The Highwayman by Hauf Michele

Author:Hauf, Michele [Hauf, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426835988
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

But then, she did want to get to know him better. Wasn’t turnabout fair play?

Just a peek was all he wanted.

“It won’t hurt,” he muttered, with a grin. “Promise.”

The pull to shadow always manifested as a dark desire he would not resist. Clenching his fists at the tug to his soul, Max surrendered to the shadow. It melted over him, claiming, cracking away his humanity. He could be a solid man-shape as the shadow, or a mere blot upon the floor. The shadow chose.

Tonight, he hovered in solid form at the end of Aby’s bed. Adorned in darkness and raiments of night, the shadow devoured the peaceful quiet. Opening its maw, it breathed the silence.

Before it lay a sleeping being. It did not discern age or sex. The energy was strong. So strong, it drew the shadow forward.

It glided, dark night-robes of insubstantial shadow slipping across the rumpled white sheets. A hand spread out, its long taloned fingers splayed as it positioned over the sleeping entity’s head. There, where dreams dazzled and reviled. Dreams so delicious and wicked and cruel. It fed upon emotion ensnared by sleep. As the eyelids fluttered with movement beneath, the shadow hitched a ride.

This one smiled in sleep, a cozy slumber. Flickers of another being manifested in the shadow’s preternatural experience. Larger. Stronger. Shaped differently than the dreamer but of the same species. The being pressed its mouth over the sleeper’s mouth.

A kiss. The shadow knew the ways of mortal sleepers.

Freedom. Green. So clean. Scampering over grass. Not this time, but from time long ago. The images were not in the sleeper’s mind, though.

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