Over the Moon (Gemini Book 6) by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“No,” Abram said with misplaced cheer as he restocked an emergency med kit. “Not gonna happen.”

I tried again. “Abram—”

“Can you hand me that roll of gauze?” He didn’t look up from his work. “I’ve got thirteen more of these first-aid stations to stock before I can get back to the work that matters.”

“I could help,” I offered, eager to worm my way inside his defenses. “Tell me where the other kits are, and I’ll get them topped off so you don’t have to fool with them.”

“You’re not leaving this building until you can do it on your own two legs,” he huffed. “If you think I’m going to permit you to go rolling through a war zone just to save me a few steps, you’re out of your mind.”

Frustration at landing myself right back on light duty bubbled over, and the thin leash on my temper snapped. “Why does it matter so much to you?”

“Do you hear yourself?” he demanded. “That’s why it matters. You don’t value yourself, so some-damn-body’s got to do it for you.”

“There’s more to it than that,” I pressed, desperate to learn why my misadventures cut him so deeply. “Help me understand.”

Abram blasted out a sigh that usually would have signaled retreat, but he only went to the door of the clinic and nudged it closed with the toe of his boot. “Cord put you up to this, didn’t he?”

“He might have implied there was more to the story, yes.”

The healer sat on a box of antiseptic and toyed with the fraying edge of a tape strip. “I had a daughter a long time ago.”

An ice block formed in my chest, encasing my heart, and I wished he hadn’t shut that door, that I had somewhere to run, because this wasn’t going to end well. “Had?”

“Her mother was my soul mate,” he rasped. “She was this long-legged, redheaded goddess of a woman, but she was broken when we met, and me being a doctor didn’t make a damn bit of difference. I couldn’t fix her.”

“I didn’t know you had a mate.” I should have, though. A conversation we’d had months ago tripped through my mind, and it all should have been so much clearer.

“I think all of us have a perfect other half, I just believe that because of our heightened senses or perhaps our animalistic natures, we recognize them faster.”

“And when they don’t recognize us?” I asked, a sharp edge to my voice. “What then?”

His expression grew distant. “Then we give them time and space and pray that one day they might feel the same pull as we do.”

“You’re saying you don’t think it goes away.”

“For wargs?” He shook his head. “No. I don’t think it does.”

He’d all but told me his story, and I’d been too lost in heartache to hear what he was trying to confide.

“We weren’t mates, not in any way she recognized. She was a latent warg, and that was the root of her depression. Her pack was more accepting of the children who were born unable to shift, so she was raised by her parents.

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