Stolen (Edgefield Slayers Book 2) by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-07-03T23:00:00+00:00

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Dr. Seth and his nurse came to tend both Krista and Asa, and after he’d bandaged Krista’s wrists and examined Asa, his advice was for both of them to go to the hospital. He could patch them up, but they needed more in-depth tests and scans to check for internal bleeding and the like.

Asa only agreed when Krista grimaced, put a hand to her abdomen, and said she’d go if he would. She didn’t need the hospital, and she knew that, but she was afraid Asa might. Sometimes a woman had to manipulate the stubborn man she loved.

She couldn’t stop worrying about Triganoth. Sure, he was a powerful demon lord accustomed to the brutality of his world, but she couldn’t bear the thought of him suffering alone in some horrible dungeon. And she knew no matter what terrible things he was going through, his worry would be for her.

Something was happening. He wouldn’t have stayed away from her otherwise. He wouldn’t have left her to Vogdris. Maybe the king of the red-dark had run out of patience and decided Triganoth should pay for his inability to yank the soul-stealer back to his world.

Though there was no way to know for sure, that was what she believed. That was what she feared. Thanks to Garreth, the demon who’d possessed her, she had a very grim understanding of some of the things that went on in the dungeons of the demons’ world. Some of it had been carried out by Triganoth.

She didn’t want to think about that.

The nurses found her an empty room so she could get some rest while she waited for Asa to finish his tests. The doctor had cleared her, but she wasn’t quite human. She could take more damage than Asa. She’d given them her cell phone number and told them to call her the second Asa was ready to see her. Then she fell into the uncomfortable hospital bed and tried to get some sleep.

But worry kept her awake. Worry over Trig, Asa, the innocents that Vogdris held. Fear that the evil would not be vanquished, not that time.

Her wrists ached and throbbed and hurt just enough to be irritating as her slayer body attempted to heal the demon lord’s magical damage.

She groaned and flopped onto her back, glaring at the ceiling, but before she could give up and get out of bed, Luke slipped in beside her.

He stared down at her. “Do you need me to hold you, or do you need—”

She grabbed his head and pulled his mouth to hers. What she needed was to forget long enough to reset her mind. What she needed was to finally have Luke Lawson inside her.

And it didn’t matter that they were in a hospital room waiting to hear about the man they both cared about. It only mattered that they needed each other, and that they could get lost in each other’s arms for a little while.

He kicked off his boots and then she helped him off with his button-up shirt, greedy to touch him.

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