Pure Rapture by Aja James

Author:Aja James [James, Aja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic, fantasy, romance, paranormal
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2018-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

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“He’s gone.”

Ishtar stood abruptly and stared at Inanna with incomprehension.

She’d been waiting in the adjoining room to the healing chamber for some time. Inanna had not come back or called her inside after her talk with Tal.

She’d worried her stomach sick about whether she should just barge in, and once upon a time she would have.

But now she was not so impulsive. She feared more. Her heart was fettered, her soul half shriveled. She thought a lot more, perhaps too much, before she acted.

Like how she would apologize now that he was awake to hear it, whether he’d want to see her or hear from her at all.

She had so many things she wanted to say to him, ask him, but she didn’t even know what they were. Her emotions and thoughts were all jumbled together, and she couldn’t separate the lies from truths.

She knew everything had to begin with an apology, but she felt like once she started she would never stop.

For, sometime during the past day or so, she realized she’d had no right to her anger and vengeance. No right to make demands of him. To punish him.

It wasn’t the War she hated him for winning. It wasn’t the death of the Queen the Rebellion had led to.

And when she thought it all out with a clear mind for the first time in many millennia, she also recognized that he’d never betrayed her.

After all, he’d never made her promises to betray.

No, the root of her hatred was that he hadn’t loved her back when she’d loved him desperately and obsessively.

How was it his fault for not returning her feelings? How could she fool herself into thinking she’d had any real claim to his heart?

She might have been waiting thirty minutes, maybe an hour—it felt like an eternity before Inanna finally emerged.

But she didn’t come through the inner door; she’d burst through the hallway entrance to the waiting room, Gabriel close on her heels.

Inanna let out a stream of curses and self-flagellation in the old language while Gabriel zeroed in on next steps.

“You couldn’t have known he’d do this,” her Mate cut through her panicked haze. “We need to focus now and decide what to do.”

Inanna took a deep breath and willed herself into some semblance of calm.

“The Shield’s video footage indicates that he left the base forty-five minutes ago on foot,” she said, shoving a hand through her thick blonde waves.

“The outer cameras didn’t pick up which direction he went—he must have known how to avoid them.”

Gabriel nodded once.

“He’d spent a good deal of time studying the Shield’s security with Cloud and Tristan even when he was still recovering in the healing chamber a week after we came here,” Gabriel said.

“At first I thought he just needed something for his mind to focus on while his body had time to heal, but I also sensed a nervous energy about him, as if he constantly worried that we’d be under attack.”

“I felt it too,” Inanna agreed.

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