Savage Secrets by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Seneca

A couple of days back from Valesk and Owen was driving me crazy all over again.

Any time I left the cottage, he was right there with me. Even if he said he was going to do something else once we got to town, I’d catch him a few steps behind me, as if he expected Draven to appear out of nowhere.

I asked him once to leave it alone and that I was fine, but all he did was grunt and ask if I was going to stop going after Draven.

I hadn’t bothered answering, and he continued to be my overbearing shadow. Having nightmares every night wasn’t helping my case at all. I woke up screaming each time. Owen was there to pull me back from that dark ledge, but when he asked about them, I shrugged it off and said I was fine.

The nightmares shifted from being about what Rudarius did to me to seeing Macron in trouble. I’d seen him two more times, warning me to stay away. Whether he saw me or not, I had no way of knowing, but my gut told me he was there, and he was alive. Owen refused to hear any of it, and continued to brush off my concerns. That pissed me off more than his following me around all the time.

A week after we got back from Valesk, I stopped talking to him. The conversation about my needing time and his waiting came back to bite me in the ass. I should have ended it that night, but once again I was too much of a coward to follow through.

“How long are you going to give me the silent treatment?” Owen asked as he joined me one night in the garden.

I shrugged, not bothering to look up from my weeding.

“You’re acting like a child.”

“Me?” I snapped, throwing weeds over my shoulder, attempting to hit him in the face. “You’re the one stalking me. I need space to do my job, and you are not letting me do it.”

“I want you to stop searching for Draven.”

“Ha, right. I’ll be sure to do that.”

“Why do you want to find the vampire trying to kill you?”

“Once.” I got to my feet and poked Owen hard in the chest. “He tried to kill me one time. Just once. If he really wanted me dead, he would’ve been back by now, or sent more of his goons to eff up my life. But he hasn’t, so back off. I don’t need you to protect me.”

“Is it so hard to understand I care for you?”

“That’s not why you’re doing this.”

“No? Then why?”

I marched through the garden, the orbs changing from calming blues and violets to angry oranges and reds as they channeled by emotions. “You think if you push hard enough, you’ll finally break through whatever wall you think I have up. That you’ll convince me I don’t have to do this job any longer. I like my job, Owen, I like it, and I’m not about to quit.

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