Treasured by a Tiger (Eternal Mates 14) by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Felicity Heaton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

It wasn’t possible.

A surge of fear had Lyra wanting to take a step backwards, away from Grey, but she planted her feet to the black dirt and refused to obey it. She had no reason to fear him. Didn’t she?

It hit her hard that the male standing before her was much more than she had expected.

Much more than she had believed.

“You said you had a family… a pride… that you’re a tiger… were you lying?” She couldn’t bear the thought that he might have been.

Was he just like the other hellcat male, the one who had tricked her and sold her into slavery?

Had he been out to deceive her?

“No,” Grey bit out, his blue eyes holding hers, an edge to them that pleaded her to believe him and not hate him.

“But hellcats are solitary.”

He shook his head. “I’m not a hellcat, Lyra… I’m a tiger.”

He was lying.

Now that she had seen his nails turn black, and the fires of her kind raging in his eyes, she could feel it in him.

He was a hellcat.

He stepped towards her. “I’m a tiger… but in my bloodline, there was a cross-breeding. One of my ancestors wanted to make my family stronger, so they mated with a hellcat.”

Gods.

She had foolishly hoped he had been about to tell her that she had gone crazy, that everything that had happened had gotten to her and she had been imagining it.

He wasn’t pure hellcat, but he had the blood of one in his veins.

“I don’t understand it,” he muttered to his hands as he lowered them in front of him. His silvery eyebrows furrowed and she felt a glimmer of his pain and confusion, and fear. So much fear. “I don’t want to feel this way. I… I can’t be around you. I’m sorry, Lyra.”

He turned away from her.

Lyra stopped him with a handful of words straight from her heart.

“I need you.”

She wasn’t sure whether she meant she needed him to protect her from the fallen angel, or needed him physically, emotionally. It just came out, a blurted confession that only seemed to pain him.

He growled and looked back at her, his eyes vivid blue, glowing brightly in the low light, and his voice hoarse and low. “Don’t say things like that. I can’t…”

“I’m sorry.” She risked a step towards him, the need to comfort him overwhelming her, seizing her so fiercely she couldn’t stop herself from moving closer to him, even when part of her was aware she would only cause him more pain by doing so. “I didn’t mean to push you.”

Because he was doing his best to resist the instincts he didn’t understand.

It touched her, deeper than he would ever know.

It told her how much he cared about her and how fiercely he wanted to protect her.

Because of his tiger blood, the compulsions and needs he felt were weaker, only a fraction of what he would have felt around her if he had been a full-blooded hellcat, but they were still powerful.

They were taking their toll on him.

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