Possessed by Desire by Naughton Elisabeth

Author:Naughton, Elisabeth [Naughton, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Elisabeth Naughton
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Claire rolled to her side, dragging the blankets with her. The muscles in her eyes tightened as she waited, a sense of anticipation alive inside her. For what…she didn’t know.

Slowly, the fog cleared, and she chanced a look down. Her stomach rolled, and her head grew light. She shuffled back, but pebbles and dirt skittered off the edge of the precipice she stood on, skipped over and cracked against the wall of rock forming a sharp drop. Below, the red glow of flames rising up from a river of lava met her view. Yet above, a bright light overwhelming the darkness, blinding in its intensity.

She blocked the glare from above with her hand, turned to look over the edge at the winding river of red below. From somewhere deep inside, an overwhelming urge to step off the ledge consumed her. Happiness was down there. Sadness too. Emotions of all different kinds. Uncertainty. But intermixed…a future.

The pull was quickly blanketed by the need to look skyward, to the light above. And she did. To knowledge. To answers. To enlightenment.

Indecision raced through her. She didn’t know where she was supposed to go. What she was supposed to do. Her heart pounded hard, but before she could choose, the fog rolled in once more, blocking both darkness and light.

Claire jerked awake with a gasp and sat straight up. Moonlight filtered through the window, casting an eerie white light across the dark room, but she didn’t need to look to know she wasn’t alone. She could feel the presence of another. Could feel him.

Her gaze darted to the side and landed on Ashur, sitting in the chair beside her bed, a look of confusion across his rugged face.

“Ashur, you scared me.” While her heart raced, she tried to slow her breathing. The dream, vision, whatever it had been, felt too real. She chanced a look at the bedside clock and realized she’d only been asleep about an hour.

Just a dream. Darkness and light. Doesn’t mean anything.

“What are the specific reasons?”

Her gaze jerked back to his face. “What?”

He studied her carefully. Too carefully. Had he seen what she’d been dreaming? Had he influenced it somehow? “Outside you said you had very specific reasons for summoning me. I think it’s time you tell me what those reasons are.”

Claire brushed her hair back from her face and scooted up in the pillows, shaking off the last dregs of sleep. Right. Her reasons. She’d been stupid to think she’d skate free of that conversation so easily.

“Well?” he prodded.

Shit, she had to tell him the rest. She’d already vowed to help him. And even though he’d made that comment out in the woods about still wanting her, from his intense expression now she had a sinking suspicion seduction wasn’t going to work anymore. If she wanted his help in return, she had to be honest.

She drew a deep breath. “The celestial order is complicated. Years ago, before I was even born, the High Seven trapped the angels’ emotions in the firebrand opals.

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