Tempting Danger (Sinclair and Raven Book 6) by Wendy Vella

Author:Wendy Vella
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Vella Ink
Published: 2019-10-16T22:00:00+00:00

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Alice felt every jolt and every twitch as she rode before Wolf. Nicholas was at her side, silent, somber, and shocked.

Lilly had healed her, and he had witnessed that. How did they explain it to him? Would he be repulsed and turn from them with the realization of what they could do?

Dev had Lilly before him, in his arms, and her eyes were closed as she slept. Exhausted from the healing.

“I’m sorry.”

“Why did you take the opposite route to everyone else, Alice?” Wolf questioned her.

She had no answer to that, so she simply apologized once more.

“She cannot be blamed for the bird flying in front of her horse, Wolf.” Her guilt increased as Nicholas defended her.

What had gone through his head when he’d found her lying unconscious on the ground? He’d yelled at her to stop; she’d ignored him. Then he’d roared that there was danger. Had he not done so, the damage to her could have been irreparable. She had hurt him too. The guilt intensified.

“But the point is, she was where she should not have been yet again. I went one way, so she went the other. It was reckless and irresponsible.”

She let Wolf say what he needed to. Understood his words were motivated by worry.

“You say to me constantly you are the steady one of the three of us. Lately, I would dispute that fact.”

“She is hurting, Wolf. Enough now.”

Her brother’s mouth formed a thin, angry line at Nicholas’s words but he said nothing further, which she was grateful for.

Guilt settled its heavy weight like a cloak around her shoulders.

She looked at Nicholas, watched him flinch as he rotated his shoulder.

“Are you hurt, Nicholas?”

“What... pardon?” His eyes found hers.

“Were you not thrown from your horse?”

“Are you hurt, cousin?”

“I am well.”

“Yet the pallor in your cheeks and those clipped words would suggest otherwise,” James persisted.

Dev slowed his horse to draw alongside Nicholas. His eyes flashed green. “Your color is also weaker. Where is your pain?”

“I am well, don’t fuss. I have just aggravated my shoulder slightly.”

Alice saw a carriage up ahead, and beside it stood Essie.

“I had felt you needed me, so sent the others on.”

“We do. Alice had a fall. Lilly healed her,” Dev said.

“Get them inside,” Essie ordered. “I have some food from the picnic, and blankets.”

“Nicholas is injured, Essie. But he won’t tell us where,” James said, dismounting.

“I am not badly hurt,” he protested.

Alice was lowered into Max’s arms and placed inside the carriage. She bit back the moan as he put her onto the seat and the pains in her body intensified. Dev helped Lilly inside. He pulled out a blanket and tucked it around her.

“Here.” Essie thrust him a bundle wrapped in a napkin and a flask.

He opened it and handed Lilly two sandwiches.

“Eat it, love, and then sip the brandy.”

Lilly nodded, but didn’t speak. Exhaustion radiated off her.

I did this to her.

Dev’s love was there in the way he smoothed Lilly’s hair off her face and kissed her cheek. Each gesture increased her guilt.

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