Rivers and Roads by E.M. Lindsey

Author:E.M. Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.M. Lindsey

I woke with the dawn, covered in the scent of the Omega in my arms. It took several moments of listening to our hearts in sync and the rise and fall of his chest for me to come awake. I couldn’t remember the last time I had slept without torment—from the hands of the humans and the nightmares that followed me out of the compound.

The peace I felt with Orion pressed against me wouldn’t last, but for the moment, it allowed me some semblance of my old self again. I still ached, my body more ravaged than it had ever been in battle, and I couldn’t imagine a world in which I wasn’t surrounded by pain. The prolonged half-shift had shredded my tendons and muscles, and the thought of shifting terrified me because I wasn’t sure I could reach my wolf.

At least, not yet.

But I was whole again or close to it. I could take in a deep breath and stretch my limbs and not feel the pull of chains. We were trapped in this house, in the middle of nowhere, but it wasn’t forever. I hadn’t been able to understand much of what Orion had said when he first rescued me, but somehow, I knew others were on the way.

This wasn’t an ending though, I knew that. It was only the beginning.

Carefully extracting myself from the Wolf beneath me, I eased off the sofa, then glanced down at him. His face was drawn, his brows furrowed, and I had the urge to reach out and stroke his cheek until he looked at me. Now, being able to think, I wanted to see the orange for myself.

I could recall my confusion when he first arrived. His scent was home and safety, but it was also wrong. It was twisted and distorted from the Wolf I had once known, and it had set me on edge until he touched me.

He had taken Danyal’s serum in order to find me. It had been meant for deeper espionage, and I wondered how much of my rescue destroyed our efforts to get what we needed from DC.

Shaking myself out of those thoughts, I padded across the room, attempting to keep quiet. Orion’s exhaustion was tangible, even from several feet away. I had no idea how long he’d been awake, how long he’d been fighting the surge of hormones and heat, but I knew it was draining him.

I needed to figure out my own first steps back into cognizance before Kor arrived, because I was in no condition to fight now, but I would be. I wanted to sink my claws into the human who had attempted to turn me into a mindless beast, and I wanted to feel it with my own hands as his heart stopped.

Pushing back the rage inside me, I wandered into the back bedroom and found a small pile of clothing. There was a set of sweatpants and a t-shirt, so I slung that over my shoulder, then hunted for the little phone I knew Orion had to have.

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