Shadow Touched by Erin Kellison

Author:Erin Kellison [Kellison, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781601835772
Google: TeusCAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00WPRBMIK
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

Ellie gripped the window frame as her shadow strained within the casing of her flesh-and-blood body—fighting, angry, anguished, helpless. She ached with the effort to hold her darkest self under her control. A renegade naked shadow was the last thing everyone here needed. And after the scene in the kitchen when Marcie died two nights ago . . .

Let go, shadow Ellie, Cam had said. Let Marcie go free. Be mine again.

Well, it was best she and her shadow kept their distance.

The Segue staff was in the ballroom for the memorial, chatting low or sniffling, which made her shadow harder to hold—so much emotion. Ellie forced her attention outside, where hope was alive, though she couldn’t feel it herself.

Eight-year-old JT Parson was on the lawn, a story below her window vantage, laughing and playing soccer with his brother and the guard assigned to their protection. He jogged over to the ball and deftly kicked it backward to his brother. Slick move. She’d been able to save JT. And just look at him now. She’d been part of that.

But Marcie . . . Segue was darker without her. Everyone felt it. Because that’s really who’d been holding Shadow back—at least for Ellie. Marcie and her easy, generous laugh had banished darkness. It was so obvious now.

The shadow tried to curl forward, as if to protect a gut wound, but Ellie wouldn’t let it. Of course this whole thing would be easier if she let her shadow go; the analytical part of her wouldn’t feel the grief nearly as much. But Ellie wanted to mourn Marcie. Needed to. What kind of a friend would she be to choose not to feel?

“Looks like JT’s going to be all right,” Cam observed behind Ellie, his body just close enough that she could feel a light hum of warmth.

Right. JT. Think of JT until the worst of this passes.

JT had been the subject of their last mission, some seven months ago, in Sedona, Arizona. He’d been lost in Twilight, and while yes, he’d come through mostly okay, he’d also developed some issues separating dream from reality, which was why the family of three had come to Segue. This morning, his mother, Angie, had silently and without question taken over in the kitchen. No one left her alone for a moment; Segue learned from its mistakes. And this had been a big one.

Cam’s arms went around Ellie’s waist, and he rested his chin on her head, as if to help keep her two parts together. Their inside joke.

After Marcie’s death, it was a necessity. It had been Cam who’d at last talked her shadow into letting go of Marcie’s body when Ellie herself had had no control. And that’s because Marcie had been a real friend, one who hadn’t been just polite about Ellie’s situation—that her shadow could move around independently of her body; that her shadow walked around naked and liked it; and that her shadow always reacted on the most primal level, which could be very scary, rude, inappropriate, or, according to Marcie, entertaining.

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