The Half-Breed Demon [Redemption 1] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Marcy Jacks

Author:Marcy Jacks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I won’t let them take you,” Dante said. His voice felt raw, like he’d spent the night in a screaming fit, but unless his memories were messing with him, he hadn’t been doing that.

Jeremy stared at him with a somewhat apprehensive look on his face, which was far from the relieved expression Dante would have liked to see.

“That is not for either of us to decide, Dante.”

“No!” Dante yelled. The room felt sweltering hot around him, probably because of how fast his heart was beating beneath his ribs. It felt like there wasn’t enough air getting into his lungs. Maybe he was having a panic attack.

After everything he’d seen and learned, that would make sense.

“You can’t just come into my life and make me feel this and then walk away like nothing happened! You can’t tell me these things and sleep with me and then not try and do something when someone wants to take you away.”

“It’s not my choice,” Jeremy said.

“Bullshit,” Dante snapped back. “That is a load of fucking bullshit. You didn’t even try to convince them. You would’ve gone if I hadn’t done something, and I did, and now they’re going to go and get another answer. They would’ve checked with a superior if you’d just asked them to.”

“It’s not that simple. Dante, please calm yourself.”

“Why should I?” he yelled.

Jeremy pressed his lips together in a firm line, then he held out his hand.

“What?” Dante asked, looking down at the offered palm like it might be holding a trap or something.

“Come with me,” Jeremy said.

He was still angry as all hell, but Dante put his hand into Jeremy’s. That cleansing tingle shot through his hand, up his arm, into his chest, and through his bones, making his nerve endings crackle pleasurably.

He felt immediately better, but the anger was still with him.

Jeremy led him into the bathroom, and he saw in the mirror what had the other man so afraid of him.

He nearly broke down at the sight of himself. Perhaps he would have if Jeremy’s arm had not wound around his waist, keeping him up. “Oh my God.”

“It will go away. Don’t worry,” Jeremy said, though not worrying was the last thing that Dante thought he could do. “Just let the anger leave you and it will go away.”

“Are you sure?” Dante asked. “I’ve never…I’ve never…” He couldn’t even bring himself to talk about what it was that he saw or what he looked like.

He’d never looked like this before, even when he was experiencing some of his worse moods, and he didn’t see how it could just go away.

It was like there was a fire under his skin, turning it a charred black, with cracks similar to the dried-out lands in Africa marring him, and each one glowed a bright red. So did his eyes. There were twin bumps on either side of his forehead as well, and he would have thought they were just oversized pimples, but when he touched them, he could feel the sharp sting of pointed bone beneath.

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