The Hunt Begins by Quinn Loftis

Author:Quinn Loftis [Loftis, Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quinn Loftis Books, LLC

Chapter

Eleven

“I want to run to you. I know that in your arms I will find safety, acceptance, protection, and love. I want to hear my name on your lips. I long to be near you. But I fear I have lost my right to ask for such things. Sometimes the consequences of our actions are just too terrible. They take us past a boundary from which we cannot return.” ~Perizada

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Peri bowed her head. Lucian’s words filled every empty place inside her. She let her mate’s warmth invade her. His pain had hit her out of nowhere and sucked the oxygen from her lungs. Once she’d caught her breath, she realized it was the fae bond that had forced them to connect. She’d kept that bond closed to Lucian because of how vulnerable it would make her to him. She’d been a fool to think he wouldn’t one day find out about it.

Peri allowed herself several minutes of solace that came from the brief contact with her mate. She didn’t deserve his comfort, but she took it anyway. Since traveling to the sprite realm and delivering the message given to her in a dream, all she wanted to do was go back there. For a few seconds, she’d been in the presence of her pack, her family. She’d felt her mate through the bond and had fought the need to reach out to him. If she’d stayed even a second longer, Peri knew she wouldn’t have been able to leave. Instead, she flashed back to the draheim realm and wandered aimlessly while her thoughts continually jumped back to her conversation with Serapha.

When in my long past was I saved? Why?

What could have possibly been happening to cause Peri to be in need of help from another? Why couldn’t she have saved herself? Question after question filled the high fae’s mind, and she couldn’t ask the damn draheim. Serapha was nowhere to be found.

With the risk of her own thoughts potentially driving her mad, Peri returned to the cave and to the three supernaturals now in her care. Perhaps she could find a way not to screw this up. Don’t hold your breath. Pushing away thoughts of Lucian that would weaken her resolve to stay away, she turned her attention instead to Skender.

“Does anyone else know of your history?” Peri sat in the cave they’d claimed as their temporary sanctuary. Tenia was still unconscious, and Peri used her magic to keep the woman clean and nourished. But she didn’t know what else she could do for the female fae. So Peri sat against the wall on the other side of the cave and watched as Skender did the best he could to care for her. He and Torion took turns brushing her hair, washing her face with warm water from a spring nearby, and even moving her limbs. Though Peri told him none of this was necessary, the wolf seemed to need to do something for Tenia.

Upon hearing the question, Skender’s eyes grew large and darted to where Torion sat.

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