Night of the Hawk by Vonna Harper

Author:Vonna Harper [Harper, Vonna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2009-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

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A few minutes ago Mato had either been asleep or nearly so, his long, hard body motionless beside Smokey on the bed, but now he was standing at the window with his naked back to her. Although he’d freed her from the bedpost, he hadn’t untied her hands, prompting her not to make the mistake of trying to convince herself that their relationship had changed.

The tension now running through him was in such marked contrast to the essence of a man at rest following sex that it distracted her from her own climax-created lethargy. Telling herself she wasn’t afraid of him, she nevertheless was careful not to do anything that might draw his attention to her.

He was a man on the edge, but on the edge of what? The muscles on his arms and legs seemed to be growing tauter by the moment, forcing her to contemplate what she could do or say if whatever was building inside him exploded.

The hawk. He was either looking for or communicating with the damnable hawk! Hating the bird as she’d never hated anything, she forced herself to concentrate on her breathing. Wanting to wreak havoc on a bird made no sense, but she now understood that the predator was far from simply being one of nature’s creatures. She’d entered a world and an experience she’d never known existed and now had to accept it for what it was: her new reality.

So this man who’d both fulfilled and imprisoned her was in tune with a bird, was he? What might happen next—what might whatever the hawk was want of Mato?

Shaken by the question, she let go of the lingering aftermath of sex and faced reality. Mato wasn’t in tune with his spirit after all. Instead the predator controlled him in some unfathomable way. It had commanded the man to capture her, and he had. Bottom line.

If the spirit wanted her dead, Mato would obey.

“Is it out there?” she asked.

“Yes.”

Having anticipated that he’d sidestep the question, it took her a beat to absorb what he’d just said. “What does it want?”

“Me.”

Tears burned, though she’d already known what he was going to say. For a moment she felt sorry for Mato, but if he’d wanted nothing to do with the mysterious thing, he could have left the area, couldn’t he? True, his roots were here, but if her survival depended on fleeing, she’d do so in a heartbeat.

Her survival?

Shoulders squaring, Mato spun and faced her. He was magnificent in his nudity, and intimidating. How could she just have had sex with someone so dark and hidden? And yet wasn’t his savage night quality part of his appeal?

A flicker of movement outside the window distracted her, and though she knew what she’d see, the outstretched wings of the hovering creature dried her throat. The hawk was so close she half believed it was about to crash through the glass. Needing reassurance, she turned her attention back to Mato.

For a length of time so short it might have only been illusion, she was looking at not a human being but a bird of prey.

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