Starry Knight by Nina Mason

Author:Nina Mason [Mason, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781616505486
Google: 1hJjBgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1616505494
Goodreads: 25605731
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Callum looked up at the luminous pre-dawn sky, his chest weighted by dread. Another week had flown by since he’d taught Vanessa to hunt and, in another few minutes, they’d be setting off for London.

He’d succeeded in convincing her to extend her stay in Caithness, but, to his great distress, she’d refused to abandon her plan to take the job in New Orleans. To him, it seemed beyond absurd for a faery to conduct paranormal investigations, but she was determined to chase her dream. Now, he was driving her all the way back to Soho, where he would help her close up her flat. After that, he’d drop her and the Land Rover at Gatwick airport before taking the train back to Wick.

When she appeared on the castle’s front portico with her suitcases, he took a long, pining look at her, drinking in every detail of her flawless face and figure. How long would that snapshot have to serve him? She wore the same skirt and boots as that first day he took her sightseeing. Longing tightened his chest. Christ, but she looked radiant in the pale light of the breaking dawn. Bonnier even than when she was human, something he hadn’t believed possible.

“Have you got everything?” he called to her.

“Everything but my mobile,” she said. “I guess I’ll have to get a new one before I go. Or do you think I should wait until I get to America and avoid the roaming charges?”

“Neither,” he said, twinging with guilt. “I found your phone—at the bottom of the laundry hamper, oddly enough.”

“That is odd.” Suspicion clouded her eyes. “I wonder how it got there.”

He shrugged to augment the lie. “Who knows?”

With a determined set to her features, she descended the portico steps. As she approached, he offered her a faltering smile, fished her phone out of his pocket, and held it out to her.

Christ, how he hated that she was leaving and the thought of doing without her, but he hated even more the idea of her going so far away on her own when she was still a fledgling. He’d taught her the fundamentals of shifting and hunting, but she’d still need to find willing donors to satisfy her appetites.

The mere idea of her shagging other men wrapped barbed wire around his heart. But what more could he do? Ordering her about was not the way to go, he’d learned that much in their brief time together. She was a free-spirited, freedom-loving, do-good-ing Aquarian. One faint whiff of his innate possessiveness and she’d fly away forever.

Besides, he’d meant what he said about butterflies. He liked his elusive, erratic, endearing swallowtail just as she was. He just hoped she didn’t go ballistic when he slept with other women. She’d said she understood, of course, but Uranians were changeable creatures.

“So, when should I plan on visiting?”

While he’d asked the question a thousand times already, he’d yet to get a straight answer.

“I told you,” she returned with a censorious scowl. “When I’m ready.

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