Stoneheart by Cate Corvin & Melora François

Author:Cate Corvin & Melora François [Corvin, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Impish Heart Press
Published: 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I was still high on Gio when we got back to the penthouse. A second round in the shower had wrung every last drop of pleasure out of my body, and against my protests, Gio had carried me into the penthouse like a damn bride. He finally put me down when I threatened to bedazzle his dick the next time he fell asleep. The threat of a little sparkle does strange things to men.

When I caught my balance after he dropped me like I was on fire, I noticed Sawyer sitting on the couch, elbows on his knees, face resting in his hands. My stoneheart slowed to a crawl, the beats so far apart one could believe it had stopped completely.

“What is it?” My voice was a croak, the hairs on the back my neck prickling along my stony skin. “What’s happened?”

He lifted his head and caught my gaze, his eyes anguished. My knees went weak and I grabbed the back of the couch to stop them from giving out completely.

“I’m so sorry, Zar. I swear to you, I tried. I did everything I could but they had already made up their mind before I even got to them. No matter what I did I couldn’t get them to see reason. I’m sorry, I tried so hard not to let you down.”

I knew. Even without him saying it explicitly, I knew. It was over. Everything I knew had ceased to be, and there was no chance it was going to change.

“They let me go.” After everything I’d given to the job, the dedication, the blood, sweat, and tears. I’d changed into something slightly different, something even better equipped to handle the dangers being on the force entailed, and yet that difference was enough for them to throw me away like so much trash. I should have seen it coming, but my tiny kernel of hope had been founded in the slim chance that performance would outweigh the arbitrary rules of the Accords.

Shame on me for ignoring the obvious.

“We can fight it, we’ll find another way to—”

“No.”

“No?”

“No, I don’t want to fight it.”

“You don’t mean that, Zar, you’re just upset and hurt right now.”

“I am. I am hurt, and I am upset, but I’m not going to pursue it.”

“Why?”

“Because they don’t want me there, Sawyer. I don’t want to walk into a building everyday filled with people who hate me for what I am.” I shook my head and swallowed hard past the lump in my throat. “It’s not fair to me, especially since I had no choice in the matter. And you know what? It’s not fair to them to force them to work with someone they fear.”

“That’s bullshit,” Sawyer spat, anger coloring his cheeks and tone. “That’s bigoted crap that assholes like Selter spew, but it’s not true.”

“No, but I was guilty of it not too long ago. They fear me because they don’t know better. All we tend to see is the worst side of gargoyles, so it makes sense that they’d be too afraid to work side by side with me.

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