The Unwanted (A Novella of the FBI Psychics) by Walker Shiloh

Author:Walker, Shiloh [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

Once they were inside their room, he carried her into the bedroom she’d chosen and laid her on the bed. Taking a minute to go dump the bags on the couch, he went back into the bedroom and stopped dead in the door.

She’d already curled up into a tight, small ball in the middle of the bed, arms wrapped around her knees, like she was trying to hide. His heart twisted and he dragged a hand down his face, tried to think past the misery inside him.

A soft moan escaped her, low and raw, like it had come from her very soul. And although the very last thing he needed to do was touch her—for both of their sakes—he couldn’t stay away. He stripped off the jacket he’d pulled on to cover his weapon and tossed it on the foot of the bed. Sitting on the side of the mattress, he rested a hand on her hip and used the other to free the side holster he wore. The moment he touched her, some of the tension gripping her eased. Once he’d laid the weapon down, he stretched out on the bed but as he rolled to curve his body around her, Destin moved. She came at him like a desperate, drowning woman, one arm wrapping around his waist, clinging to him like he was the only thing in the world that could save her.

But he’d been the one to walk away from her.

His heart broke a little more.

He didn’t need to ask, didn’t need to think about it to know she still suffered like this on a regular basis.

The agents who hadn’t known Destin had seen a shallow woman. One who loved pretty clothes, pretty jewelry and loved to tease and laugh, one who used her gift in an almost nonchalant fashion…careless with it. A woman who had a gift that should have been a terrible burden…and it was. She didn’t let them see the burden she carried, though. She pretended like the weight was nothing. Like her troubles were nothing.

They all believed it.

They’d never seen the woman she truly was.

But Caleb had seen beneath that bright and laughing exterior she wore as a shield, hiding the brittle, broken warrior she truly was.

Everything she saw now stayed with her….stayed with her, and tormented her. Ghosts of the present, ghosts of the past, they tangled inside her as she tried to sleep and threatened to drive her mad.

But Destin had never been able to see the truth that Caleb had seen so long ago.

Some of the nightmares weren’t from other people.

There had been a time when Destin had been the victim.

And right now, that was the devil she fought in her dreams.

He pressed his lips to hers. “I’d kill him for you if I could, baby.”

She sobbed quietly.

But other than that, she made no sound.

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