The Echo Trilogy Collection (Books 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, & 3) by Lindsey Fairleigh

Author:Lindsey Fairleigh [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-10-16T06:00:00+00:00

26

Will & Won’t

I rushed back to camp, Nuin a short ways behind me. I was practicing some pretty impressive repression skills; of all that Nuin had just revealed, only a single thing had truly sunk in: if I bonded with Heru in this time, bonding withdrawals wouldn’t kill him when I left. We could have this much more time together. I could really share part of Marcus’s ancient past with him, and when I returned to my own time, I could unblock his memories of us now, and together, we could revel in the experiences we’d shared millennia ago.

And we’re going to have children . . . twins . . .

Nope, I definitely wasn’t ready to deal with that little revelation yet. Absolutely, definitely not. I was ready to think about anything but that.

What I needed was to find Heru. I was resolved to finally tell him the truth, to finally confess everything about where I came from, who I was, and who he was to me.

His tent was my first stop, closely followed by the one I shared with Denai and the other two priestesses who’d chosen to accompany me to the Oasis, which was sandwiched between Heru’s and Nuin’s tents. Both were empty, so I wandered from tiny cookfire to tiny cookfire—there were only three of them, each manned by cooks under Heni’s guidance—but Heru wasn’t posted around any of them. Frustrated, I headed for the edge of camp, intending to walk a circle around the perimeter to see if I could spot him among the limestone cliffs and sand dunes surrounding us.

But I didn’t spot him; I heard him.

His voice lured me in, harsh and clipped, and though I couldn’t understand his words, I could hear how impassioned he was. I followed the sound toward a lopsided monolith near the rock outcropping. And when I saw him—with her—on the other side of the monolith, I froze.

Ankhesenpepi’s back was to the tall stone, and Heru’s body was flush against hers, his hand gripping her neck and his face mere inches from hers.

I wanted to scream, to shout for him to release her, to will her into nonexistence. I needed, with every fiber of my being, to warn her off him . . . to claim him, just as I’d done in my own time. But this wasn’t my own time. I clenched my hands into fists, my nails digging into my palms, and I kept just this side of losing control.

A desert wind picked up around me, gusting in their direction.

Heru snapped his head my way, and suddenly I was a deer and his eyes were headlights and I had to run, to escape, if I was going to have any chance of surviving some imminent collision. I spun around and hurtled toward the nearest possible safe haven—the huge rock outcropping—no thought for the wind whipping through my hair or snapping the fabric of my dress.

I wasn’t a slow runner. But Heru was faster. If Nuin hadn’t reset the block cutting off my access to his sheut, I could have jumped to any place I desired.

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