Seeing with the Heart by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Wow, it’s pretty dark in here,” Molly remarked, then she laughed delightedly. “Listen to me—complaining about the darkness when darkness is all I’ve seen for the past twenty years!”

“How much can you see?” Braxx asked, stepping into the dark hut behind her. It was furnished only with a few grass mats for sleeping or sitting on and a clay jug filled with drinking water. The Tal’ossi weren’t much for material possessions.

Molly frowned, the tear-shaped diamond between her eyes glowing like a dim star in the darkness. “In here? Not a whole lot. But probably more than most people could.”

“Oh? What do you mean?”

“Well, this new sight from the crystal the Wise One gave me seems to work as a kind of heat vision,” Molly explained. “So anything emitting any heat sort of glows. And I guess the hotter it is, the more it glows. I noticed that the plants are very dim but people are bright.” She turned to Braxx. “What about you? Can you see anything in here?”

“I can see quite easily in the dark,” Braxx informed her. “Kindred have excellent night vision.”

“Lucky you. I’m just glad to have any vision at all. God…” She hugged herself, her arms crossed tightly over her full breasts. “I keep thinking I’ll wake up and this will be a dream. I have that dream so often you know—that I can see again. I think because I lost my sight when I was almost an adult and the habit of seeing was so ingrained.”

“It’s no dream,” Braxx assured her. He cleared his throat. “And neither was what happened between us during the feast.”

“Oh, um…” Even in the dim hut he could see her cheeks growing pink. “I…I thought we said that was necessary.”

“It was.” Braxx gave a growling sigh of frustration. “Forget I said it. I don’t know why I brought it up.”

He did know, though. It was because he was aching to finish what he’d started—almost desperate to claim her completely and make her his own. But he couldn’t do that. Couldn’t take what she wasn’t willing to give.

“I know why you brought it up,” Molly said, surprising him. “It’s because we have this…this attraction between us.”

“The attraction we agreed we wouldn’t act on,” Braxx said in a low voice. “Right.”

“And then we went and acted on it—acted on it to the extreme. Listen, Braxx, I want you to know I don’t…don’t have a lot of casual sex. In fact, I never do.”

“I do not have casual encounters either,” Braxx informed her. “What happened between us at the feast, while necessary, was not casual for me.”

“For me either,” Molly whispered. “But Braxx, we can’t…I mean, not while I’m doing a field study. I just—”

“I understand,” he cut her off hastily. “We will…forget it ever happened.

“I don’t think I could forget even if I wanted to—which I don’t.” Molly winced. “You’re really, uh, big—you know that?”

“Are you hurt?” Braxx asked anxiously. “Did our encounter wound you?”

“No, it just, uh, left me a little sore.

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