Primal Temptation by Sydney Somers

Author:Sydney Somers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: love_sf
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-10-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lucan saw the blood the moment he opened his eyes and turned his head. A trail of crimson trickled from the corner of Briana’s mouth. She lay motionless on the ground next to him.

What the hell happened? Panic tried sinking greasy claws into his stomach but he knew allowing that wouldn’t help her.

The back of his head pulsed in pressure-filled thumps that beat in sync with his still racing heart. He recognized the treasure room they’d discovered in the tunnels beneath Tintagel castle, but more torches blazed on the wall than he remembered. The ground felt cool beneath him, his skin still so hot his whole body felt flushed.

They hadn’t been here moments ago. They’d been somewhere else, somewhere… Details bled together in his mind—the taste of Briana’s lips, the smell of wildflowers on her skin, the tightening of her arms around him.

And then he’d made her do the last thing he wanted—leave.

“Briana?”

Willing her to open her eyes, Lucan sat up. Nausea jackknifed through his midsection, nearly doubling him over.

Son of a bitch.

He sucked in a sharp breath, then another.

“Briana.” He reached for her hand, cursing at the glacial chill that snapped through him as his fingers wrapped around hers.

“Finally.”

It would have taken a hell of a lot more than nausea to stop him from rolling to his feet at the sound of the voice.

He planted himself between Briana and Nessa, his sword drawn. His vision swam at the edges and he could swear the ground felt ready to slide out from beneath him, but he remained on his feet. The left side of his jaw throbbed, but the twisting inside his chest felt worse.

Briana still hadn’t moved.

She’d been fine moments ago. Laughing and smiling and teasing him. And then she’d kissed him. Melted into him, her body fitting perfectly against his, like she’d been made for him.

She should be there now, not lying there so still she could have been…

The wraith grappled for control, fighting toward full consciousness, prepared to lunge for the huntress. Someone needed to suffer for what happened to Briana.

Nessa held up both hands. “I’m not going to hurt her.”

A ripped shirt and scorch marks that revealed bubbled pink flesh on the huntress’s thigh told him that she’d definitely been trying to hurt someone. Maybe it hadn’t been Briana this time, but he wasn’t inclined to trust her.

“How long?” He wanted to kneel next to Briana and do more than be sure she was still breathing, but didn’t take his eyes off Nessa.

“You two were frozen in some kind of weird tableau. I don’t long how long you were like that. I was starting to think you were going to be permanent candidates for a wax museum. What happened?”

He shook his head, not altogether sure of that himself. He remembered hearing someone coming down the tunnel and grabbing Briana’s hand and then they’d been somewhere else.

They’d been home.

“I tried snapping her out of it,” Nessa continued, keeping a safe distance between them, “but nothing worked.”

He glanced at Briana’s swollen mouth.

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