Paradisus (Awakened Book 6) by Harley Austin

Author:Harley Austin [Austin, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

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T anner had found some clean clothes and dressed in a fresh pair of well-fitting jeans and a couple of layered shirts and hiking boots. Kira had found similar clothes and dressed casually as well. He walked out onto the wide wooden deck of a log home located somewhere that he didn’t have the foggiest idea where. A high-mountain stream burbled through the edge of a meadow clearing a few yards from the deck. In the distance, high snow-capped mountains loomed, sparsely dotted with evergreens.

Tanner and Kira were the only ones in the spacious log home at the moment.

“Have you figured out what we’re doing here yet?” Tanner asked, walking up to the deck railing.

“A little. I can feel something about this valley. And those mountains. I’m not sure what it is.”

“What’s it feel like?”

“Trouble.” She frowned.

“You’ve been a little cryptic since those U.N. agents dumped us off here in the middle of nowhere. I don’t suppose you want to tell me what’s going on?”

“Don’t you already know?” She asked.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Tanner, I’m not stupid. I know who you’re working for.”

“You do?”

Kira looked at him curiously. “Don’t you?”

“I’m a Ra living in Interra, Kira. It’s pretty obvious I work for the Sentinels,” he admitted.

She smiled politely. She could feel his feelings. He wasn’t making any attempt to hide them from her. She wasn’t sure if he even knew how to shield his feelings from her.

“How long have you been awakened?” she asked.

“A while.”

“A week?”

“No!” He glared. But seeing her face, he softened his attitude. “Last year,” he admitted.

“I’m a little surprised.”

“About?”

“Why the Sentinels assigned someone so new.”

“We’re a little shorthanded at the moment.”

“I’m sure.” She sighed, gazing out over the bubbling stream and the meadow beyond.

“Who do you work for?” he asked.

“You don’t know who I am do you?” Her eyes met his.

“Kira, honestly, the only thing I know is that I was supposed to drop by that coffee shop and see if you were the real deal—a goddess, a halfblood, or just someone pretending to be awakened. I didn’t know I’d find a Kir.”

“So you reported me to the Sentinels?”

“The Invictus Council knows, yea.” He nodded.

“I’m surprised they didn’t send you to arrest me.”

“You’re Kir, they’re not going to do that. They just told me to keep an eye on you. Even bring you back to Interra if I could. We would have been safe there.”

“You think this is my fault—”

“No,” he lied.

“Do too.”

“Well, maybe a little.”

“I didn’t know Amy was going to show up.”

“That bitch is bad news.”

“Tanner—” she frowned.

“Witch.” He corrected. “So why do you think they stuck us here?”

She shook her head. “I don’t know. But, this place, it feel really familiar to me some how.”

Tanner watched her looking out over the meadow. “You know, you’re really beautiful.” He smiled handsomely.

“Hmmm.” Kira’s gaze moved from the meadow to look now at Tanner. He was nicely built for someone so slender, and he definitely had swoon down well. She smiled back at him.

“Why do I feel like I want to kiss you?” he moved closer to her, bumping his shoulder into hers.

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