Pas: An Urban Fantasy Novel (War of the Alphas Book 4) by SM Reine

Author:SM Reine [Reine, SM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Fantasy / Urban
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2015-07-26T23:00:00+00:00

XII

Deirdre wasn’t sure how long they rested there, the two of them gazing up at the stars of the Winter Court, warmed by nothing but her leaping flames.

Now that the orgiastic reverie was gone, she couldn’t believe what she was doing, where she was, whom she was with.

It was stranger than her wildest dreams and more frightening than most of her nightmares.

Stark.

She felt no affection for the man she rested against, but the deep, comfortable sense of satisfaction was impossible to deny. They had been moving inexorably toward this for weeks, and now she had crossed that line. If she’d been a feline shifter, like Colette had been, she would have been cleaning her whiskers with pride.

Gods, she really was as bad as Stark.

“I have a house in South Africa,” Stark said. “Well below the ethereal plains, near the tip of the continent. It will be good there.”

“Huh? South Africa?” For a moment, all Deirdre could summon to mind were her fantasies of living on warm savanna, roaming the wilderness with lions and elephants. “Why do you have a house there?”

“My family,” he said. “Part of my trust. We will kill the servants, of course. I won’t allow them to report back about us.” As though murdering servants to keep their affairs private was a normal thing to do.

Deirdre lifted her head to study Stark’s profile. He was resting his head on one arm. His skin had healed from the scorching, though it was dusted with the ash of the earlier damage and his beard was still blackened at the tips. “Why would we go there?”

“To raise my daughters outside the OPA’s reach. It’ll be good there. Amphicyonidae and phoenix. Forget this Brotherhood, the unseelie, politics. Forget it all.”

She pushed herself onto her knees, hair swinging over her shoulder. “I can’t do that.”

“Why not?” he asked.

“Because…I can’t. We have to go back to America, Stark. We have to fix this election and depose Rhiannon. That’s the whole point of this. Did you miss the part where I told you that?”

His eyes darkened. “She’s meaningless, Tombs. You were right when you said that you’re nothing like her. We’ll leave. Move on. Start new lives somewhere else.”

“But what will everyone else do when we’re gone?” she asked. “You said that you believed in helping gaeans live their natural lives. You want shifters to be free of the system. You want us to roam the wilderness and hunt like we’ve always been meant to do.”

“I wanted to punish Rylie Gresham for Genesis and avenge my wife,” Stark said. “Now, I don’t care. We’ll be Alpha mates beyond her reach.”

He sounded less patient by the word. As though he couldn’t believe that they were still discussing this.

Deirdre clenched her teeth, stood up, grabbed her clothes. They were shredded in multiple places. It was hard to weave her limbs through the proper holes when there were so many tears in the material. “Alpha mates of what? There aren’t gaeans in South Africa. There’s nothing but angels on those longitudes, from up in Copenhagen all the way down to damn Jo’burg.

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