Sentinels: Jaguar Night by Doranna Durgin

Author:Doranna Durgin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781408916902
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Before they tackled the wounded wards, Meghan hesitated by the barn to speak with her friends. An awkward moment, and one that clearly made her miserable. They weren’t ready, yet, to let go of their hurt and confusion.

“Give them time,” Dolan told her, as hypocritical as he could possibly be…If anyone knew that time didn’t always heal, he did. But he kept such feelings away from her, pressed his hand to the small of her back in a consoling gesture and took them out to walk the ward lines.

She turned out to be her mother’s daughter, oh, hell, yes. Once he took her to ward view again, her sure touch made quick work of things. She had little finesse—how could she?—but it was there. It was waiting. And meanwhile he showed her how to smooth the damaged spots, and how to weave the wards anew as they walked the ranch in two different worlds.

“It’s much easier this way,” she admitted to him once, although she still struggled with knowing when to reach for outside power—still had a tendency to use herself up. “Looking at it all from here.”

He couldn’t hide his surprise. “No one does this work outside of ward view.”

Her expression closed, both inwardly and outwardly. “Only those of us who were deemed too insignificant to teach.”

“Their mistake.” But—

She dropped out of ward view to put her hands on her hips and stare at him in demand. “This is all hard enough without knowing you’re not saying things.”

Yeah. So much for his ability to keep things from her. “They might try to rectify that situation.”

Her laugh was bitter. “Screw them. I have a life, and I made it without their help. They aren’t getting a piece of me.”

“Later. Don’t let it distract you.”

She gave him an annoyed glance, but returned to the matter at hand—the worst of the damage from the night before, where a gaping, wounded hole tore through all the layers of the old wards Margery Lawrence had once laid around this ranch. From the outside, it was invisible—just another spot along the hillside, very near to the trail where Luka had not so long ago brought Dolan home. On the inside…

Meghan eyed it with trepidation. “I don’t think I can…Look, I know I have to learn this stuff, but maybe you should start this one. Let me follow your lead.”

He wanted to urge her to try…but he saw, then, that she was tired. And he brought to mind her headlong rush into the darkness to reach him at the old homestead, and her willingness to find him again in the woods below the house, and her courage in the face of Luka’s wild ire.

This was not a woman who backed lightly away from challenges.

So he stepped in. He drew from the earth and he started the tracing, easily visualizing the pattern in his mind, the perfect tangle of symmetrical lines, the particular reflection of the earth’s needs in this particular spot—

And suddenly he was on

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