Vendetta by Emmy Chandler

Author:Emmy Chandler [Chandler, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emerson Ink
Published: 2019-06-25T23:00:00+00:00

13

VAUGHN

I frown at Grace, trying to understand. “That doesn’t make any sense. You already are my mate.”

She took your seed, the beast insists, pacing angrily inside me. She is yours.

“No, I’m not. I can’t be. I’m so sorry, but I know you’ll find someone else. Any woman would be beyond lucky to have you.”

“You don’t want that.” I ignore the pain slicing into my heart while I study her face. Then I lean in to sniff her scent again. “I can smell the truth, Grace. Pushing me away hurts you. The thought of my hands on someone else sends a distressed scent straight from your pores. If you want me, why would you push me away?”

“Because what I want doesn’t matter.” Her voice sounds as agonized as her scent tells me she is. “The truth is that I used you. And I’m so sorry. But I had no other choice. The only way to make sure Meshach couldn’t give me to his son was to give myself to a man, and I didn’t want a stranger. I wanted you. That was selfish of me, and I’m so sorry. But…I wanted you.” The admission seems to render her helpless.

“I wanted you too.” And the truth was that she had no choice, at least about that part of it. If she’d picked another man, the beast would have killed him. “I still want you.” I reach for her, but she slides to the left against the wall. Out of reach. “I need you, Grace.”

“I know. Which only makes what I did worse. But if I stay with you, I’m going to get your entire crew killed. Including Lilli and her baby. And I can’t do that. I can’t keep you guys in that kind of danger.”

“You won’t be. Meshach doesn’t know you’re with us.”

“But he’ll figure it out. If any of his men saw the Dinghy re-dock on Miscellany, they’ll have seen us come on board. And even if no one saw, eventually he’s going to figure out that the woman you gave my sheath to was a decoy. He’ll assume I snuck on board the Dinghy when ‘you’—who was really Captain Sotelo—did.”

“He’s no threat to us,” I insist.

“Not one on one. I’ve seen you fight. But you won’t get a chance to fight him if he blows up this entire ship.”

“We’ll figure something out.” I reach for her again, and this time she darts to the right and takes off for the hatch in the ceiling.

Adrenaline surges through my blood stream, and I lunge after her, while the beast howls with excitement inside me. He’s thrilled that she’s running from me, because that gives me a chance to catch her. To impress her with my speed and strength.

That isn’t how seduction works in human circles, but I can’t let her go. I can’t lose her. So I lurch forward and grab her around the waist, then I swing her away from the stairs. “Grace,” I whisper into her ear. “Do not run from me.

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