Shadowed by Anderson Evangeline

Author:Anderson, Evangeline [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Adult
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

“Damn it,” Reddix muttered, tossing and turning on the hard packed floor right outside the bedroom door. He wished he would have had the forethought to bring one of the oblong, dry grass stuffed pillows the Feeling People had provided when he left, but it was too late now. He was stuck out here with one thin fur blanket and nothing else—and he was damned if he was going back into that room tonight.

Not that he didn’t want to.

For a long time he’d heard the soft sounds of Nina crying from behind the thin door—the muffled sounds of hurt—a hurt he had caused her. He’d ached to go back to her and apologize—to comfort her for the pain he’d inflicted. But he didn’t dare. If he went back in, he wouldn’t be able to resist her. And the way she’d talked to him—the way she’d said he could be someone to her if only he would let himself…the way she had begged him to stay…it was too much. Too tempting.

Have to leave her alone, he told himself grimly. I want her too much—need her too much. But all I bring her is pain. Why the hell did I have to tell her about the swamp witch, anyway? What good does it do her to know what I had planned for her? Why couldn’t I just tell her the beacon was tripped and leave it at that instead of twisting the knife?

Reddix didn’t know when he had become such a sick, twisted bastard, but he hated himself for it. Hated himself far too much to let himself take the comfort Nina offered. Especially when he deserved nothing but pain.

Not that the hard packed ground he was lying on was anything but painful.

He shifted again and somehow managed to find a semi-comfortable spot. Maybe he’d be able to catch a little sleep after all—if he could just turn off the loop of guilt inside his skull for a few hours. It helped that the soft sounds of sadness were no longer issuing from inside the bedroom. Instead, all he could hear was her soft, even breathing. Apparently Nina had cried herself out and gone to sleep. Maybe now he could rest too.

“Sorry, sweetheart,” he muttered under his breath as his eyelids started to sag closed at last. “So fucking sorry…”

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