Warrior from the Shadowland by Cassandra Gannon

Author:Cassandra Gannon [Gannon, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Star Turtle Publishing
Published: 2012-07-27T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Low lies the plant to whose creation went

Sweet influence from every element

Ralph Waldo Emerson- “Woodnotes”

“If anyone asks, this so isn’t the way this went down.” Melanie pushed back a handful of blonde hair and frowned at Uriel. “Seriously. We met at –like-- a library or church group. I never arrested you. You aren’t an alien or an Elemental or whatever. And we absolutely did not sleep together twenty minutes after we met. No way.”

Uriel’s mouth curved. “Perhaps, we should also not mention the handcuffs, then.”

“Shit.” Melanie closed her eyes. The zip cords were still holding Uriel’s wrists behind his back. That meant that the state of their clothing and the sexual misconduct in the back of her squad car had all been her handiwork. She had ravished him on the way to the station.

Sullivan would toss her ass in jail for public indecency if someone reported this.

Fortunately, there were some kind of leafy plants all over the car, now, blocking the windows. Since the vines had appeared instantly and were growing right out of the street, Melanie figured that they were Uriel’s way of hiding them from passersby. His consideration touched her. It was certainly way more foresight than she’d been able to muster. She wondered if it was even worth mentioning that a car covered in jungle vegetation, stopped at a traffic light at a Mayport Beach intersection, was going to attract even more attention than two people having sex in a car would have.

How long had they even been here? Melanie vaguely recalled radioing Sullivan with some excuse on why she wasn’t back at the station yet, but damn if she remembered what is was or when she’d done it.

Uriel nuzzled the side of her neck and Melanie decided that she didn’t care. She actually felt like laughing. “I was going to blame myself for this mess, but it’s really all your fault.” She pulled away so she could meet his eyes. “What the hell did you do?”

“Phazing is a mutual process.” Uriel shifted his body, so Melanie was beneath him. “Once it begins, very few Phases have the strength to stop it and I certainly did not wish to.” He gazed at her, lovingly. “You feel it, too, correct? The connection and wholeness.”

She felt it. Oh, God, did she feel it. “Yes.” She whispered. The Phazing had been a lightning storm of passion. Melanie was kind of surprised that she’d lived through it. There were still aftershocks going through her and, beneath the passion, was a growing sense of peace. Of rightness. “Let me get the cuffs off of you.” She sat up again and reached for his wrists. “You alright? Can you feel your fingers?”

“I feel…excellent.” Uriel purred out the word. The second his hands were free, they were all over her. Scooping Melanie up so she was on his lap, he grinned down at her triumphantly. “I waited for you. I looked for you. And now that I have you…” His voice trailed off. “Thank you, Melanie.

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