining smudges of color, their blue dark and clear beneath strong brows, hair black in the diffuse light and mussed to a high degree.

Her fingers had a pretty good idea how it had gotten that way.

But

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