Taste of Darkness by Katie Reus

Author:Katie Reus [Reus, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Darkness#2
Published: 2014-07-24T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

This is beyond stupid. Bran Devlin wouldn’t even look at his brother as they cruised down the highway toward the Petronilla village. Instead he stared out the darkly tinted window of the SUV they’d rented—annoyed they didn’t have a bullet resistant vehicle—scanning the snow-capped mountainous landscape. They were roughly twenty miles out when they shouldn’t be here at all. It makes us look weak. As leader of the Devlin clan that was something he couldn’t afford. Something his normally astute and deadly brother would understand. Bran might hate that he’d been forced into ruling the clan after his parents’ deaths, but he took full responsibility for his people. Coming here like this wasn’t a smart tactical move.

Fia wants to see Dragos. They were childhood friends. A sigh broke into Bran’s thoughts, his brother Gavin not bothering to hide his frustration at having this conversation again.

We should have waited a week or so to arrive. Not shown up the same fucking evening the male’s mate had come out of a Veles dragon poisoning. How could his brother or even Fia think this was intelligent reasoning? It was poor form. But his brother could never deny his mate Fia anything. The female was his brother’s only weakness. But normally his brother could rein in Fia’s sometimes frivolous requests.

You didn’t have to come. A bite to Gavin’s words.

Turning to look at him, his jaw tight, Bran glared at his brother through his one good eye. And let you walk into this viper’s nest alone? That was perhaps harsh considering the Devlin and Petronilla clans were peaceful with each other. But his brother had basically stolen Fia from Conall, the current leader of the clan. It didn’t matter that it was years ago; males tended not to forget those things. Bran’s attendance for this gathering had nothing to do with his clan leader duties and everything to do with being a big brother protecting his younger sibling.

Is that what this is really about? Gavin asked.

What else would it be about? Your fucking mate says jump and you ask how high. So here I am because of that female. Harsh, untrue words. Ones that would earn him a fist across the face. And one he wouldn’t block.

Gavin was silent for a long moment, his green eyes flickering from dragon to human as he watched. You have partial eyesight. You have no reason to be ashamed or to avoid interaction with others. Soft, unexpected words. Even if you seem to hate our kind.

Jaw tight, Bran turned to look out the window again. He wished his brother had just smashed his nose in rather than say all that. Gavin was ten years younger than him and usually the more passive of the two. Unless any ill mention was made of Fia. So Bran had been expecting, no craving, the physical violence over the words he’d just thrown at his brother. Not…softness.

I don’t hate our kind. And he wasn’t ashamed, he just didn’t like the pitying stares, especially from females.

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