Undying Destiny by Jessica Lee

Author:Jessica Lee [Lee, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, Demons & Devils, Series, Romance, romance series, Undying Destiny, Jessica Lee, The Enclave series
Amazon: B00CK55RJ2
Publisher: Entangled: Edge
Published: 2013-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Oh God, make it shut up!” Emily lifted her head up from the pillow, groping on her nightstand for the cell phone that wouldn’t stop its incessant ringing. “Hello.” She didn’t attempt to hide her less-than-enthusiastic tone.

“Emily? I was about to come over there. I’ve been calling for almost an hour. Are you okay?”

“Shawna?” She rubbed her eyes and tried to bring the clock into focus. Five in the evening. Good. The sleeping pill she’d taken had done its trick. She’d slept nine hours straight without any dreams about Kenric.

“Yeah, it’s me. I was worried about you. After your break last night, you barely spoke to anyone, and you left without a word. Did I do something to make you angry?”

“No. No, it has nothing to do with you.”

“It was that phone call, wasn’t it? You said there was an emergency. Are you okay?”

“I’m okay. You know what they say, this too shall pass,” Emily said, massaging her chest where a dull ache throbbed beneath her breastbone.

“It’s a man, isn’t it? Only one thing would have a woman like this: a man.”

“No. God, no. It’s not a man.” Emily bit her lip and slung her legs over the side of the bed. It really wasn’t. She wasn’t lying. He certainly had all the right body parts. However, technically, he wasn’t a human male.

“I think someone doth protest too much.”

She could almost see Shawna’s ear-to-ear grin and her eyebrows dancing on her forehead in excitement.

“Let it go, Shawna. There’s no man.”

“All right, all right. Call me when you’re ready to talk. And when you’re ready for me to meet him. Can’t wait. Bye, now.”

“Shawna… Arghh!” That woman defined tenacious.

After brushing her teeth and a quick shower, she felt more awake. The hot water had done nothing for the dull pain in her chest, though. It had started right after her blowup at Kenric and hadn’t left her alone since, except for the few hours she’d managed to sleep. Damn…she missed him. It had been less than twenty-four hours, but the sting of his absence went soul-deep. And as much as it chapped her rear to acknowledge the fact, she’d liked having him around. His presence filled a room even in the silence. Although that attribute could be overwhelming at times, Emily had quickly grown to take comfort in its intensity. He drew her like oxygen to a flame. But it was that same heat, the inferno brewing just beneath the surface, that scared the hell out of her, because she didn’t want to get burned.

Dressed in her favorite blue jeans and a loose T-shirt, she headed toward the kitchen, when a sudden pounding on the front door froze her in her tracks. She ran to her bedroom, grabbed the baseball bat she kept beside her bed, and crept in the direction of the living room.

Kenric’s premonition of danger looped like a scratched record in her head. Her pulse thumped wildly in her ears.

Another pound on the door vibrated through her. She swallowed hard and raised the bat to her shoulder.

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