Strife: Hidden Book Four by Colleen Vanderlinden

Author:Colleen Vanderlinden [Vanderlinden, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal romance
Publisher: Building Block Studios LLC
Published: 2014-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

The area immediately around my house was a mess, trampled by the fire fighters who had apparently showed up not long after we’d left. I checked out the closest trees and my garage for Strife’s mark. When I didn’t find anything, I started looking for signs in the other adjoining lots, and Nain went off in the opposite direction.

In the end, I checked every tree between my house and the corner, as well as what was left of the burned out house on the corner, and didn’t come up with anything. I took my time even though I was pretty sure I wouldn’t find anything once I got away from the area immediately surrounding my house. Strife wasn’t subtle. If her people had left a mark, it would have been near what was left of my house.

What the hell had I just done in there? I chided myself. This was Nain, for god’s sake. The man who’d destroyed me. Lied to me. The man I’d sworn was wrong for me in every way once I had some time and distance from him. And now what were we doing? Starting down the same road again with one another. The problem was that I’d already seen the end of that road and I couldn’t go there again.

Stupid. So stupid. He’s bad for me. Not because he’d ever hurt me (unless he felt like it would save me somehow. Bastard.) but because when he’s in my life, all I want is him. There is no halfway, nothing casual about Nain and I when we’re together.

And on top of all of that, Nether was starting to push at my defenses again. “Calm down, bitch,” I muttered, and it only made her start pushing harder, trying to find a weakness, trying to overpower me.

I took a deep breath, trying to ignore the insane immortal imprisoned inside me, and started walking back toward my house.

Nain was already waiting when I got there, leaning up against the side of his truck watching me.

He opened my door for me, and I climbed in. Then he climbed in his side and slammed the truck door closed behind him. “It had to be her. This shit isn’t random.”

I was grateful he was being professional again. Maybe he was realizing how stupid we’d just been, too.

“She would have left her mark. She likes that, especially here. Taunting me is her thing, right?”

He was silent. “Who else is pissed off at you?”

“Who isn’t?”

I felt a little bit of humor from him. “Try to narrow it down a little.”

“Strife, obviously. More than a few of the immortals. Probably a few I wouldn’t think of.”

“Because you forced them to listen to you,” he said, and I nodded.

“Could just be any of the assholes we typically deal with, except that my mom would have caught up with one of them, I think.”

He nodded. “Had to be an immortal, right? Able to do that thing where they disappear.”

“I think that makes the most sense.”

“Okay. So Strife. Zeus and Hera don’t like you much, you said.

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