Tallius by Susan Bliler

Author:Susan Bliler [Bliler, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Jamming double middle fingers at Tallius’s bedroom door, Mira inwardly screeched. Her anger jerked her wolf to the fore where she paced just beneath the surface. Coarse fur brushing the underside of Mira’s skin made it feel like she was being pet from the inside out. It was comforting and terrifying. Every time her wolf surged forward, Mira wondered if it’d be the last time. Lowering her hands, she quietly whispered, “I should have taken better care of you. I’m sorry.”

Silently, her wolf slunk away, receding deeper inside her until Mira was left cold and alone with a hollow feeling centered in the middle of her chest. She was fucked and she knew it. She needed to get back to Fury territory to nurse her wolf back to form, but she wasn’t getting off this mountain, not anytime soon. It meant she wasn’t getting away from Tallius either, and she wanted away from him like she wanted her next fucking breath. He made the air thin. He made her head hurt. He made her heart ache with the memories of her old pack and their devastation at his hands. Yeah, he’d been following his Alpha’s orders, but so what? It didn’t change anything. He’d admitted that he’d suggested attacking when her FourClaws were at their most vulnerable, and for that alone she’d never forgive him. Never!

Yet . . . Swallowing thickly, she couldn’t deny some underlying compulsion to understand his motives. Everything with him was so fucking contradictory that it left her reeling. She wanted to hate him and she wanted not to.

Sliding down onto the couch, she pulled the blankets up to under her chin and winced as she rolled onto her side. Her muscles were sore like she’d worked out after being on a long hiatus. Her back was super tender, but she ignored the pull and resulting ache that ripped through her when she drew her knees up and curled into a little ball. She felt so alone. Tears pricked the back of her eyes, and without anyone there to see, she let them come.

She’d had a plan when she’d come here. She was going to confront Tallius. She was going to show her wolf that he was just a shifter like any other. She was going to prove to herself that he wasn’t the dark menace her nightmares had built him into. Then she was going to go on vacation and buy herself lots of girly cocktails with olives and umbrellas and too much alcohol as a reward for her bravery. But none of that was happening. Her plan of putting the memory of Tallius to bed once and for all would be impossible now. She wouldn’t lie to herself and pretend she wasn’t attracted to him, because she was. Hell, attracted might even be too weak a word for what she was feeling. Part of her prayed it was some fucked-up form of Nightingale syndrome. He’d rescued her and cared for her, and there’d be gratitude for that regardless of her preconceived beliefs about him.

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