Shadow Guardian (Blood Shadows Book 1) by Jennie Lynn Roberts

Author:Jennie Lynn Roberts [Roberts, Jennie Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838338992
Published: 2022-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Ethan sat in his car and leaned his head back against the rest. God. When did Thursday night turn into the start of the weekend? It was a heaving, chaotic mess of a night with more than the usual number of difficult patients. It had started with a teenager who thought it was hilarious to spit and finished with an idiot who had tried to prove his manliness by smashing a beer bottle against a wall, only to learn that it’s always the broken glass that wins.

It didn’t help that Ethan hadn’t been sleeping well in the days since he’d seen Kay. One night with her in his bed, and he’d somehow lost the ability to sleep there by himself. On top of that, his world was now overrun with Shadows. They were everywhere he looked, swirling and pulsing, heavy with emotion. He’d tried turning them off, but he hated the hollow feeling, the knowledge that there was more just beyond his reach.

Using his Shadows in his treatments had been stunningly successful. Bleeding stopped and bruises faded. Patients improved rapidly. But not knowing what he was doing and figuring it out by trial and error, all while desperately trying to look like nothing unusual was going on, was exhausting.

He’d done his best to stay in touch with Kay, calling when he could and sending her texts and climber jokes. But it didn’t feel like enough, and if there was anyone in the world who knew the havoc that shift work and long, unpredictable hours could have on a relationship, it was him.

If they even were in a relationship.

Were they?

They’d had the hottest sex of his life. His newly awoken Shadows were utterly obsessed with her. He liked spending time with her, speaking to her, and hearing her opinions, but, if anything, all of that just terrified him more. Somehow, he’d gone from determined to stay alone to tumbling faster and faster down the rabbit hole.

When he was with her, it all made sense. She said their Shadows had chosen each other, and he believed her. But now, sitting in his car, too tired to get out and climb the stairs, too drained to face the emptiness of his home, he wondered what the hell he was doing.

He picked up his phone, looked at the screen—one o’clock in the morning, no messages—and put it back down.

He picked it up again, needing something, but not sure of what that was. He started to type a message. Hi Kay…. And then stopped. What was he going to say? That he was lonely. And confused. Sitting in the dark. God.

He started to delete it, but somehow bobbled the phone and pressed send as he tried to catch it. Damn it. Could he still delete it? But then it would show a message had been removed. What was worse?

The phone rang in his hand, and he nearly dropped it. God. Now he had no choice.

He pressed to answer and lifted it to his ear. “Hi, Kay.

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