Warrior by Cheryl Brooks

Author:Cheryl Brooks [Brooks, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781402214400
Google: VSUz8UF1wssC
Goodreads: 2958524
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2008-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

It probably wasn’t very wise to take a pregnant witch on a rescue mission during a snowstorm. Of course, the fact that I hadn’t volunteered the information that I was expecting hadn’t been terribly brainy of me.

No doubt I should have protested against such an under-taking, but there were children to rescue, and I wasn’t ready to tell anybody about my baby at that point. Leo, however, had no such qualms, and I could hear him bickering with Rafe as I regained my senses.

It was still snowing. I could feel the flakes touching my face as they fell, first cold, then wet upon my skin.

That was about all I could feel—I was pretty numb. I was being carried—in Leo’s arms, I thought hazily. I knew this only because when I heard his voice, it was louder than Rafe’s, and, therefore, closer.

“I didn’t know she was pregnant!” Rafe hissed. “How was I to know that?”

“You never asked her how she felt, did you?” Leo said accusingly. “Never gave her the opportunity to refuse to go on this quest.”

If Rafe thought his slave was being too uppity, he apparently managed to overlook it, for they were talking man to man, not slave to owner. Rafe sounded defensive, but Leo was angry; I could hear it in his voice, though he wasn’t bothering to waste his energy by shouting.

“You didn’t know then, either, did you?” Rafe said in an effort to exonerate himself. “And how could she know? For that matter, how could anyone know so soon? You’ve only been together for less than a month!”

“She is a witch,” Leo reminded him. “When I told her that I knew, she did not seem surprised.”

“And exactly how did you figure it out?” Rafe said scathingly. “Was she glowing or what?”

“I knew it only when I saw that she was in danger,”

Leo replied. “My kind are gifted with sudden insights at times. They are rare, but certain. I had only to look at her, and I knew.”

“Well, my kind isn’t that gifted,” Rafe said irritably.

“We have to be told these things—which is what she should have done.”

Leo took several moments to form his reply. “She chose not to tell you, and I do not believe she intended to tell me.”

“And why not?” Rafe said indignantly. “If you are the father, then you should be told.”

“I am a slave,” Leo reminded his rightful owner.

“Perhaps she felt it would be best that I remain ignorant.”

I didn’t catch Rafe’s reply—though I believe it was more of a grunt than actual words. Rafe knew very well that he was the only one who could change that slave status of Leo’s, and I wanted to say so, but I found that I couldn’t get my mouth to move well enough to form the words. After a while, I gave up trying.

I could hear Rafe talking again. Leo was standing still, continuing to hold me in his arms, which under other circumstances would have felt very nice, indeed, but I was so cold.

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