Possession by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney [Mooney, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press LLC
Published: 2011-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

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Kiel sat in the backseat with J leaning heavily against him. She was asleep, or almost asleep. The past couple of days had been rough on her. She was wiped out and needed rest. Solid rest, not that pseudo chemically induced rest she’d been forced into accepting at the hospital. There was no way she could get any decent soul-cleansing relaxation when people were coming in and out of that room every two to three hours to take vitals or deliver meds, or whatever nonsense they deemed important.

And there was something else she needed. Something more critical than rest.

I need to get out of her life. The thought went through his mind for the twentieth time. Or maybe it was the hundredth time. He had known it from the moment he had seen her lying on the sidewalk like a broken doll after she had screamed and fainted. J wasn’t pursuing this case like they were. No, her reason was coming from a totally different direction. He and Sam may be wading in hip-deep because it was their job, but this woman was putting herself at needless risk because she wanted to be with him and to prove herself to him. Why she felt she had to do such a thing, he couldn’t begin to guess. But the truth, when he finally accepted it, had just about done him in.

She shifted slightly, moving her head against his shoulder until she found a comfortable spot. Her left hand slid down his jacket sleeve until she reached his hand. Gently he clasped her fingers.

That river of warmth he had felt the first time she’d touched him was now a lake. No, an ocean. Fuck it. Every damn one of the seven seas! Her life force fed his emptiness, reminding him of the impossibility of their relationship.

She doesn’t need this. She didn’t need to get any more involved in a relationship with him, not when it could end at the next full moon or whatever.

Kiel barely managed to stifle a groan.

J had said the killer had a black aura. He finally knew what she meant. He thought he had been ready to face the attacker, ready to protect them as they fled the apartment building. He didn’t know what he would do, only that he knew deep in his gut he was the only person who could face up to it and possibly survive.

It had approached like an oncoming car moving at a hundred miles an hour. Its blackness was a living energy so thick it ate up everything in its path. Ate, swallowed, then regurgitated hatred in bile-filled chunks. And he’d stood there, ready to deflect it if that was the only choice left to him, to keep it from going after the only two people who meant anything to him.

There was a wind of sorts that preceded it. A wind that blew danger, warning at the beginning with little breezes and steadily getting stronger until it was of hurricane proportions, and the signals were clanging and screeching with ear-splitting intensity.

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