Taken (Enchanted Foxes Book 3) by Juniper Hart

Author:Juniper Hart [Hart, Juniper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

The temperatures were sub-zero when Svetlana Orlyk stumbled outside to the mailbox, her small feet in a pair of fuzzy pink slippers. In the few short steps, her porcelain face had already frozen from the cold, and by the time she had collected the few items from the box, she could not feel her fingers.

Spilling back into the house, she shut the door with force, like that would keep the frigid air at bay, but there was no escaping the bitterness of the winters in this part of the world. She scurried toward the fireplace, her clear blue eyes trained on the letters in her hands.

“Get anything interesting?” Andreas asked. Svetlana ignored him. He arched an eyebrow, watching the slender brunette flip through the post. Her hand paused delicately over a cream-colored envelope, and her heart began to race. She immediately recognized the handwriting, and she tried to hide it before Andreas saw it, but it was too late.

“What is that you’re looking at?” Andreas demanded, standing up from the hearth to close the distance between them.

“Nothing,” Svetlana replied, shoving the envelope at the bottom of the pile. The action was futile. He was already onto her.

That’s why he’s here, isn’t it? For this very reason?

“What is that?” he asked again, his voice growing sinister. “Give it to me.”

Sighing, she retrieved the card from the bottom of the pile and handed it to him, managing to hide her trembling hands. He peered at the envelope, his brow furrowing in anger as he ripped it open. He thrust it back toward her and tapped the card inside.

“What does it say?” he asked, his words like tiny bullets. “Tell me!”

“I don’t know, Andreas. It’s in English,” Svetlana retorted, grabbing the paper back. “Only barbarians speak English.”

Andreas’ mouth twisted into a sneer, and Svetlana could tell that he didn’t believe a word she spoke. “Why did someone send you a letter in English?”

“Wrong address, probably. Why don’t you go ask them?” she retorted. “You should catch the first plane to America right now.”

Andreas ignored her, his eyes taking in the paper warily, as if trying to comprehend the words through osmosis.

“Seems suspicious,” he muttered. “And very curious.”

“Everything seems suspicious to you,” she barked back with more irritation than she should have, flopping into a chair. Andreas smiled and leaned closer, his eyes glittering with malice.

“You know, Lana, if you tell me where she is, we will go and not bother you again,” he told her in a coy voice. “Look around you. How much longer do you want to live this way?”

Svetlana snorted contemptuously and waved her hand like he was a pesky fly. “As long as I have breath, you will bother me, Andreas. The thought of you bothers me. It has almost been a year. When are you going to figure out that she’s not coming here? Wherever she is, she is not contacting me, and she is not coming back.”

“I go where I am told, Lana. Don’t be mad at me.

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