Shadowlander (Shadow Sisters) by Meyers Theresa

Author:Meyers, Theresa [Meyers, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: historical romance, Midsummers Eve, fairytale, fairies, romance, fantasy romance, Theresa Meyers, novella, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, fae
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Published: 2011-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The afternoon sun warming his back and the gurgle of the river would have been pleasant, if a war hadn’t been going on inside him.

Rook waited until Cate had disappeared into the dense thicket of trees before he hastily wrote a missive to his father on a scrap of vellum.

Have captured a Seer. Will reach you by tonight.

He rolled it into a small scroll, then took a beetle flier from his pocket, held it in the palm of his hand, and tapped its hard shell.

The iridescent blue-green metal casing opened, allowing the small glass- and gold-veined wings to unfurl. “Deliver this missive to the King of Shadows and no other,” he instructed the mechanical messenger as it clasped the scroll between its thin metallic legs. Vibrating faster and faster, the glass wings began to hum, and the beetle lifted into the air. It quickly became a glittering speck before disappearing among the trees.

It was done. Once the missive reached his father, Rook could not take it back. The entire court would turn out to observe the new Seer brought among them. He stuffed the remnants of their repast back into the saddlebag—and his feelings down deeper, until they swelled painfully in his chest.

Duty and honor warred with something far darker and deeper that was growing inside him. He’d always admired Cate from afar, thought of her in his dreams, but now that he’d touched her and felt her respond, those feelings were beginning to twist and change into something else entirely.

He didn’t know what to call it, this powerful drive to protect her, to know she would be his and his alone, no matter the consequences. It was foolhardy and rash. Bold and consuming. Fae generally didn’t have solitary life mates or binds to only one and no others. It was an anomaly among them. And the need to do just that was hungry and eating him alive from the inside out.

Cate emerged from the woods, looking every bit as elegant, every bit as magickal to him as any of the Ragnorian- or Makcay-caste fae. The way she held her shoulders, the tilt of her chin, and the very elegance with which she moved marked her as regal. The powerful among the court would fight him to have a taste of her. And he would fight back. Cate was his.

“Are you ready to see the capital?” He extended his hands to lift her into the saddle of her catamount.

Cate wrapped her arms around his neck, bringing them into brain-searing contact that burned away his rational thoughts. “Kind of a silly question,” she said with a tilt of her head, her eyes bright. “A person can’t be ready for something they’ve never experienced before.”

Oh, he doubted that. He’d been ready and waiting for her for fourteen of her years. A mere smidgen of time in his world, but once he’d discovered she could actually see him, could touch him, each second she wasn’t totally his stretched into infinity.

He bent down,

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.