Stricken (The War Scrolls Book 1) by A.K. Morgen

Author:A.K. Morgen [Morgen, A.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

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Aubrey fell asleep as they drove through Missouri, curling into the passenger seat in a small ball. The soft cadence of her breath eased Killian, lulling him toward an inner quiet he’d lost somewhere beneath the stain of blood and abrupt, violent death in the last four months.

When she woke at noon, they were halfway through Illinois. She didn’t speak to Killian, and he didn’t push her. Deep shadows surrounded green eyes lost in thought as she stared blindly at the dashboard, rubbing Zee’s fur between her fingers.

Killian wanted to tell her that everything would work out. That the friends she worried about would be fine and that nothing they found would hurt her. He couldn’t lie to her, though, even had he wanted to. He didn’t. If he’d learned anything about the beautiful little human in the last few days, it was that she preferred the awful truth to a pleasant lie.

That surprised him.

She’d run from the past for so long, doing her best to bury the pain beneath the grim weight and daily grind of human life, but even then, she hadn’t lied to herself about it. And she hadn’t lied to him, either. She could have offered him a false smile and told him she was fine like so many other humans seemed to do when they hurt, but she didn’t.

Had he ever been so honest with himself?

The desire to kiss her, to hold her, grew a little stronger every day. Talking himself out of that rash act was no easy feat. In truth, he didn’t want to talk himself out of getting further entangled with Aubrey. She was soft and warm when he’d had little of softness or warmth in longer than he cared to consider. Fallen females avoided him, and the human girls who approached him were the type he knew to avoid.

Aubrey was nothing like those girls. And Killian was tired of trying to convince himself that didn’t matter. She captivated him, confused him, and made him yearn for the intimacy of touch, of surrender. But she was just a girl, and she didn’t feel the same pull. When this nightmare ended for her, if he got her out of it in one piece, she would walk away and not look back.

She had every right to do so. And he wouldn’t blame her if she did.

But even so…ever since he’d nearly kissed her in the living room, he struggled to remember all the reasons he couldn’t have her. Not even Abriel’s reminder that she was human had helped. If anything, it’d only served to piss him off. He’d tried to avoid her since, but that hadn’t worked, either. He’d found himself stealing glances at her whenever he could. Found himself drawn to her more and more.

The reasons for that alarmed him.

“We’ll have to stop for gas soon,” he murmured to her over the quiet hum of the radio.

“Okay,” she said, still rubbing the kitten’s fur between her fingers.

“Do you need anything?”

“No, thank you.”

“We should probably let Zee out to walk around.

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