Shadow Lover by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The next day, Serena canceled her class at the college, skipped a book club meeting and sat around her house, waiting.

And waiting.

A day turned into a week and then a month. Anticipation collapsed into anger and then blossomed into suspicion. Had she just imagined Griffin? Was he her shadow lover returning in her adult years as a full-blown delusion?

She tried meditating, something she hadn’t done in years. She even tried conjuring him from her subconscious, but nothing happened.

Slowly, she gave up waiting for his return and moved on with her life.

She didn’t lecture on the mythical beasts that humans created to deny death. Instead, she turned her focus to pubescent fantasies and how family relationships shape sexual desires. Old hat, but at least something she believed in.

Three months after her wild night, she was standing barefoot in her kitchen nuking leftovers when someone knocked. Assuming Jeri had come to say she’d returned a day early so Serena could quit feeding her cat, she carried a half-filled wine glass with her, took a drink as she opened the door—then inhaled it into her lungs.

Griffin stood on the porch watching with concern as she choked and coughed. Serena turned to place her glass on the coffee table as she struggled to breathe.

“Do you require medical assistance?”

She shook her head and pounded on her chest with her fist.

“Are you certain?”

She nodded and finally managed to fill her saturated lungs with air.

After taking several deep breaths, she regained control of everything except, possibly, reason.

“What are you doing here?”

“I thought we’d already established that.”

“You mean the memory thing? That was three months ago.”

“Was it?”

Actually, it had been three months and two days, but she decided not to point that out.

She frowned at her guest, trying to determine how she felt about his return.

He looked as fantastic as he had before, or maybe even better. He wore jeans, which seemed anachronistic on him but fit perfectly, and a dark blue shirt that showed off his features and made his blue eyes appear even lighter.

She remembered the way he’d looked at her that night as he knelt over her, and a shiver shot through her.

He watched and waited.

She cleared the last of the wine from her windpipe, picked up her glass and returned to the kitchen for a refill. “Wine?”

“No, thank you.”

Since he didn’t follow, she had a moment alone to gather her wits.

She hadn’t imagined him; he was real. Or, at least, he seemed real at the moment.

And the memory of the pleasure he’d produced felt suddenly fresh, as if it had just happened. She thought about the night after his visit, when she’d lain in bed longing for him. The only thing she could think about was how incredible it might be to feel his body joined with hers. Would he maintain control? Would he growl like he had before?

His primal strength and the hint of danger had excited her that night, until she’d had to provide her own release. And she’d called on that fantasy many times since.

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