Reaper's Vow by Sarah McCarty

Author:Sarah McCarty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

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“I don’t know what the hell you want me to do with him,” Isaiah said. “A human can’t survive these wounds.”

They were just standing there. Clark, Blade, Isaiah, Addy. Miranda stared at Cole’s unconscious body. Why weren’t they doing something?

“Do something anyway,” Addy snapped.

“You will save him,” Miranda ordered, pushing anything but conviction away.

“He’s burned badly,” Blade said, his black eyes as flat as his expression as he relayed that information. “Probably his lungs, too.”

Miranda didn’t want to hear that. “He went into that burning building to save my daughter. You won’t let him die,” Miranda commanded.

“He’s human. Put him out of his misery,” Clark interjected.

“Isaiah?” Miranda said, moving to the bed, closer to her sword, placing herself between Cole and them.

“What, Miranda?”

“Kill him.”

Addy gasped. “You bitch.”

Isaiah grabbed Addy’s arm and held her back. Blade just smiled.

“You might want to clarify who you want dead.”

Miranda didn’t hesitate. “Clark.”

She wanted Clark dead. He’d left her daughter to die as if she were nothing. She wanted him more than dead. She wanted him to suffer.

Clark swore.

“Oh.” With a wave of her hand, Addy dismissed Clark. “Him you can kill.”

“That might be premature,” Isaiah countered.

Miranda looked at him. “You promised me once that anything I needed you’d give me.”

“I did.”

Addy glared at Clark. “Reapers keep their promises, husband.”

“They do.”

“I want him dead.”

“Go to hell,” Clark snapped at her.

Miranda wanted to slash her talons across his mouth. “You will no longer talk to me that way.”

“I’ll talk to my intended any way I want.”

“You’re a coward, a thief, and I suspect impotent.” She all but spat those words, disgust pouring out of her until it felt like it filled the room. “I’ll never marry you.”

“That’s where you’re wrong.”

“You left a child to die. My child.”

“Shut up.”

She lifted her chin. “Make me.”

Clark waved his hand to include the others. “Do you think they’ll save you? They’re bound by mating law. I could beat you right here, and they’ll let me.”

“Is that true?”

Blade smiled a cold smile. “He could take a swing.”

Isaiah went still. “He is that stupid.”

Clark took a step back. “They won’t always be there.”

Miranda closed her eyes against that truth. Clark was right. Isaiah and Blade wouldn’t always be there.

The whisper came strong but silent into her mind. A voice yet not a voice. A thought yet not a thought. Strong, masculine, and foreign.

Make your choice, girl.

Blade was in her head. She looked at him. He stared calmly back at her. A choice. She had a choice. Placing her hand on Cole’s shoulder, over the place where she’d left her mark in the wake of that incredible kiss, she finally understood. Even through the material of his scorched shirt, the contact made her palm tingle. Reaper or human. She had a choice.

Do it.

“I accept this man as my mate.”

Clark snarled. “The hell you say!”

She faced him squarely. “I reject your suit, your interest.” It felt so damn good to say this. “I reject you.”

“He’ll never have you,” Clark snarled, stepping in.

From Cole came a wild surge of energy in a room gone strangely cold.

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