The Outcast by Calle J. Brookes

Author:Calle J. Brookes [Calle J. Brookes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Demons, Fantasy Romance, Love Story, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Science Fiction, Shifters, Vampires, Werewolf, Werewolves
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Amazon: B00LQMNZYO
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Goodreads: 22716916
Publisher: Lost River Lit
Published: 2014-07-09T14:00:00+00:00

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Lana didn’t know what to think. He’d given her a few minutes to get showered and dressed. She’d found a set of clothing in the small bathroom, and the vestis and pardus had fit almost perfectly. She’d had to roll them up at the ankles, but that hadn’t surprised her. She knew she was short, compared to the rest of her Kind.

She brushed her hair quickly, and braided the unruly curls into two braids. A small pair of white sneakers, the kind humans favored, also waited, along with a pair of socks. She was grateful for the feel of new shoes—shoes without holes—around her feet. She’d lost sensation in a small bit of her left foot last winter from frostbite.

He waited for her. Her Rajni. He was alive, and he didn’t despise her.

She couldn’t wrap her thoughts around that.

He smiled when she came back into her small room. “You ready?”

“I think so.”

“Here.” He held out a bundle, and she recognized it as the hasha he’d worn around his waist. “I noticed you wear no color.”

“Why do you have this black here?”

“My father declared when I left his rule that I was not fit to wear the color of Adrastos, that I was cast out. So… the black signifies that dishonor.”

“Yet you sound proud of that.”

“I am, greatly so. My father is not one with whom I am glad to be tied.”

“But your sister doesn’t have this black band.”

“No, she wears turquoise in honor of my older brother’s branch. Our father forgot to disown him when he left one hundred years before I did. Aodhan’s tribe is far different from my father’s. And I think that Aodhan’s colors have darkened a bit since then. We shall see today. My father joins us soon. It should be interesting—he’s very demon prejudiced.”

“But isn’t your sister mated to—“

“A demon prince, of all things. Yeah, I know. It’s going to prove interesting, to say the least.” He grinned and Lana actually laughed. When was the last time she’d laughed?

She couldn’t remember.

“Where will my people live?”

“I don’t know yet. I’m not sure where my own will be, either. I don’t like the idea of joining a city of 200,000. I have fifteen hundred people in my tribe, and none of us are completely civilized.”

“How many children?”

“Two hundred and eight. We are mostly unmated warriors, though. We have a small number of children.”

“I have one hundred seventy eight children.”

“So together we have close to five hundred children. Maybe there is a small village area nearby where our people can grow together?”

“I will need to speak with my people. I do not know how they will feel about joining with another tribe. So many do not trust easily, especially trusting men.”

“I understand. Lana… you need to know, it is against the goddess’s laws to keep our females as concubines the way your brother did. What happened to them was abhorrent in the goddess’s eyes, too. You need to make it known to your people that he will feel the wrath for what he has done.

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