Touch of Lightning by Carin Rafferty

Author:Carin Rafferty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelleBooks Inc.
Published: 2018-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Evil Fled

AS SEBASTIAN STROKED Sarah’s silken back, he decided he’d never felt so exhausted. It had taken all his physical and mental strength to make love to her rather than succumb to the mindless lust the talisman had instilled in him. He’d thought that by fighting the lust, he’d thwart the talisman’s plans and break its hold over them. He was wrong.

As the lightning wreath continued to whirl around them, he closed his eyes in angry defeat, shutting out the frustrating sight. Dammit! The talisman must have another scheme in mind. He just prayed he’d have enough time to gather his wits before the plan was sprung on them.

He no more than completed the thought when Sarah suddenly wrenched herself out of his arms. His eyes flew open, and he saw her climb to her feet beside him. As his gaze swept up her body, his heart skipped a fearful beat. She cradled her triangle in her right hand, and it emitted the same white-hot light his triangle had given off in the repository.

Cautiously, he sat up and raised his gaze to her face. His jaw dropped in shock. Her features had taken on a subtle sharpness that made her look cruel, inhuman. The image was fostered by her golden eyes, which glittered with malevolent hatred.

His lovemaking hadn’t thwarted the talisman after all. Sarah was def­initely under its spell.

“What’s wrong, Sarah?” he asked, purposely keeping his tone light and ignoring the impulse to stand. He sensed that if he moved, she’d consider it an act of aggression.

“You know what’s wrong, wicáhmunga,” she drawled.

“Yes, but I’m not sure you do,” he responded, barely able to keep from shivering at the tone of her voice. It vibrated with the same malevolence reflected in her eyes, making her sound positively demonic. “The talisman is exercising its power over you, but you can still turn away from its evil, Sarah. If you couldn’t, it wouldn’t keep us trapped in here.”

“There is only one evil I need to turn away from, and that is you,” she responded vehemently.

At her words, the air filled with a peculiar hissing sound that ema­nated from the wreath’s walls. As Sebastian warily eyed them, he couldn’t refrain from shuddering. The lightning bolts no longer whirled, but moved in a slow, sinuous snakelike manner. The hissing came from the lightning tips, which had taken on the shape of eyeless snake heads. The talisman couldn’t have come up with a better way to scare the hell out of him and that assured him that his premise was true. She could still turn away from its evil, or it wouldn’t need to play on his fears.

He returned his attention to Sarah. “I’d like to say that you’re wrong about me, but I can’t. Everyone has the capacity for evil, and the talisman has a hold on me. As much as I hate to admit it, I’m vulnerable to its manipulations, but I’m fighting against its evil, Sarah. That’s why I made love to you instead of taking you like a brute as the talisman intended.

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