Midnight Breed 4 - Midnight Rising by Adrian Lara

Author:Adrian, Lara
Language: eng
Format: epub

Midnight Breed 4 - Midnight Rising

CHAPTER Eighteen

Rio killed the last couple of hours before dawn topside in the estate’s back courtyard with Dante, then headed below to the compound for some alone time in the chapel. The quiet little sanctuary where the Order carried out their most important and personal ceremonies had always been a haven for him. Not now. All he saw in the candlelit space were reminders of Eva’s deception.

Because of her, over a year ago they’d had to anoint and shroud one of the Order’s most noble members in funeral white and place him on the altar at the front of the rows of pews. Conlan’s death in a subway tunnel last summer had been unintentional—the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time—but his blood was on Eva’s hands.

Rio could still see her standing in the chapel at his side, clinging to him and weeping, yet all the while hiding her deceit. Waiting until the next chance she got to collude with the Order’s enemies as part of some misguided attempt to see Rio pulled from the Order—even by seeing him maimed—so he could finally belong to her alone.

The irony of it was, he never would have left the Order.

He didn’t want to now, and wouldn’t, if he felt the least bit useful to the warriors who’d been like kin to him for nearly a century. If he hadn’t been robbed of his sanity and his self-​control by the blast that might have—should have—killed him.

“Shit,” he muttered, pivoting around to get the hell out of the chapel.

He didn’t need to linger there any longer with his old ghosts or the misery they brought him. All it took to revive Eva in his mind was a glance in a mirror or a reflection in a window. He tried damn hard not to do that, not only because of the shock of seeing what stared back at him, but also because he wanted Eva severed from his life completely. Just hearing her name was enough to send him into a fit of uncontrollable rage.

As Dylan could unfortunately attest.

He wondered if she was okay. Tess would have taken excellent care of her, even if her healing touch was absent now that she was pregnant.

But still, Rio wondered. He hated himself for the way he’d reacted. Dylan was probably feeling likewise. If she wasn’t too busy pitying him for the mental train wreck he’d proven himself to be.

Feeling as alone and detached as a ghost himself, Rio wandered away from the compound’s chapel and down the labyrinth of corridors until he reached the empty infirmary. He took a quick shower in the medical recovery room that had been his home during the months following the explosion, letting the hot water wash away the aches in his muscles and the rising pound in his temples.

And as he cut the spray and toweled off, his thoughts returned to Dylan. It wasn’t doing her any good at all to be kept here against her will.

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