Solstice Surrender by Cooper-Posey Tracy

Author:Cooper-Posey, Tracy [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
ISBN: 9781927423271
Publisher: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Published: 2012-10-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

They showered together in order to stay together and shared quiet words. Jenna lathered him and this time she lingered over each of the many scars he wore. For each he would give her the sense/image of the occasion of its delivery. Most of them were painful battle scars earned fighting against an enemy that wore so many faces they blended into an amorphous Enemy that he had battled his entire life and still had not beaten. The scars were the product of knives, guns, swords and all manner of weapons and objects that had taken their toll on him.

Jenna wept a few bitter tears for each of them. She thought the shower spray hid them until Rhys took her in his arms and kissed her eyes. Don’t cry for me. And the thought came with the sense that he would willingly do it all again, knowing she waited for him somewhere ahead.

“Does your strange world not know mercy? Is there no rest, no reprieve?”

“There are moments. For anyone, even the merely human, there are moments.” He smiled down at her. “Such as this one. And the moments add up.”

She rested her head against his chest for a moment and felt his heartbeat. Yes, it was a peaceful moment. But I, too, can feel the tension building now. I need answers.

You shall have them. And she felt him sigh.

Who is the Enemy? I thought it was a part of humans, the dark half, that you worked to root out. She thought of Clement Hine. People like him seem purely evil and bent on defeating you.

Hine is human and watcher, both. But he, like all humans, has a dark side, a capacity for evil. And during his life he went astray. Sadness touched him.

Jenna realized that Rhys had known Hine for a long time. Long before Hine had ‘gone astray’.

“The dark side of the force?” Jenna quipped.

That’s very close to the real truth. His thoughts leapt onwards, encompassing all of humanity with its capability for evil. She saw the social conscience and personal ethics that keep most from wickedness and the threat of human laws that subdue others. But for some, the bad ways are easier, quicker and less troublesome and the laws don’t hold them. These people twist human nature to suit themselves, regardless of the long term consequences. If that sort of person has a will that can bend others to his nature, he can lead those weaker others into the same dark paths.

Rhys showed her how that might happen, how influential people with evil in their hearts corrupted other souls and how he and others like him forever kept watch for people like that and for the corruption they spread, so they could root it out and destroy it before it took seed. Those are the sorts of patterns and pockets we watch out for and deal with as we can.

This was the work she was destined for? She straightened her back, drawing away from him so she could focus on his face properly, causing the hot water to spill down between her breasts.

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