New Moon by Lisa Kessler

Author:Lisa Kessler [Kessler, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Select Otherworld, paranormal romance, Paranormal, PNR, werewolf, werewolves, shifter, Shifters, Lisa Kessler, moon, Series, assassin, Italian, bounty hunter, PI, forbidden love, tortured hero, fated mate, jaguar, jaguar shifter
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-06-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sebastian

I listened to her heart beating while I tried to comprehend what had just happened. I’d had many lovers. There’d been sex in showers, cars, and against walls, but never in my life had I experienced anything remotely like this.

Real. Honest. And, for the first time, complete surrender.

I finally lifted my head and stared at her beautiful face. No trace of makeup, with perspiration on her forehead, and she took my breath away.

She looked up at me, her gaze wandering over my face. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

“Shakespeare.” I smiled as I ran my thumb along her cheek. “The Tempest, no?”

Her eyes sparkled. “Before my father disappeared, I thought I was going to be an actress on Broadway.”

“How did I not know this about you?”

Her laughter warmed me as she shrugged. “Not something I talk about. I went to community college for a couple semesters, but after my younger sister ran away, I left my dreams behind and focused on my work.”

Slowly I slid free of her body and lay down beside her as I drew her into my arms. She rested her head on my chest, her silky hair teasing my skin. I kissed her temple and whispered, “I want to know all your secrets.”

She peered up at me from under her lashes and shook her head. “I guess we’ll have to live, then.”

“But in case we don’t…” I lost myself in her eyes. “I need you to know, you’re my light in all this darkness. I don’t want this to end.”

She traced her finger along my lips. “Then don’t die for me tomorrow. Live.”

…

I woke with a start, but the panic faded when I found Isabelle, naked in my arms. I watched her sleep, memorizing the lines of her face. My body was already responding to having her so near, but there wasn’t time to surrender to temptation.

Today might be my last chance for a shower. If the plan went smoothly and Isabelle and the others escaped the walls of the compound…I would have Isabelle to thank for my salvation before leaving this world.

Poetic, but it didn’t give me the peace I was hoping for.

Sex with Isabelle hadn’t had the affect I was expecting. I’d thought it would help me find closure, maybe a readiness for my father’s retribution. At least a happy memory as I endured torture until my body could take no more.

But the opposite had happened. I’d never experienced a connection on every level like I had in her arms. She healed parts of me I hadn’t realized were lost.

And I wanted more.

Instead of being content to sacrifice myself, I found a burning desire to live. Too late now. The only way they would be able to escape with Madeleine was if I stayed behind. There was no other way.

I would die to protect her. But that didn’t mean I didn’t wish there was another option.

Quietly I got out of bed. She moaned but didn’t wake up. In the shower, the hot water helped me clear my head and regain my familiar mind-set.

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