Unforgivable Lover by Rosalie Redd

Author:Rosalie Redd [Redd, Rosalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

G aetan wrapped his arms around Nicole, tugging her close. She trembled against him, her soft skin making contact with his fingers, the pleasant sensation teasing him. The water in the basin stilled, the brutal image of Mitan’s murder erased from the vision. Too bad he couldn’t wipe away the vision from Nicole’s mind. “Sh…sh…it’s over now.”

She drew her hand to her mouth, a soft hitch easing from her throat. Blood dribbled from a gash on her index finger. “Mitan didn’t deserve to die.”

“No, he didn’t.” Gaetan trailed his fingers along her arm until he reached her hand. He took her palm in his. “Let me tend to your wound.”

She blinked, her gaze flicking to their clasped hands. “That place didn’t look familiar. It wasn’t Earth. Do you think it was Lemuria? Was it real?”

He drew a small cloth from his pocket, dipped the end in the water, and carefully wiped away the blood from her cut. “You have a small scrape. With your Dren heritage I suspect you’ll heal in no time, and yes, I think the images were real. I suspect we saw a recording of some sort, and it appears Mitan discovered Earth first. I wonder if Alora knows about this or that Zedron murdered him.”

“Can you contact her?” With a gentleness he was fast becoming used to, Nicole grazed her fingers over his brow, stopping for a moment to toy with the shock of gray. Her touch sent a rush of blood south. His inner beast growled.

“You don’t contact the gods. They contact you.” He turned her hand over, palm up, and brushed his fingers against hers, encouraging her to open for him.

She complied on a soft inhale.

He stroked her palm with his forefinger, tracing the outline of the letter ‘M.’ “At least we have an answer to this mystery. You are a descendant of Mitan, one of his characters.”

She blinked, but didn’t draw away from his touch. “How is that possible? I’m human.”

He pondered her question, letting the implications sink in. “I’m not sure, but what would happen to his characters when he died? Especially if no one knew he’d placed them here?”

“Would they die, too?” She pulled her full, plump lower lip between her teeth, gnawing on the delicate flesh.

The urge to kiss her rippled through him, sending another rush of blood to his already engorged shaft. Surreptitiously, he adjusted his stance and returned his attention to her eyes.

The dark pupils dilated, and she drew away, her fingers skating over his marking. “Or maybe they lived…and bred with the humans.”

He let her go, but a twinge tightened his chest. “That’s possible and would explain the mark on your hand.”

She strode to the desk, and he couldn’t help but notice how her hips swung from side to side, enticing him. Brows scrunched together, she studied the open pages of an old tome. “You mentioned earlier that you found a passage about ‘free will.’ What did you mean?”

“From what I could gather, it means we have the ability to choose sides in this war.

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