Shades of Dark by Linnea Sinclair

Author:Linnea Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Interplanetary Voyages, General, Romance, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780553589658
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2008-07-28T17:00:00+00:00

“Ren never told you any of this?”

“Ren told me a lot, but he was cast out of his clan as a child, and the church orphanage on Calfedar is not going to teach a blind Stolorth about Ragkirils. You know this.”

“I just assumed since he knew so much of his people’s history—you do know Del’s some kind of deposed prince, don’t you?”

Sully chuckled softly. “Yeah.”

“Anyway, I just thought Ren knew a lot more about Ragkirils. He did explain the basics to me when I met you.”

“Ren knows what he’s studied since leaving Calfedar. Del’s lived it. Still lives it.” Sully shook his head, his expression suddenly serious. “I don’t know if I can completely describe what it’s like to finally meet someone who is like me, after all this time. It’s a little frightening but, God, it’s also such a relief.” He glanced almost shyly at me. “I don’t feel like such a freak.”

Ah, Sully. My heart constricted at his pained admission. I put my coffee on the nightstand and, framing his face with my hands, kissed him gently.

He licked his lips. “That is damned good coffee.”

“And?” I prompted.

He grinned. “Damned good kisses too. Now, open that beautiful mouth of yours again and finish your breakfast. We have work to do before we hit Dock Five. Del and I have some plans.”

Del and Sully. I was glad that someone could finally help Sully be at peace with the beast within, as I knew he thought of himself. He needed training to understand what he was, use what he was. Del could do that for him. And they were, not surprisingly, similar in age, outlook, and temperament. Del was the deposed prince. Sully was the deposed heir. I could see them as friends.

But it was the things I couldn’t see but only feel on the edges of my mind that worried me. Things that I sensed when I first met Del. Captain Regarth. His Royal Highness, Prince Regarth Cordell, Serian-Prime, Blessed of Delkavra.

He was trouble.

Sully left the cabin for the bridge, where Del was sitting in as first pilot. I went down to the galley for another cup of that chocolate coffee and to thank Dorsie for making the fruit compote. She knew it was Sully’s and my favorite breakfast.

We had a little under an hour yet to the exit gate.

“My God, he’s gorgeous! I’ve never seen eyes that deep color of blue. And an honest-to-shit prince!” Dorsie was rearranging perishables in one of the two large refrigerators in the Karn’s galley. Good thing for her to be doing. We were discussing Del and she was overheating rapidly. “And do you know he gives the most heavenly back massages?”

No, I didn’t. I didn’t want to know. But he was Kyi, motivated by pleasure—which meant, to a great extent, giving other people pleasure so he could experience it too. Dorsie had learned to enjoy Ren’s warm rainbows. I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what Del had done to her.

I could guess. Sully did it to me.

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