Whispers From Exile by Kilgore C. E

Author:Kilgore, C. E. [Kilgore, C. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Adult
Amazon: B00BWEF26A
Goodreads: 17661535
Publisher: Tracing The Stars
Published: 2013-03-19T07:00:00+00:00

16

The Bounty

Merik sat on the couch in jaded silence and watched the dim light of the morning filter into the room through the large windows that spanned the wall behind him. He hadn’t noticed the windows when she brought him into the apartment and it was a strange feeling to realize you were not underground as you had believed. He stood from the couch and walked over to the windowed wall, glancing out at the snow-capped, rocky mountains. He wondered how much extra she paid per month for a place with a view of the outside.

His eyes caught their own black orbs reflected in the glass, and they glared back at him with a mental reprimand for his loss of control with her. With a slow exhale, he leaned his arm on the cold glass and looked at the reflection of his bare chest and bandaged waist. Sure, Asha was an arrogant bitch, but he had gone way too far. He knew she wasn’t all she made herself out to be, either. The attitude and the shell of the Wraith she kept wrapped so tightly around her was her protection from the universe. Just like Orynn.

Orynn did it with a well-practiced smile and forced detachment. Asha did it with a sneer and haughty arrogance. They were different methods for achieving the same goal; stopping connections from forming too closely and keeping existence at a safe distance. After four hundred years, it seemed as if Asha’s method was much more effective than her younger sister’s had been.

But even Asha has chinks in her armor.

Merik’s hand ran across the bandages on his stomach. He had seen the sunlight of her true aura breaking through the shadows of her Wraith, and he had seen the unexpected compassion for that man Mich. Maybe she even had a good reason for having such a disinterested annoyance with her sister’s current predicament.

Whose side are you on?

Merik blinked at his reflection and refocused his vision on the snow that had started to fall outside. The guilt over his careless words to Asha was building and that was starting to concern him. Trexens weren’t known for handling guilt very well, and the fact that he felt guilty at all over his joking with her was troubling. With a deep shuddering breath, he remembered the barely contained destroyed look in her silver eyes as he sat there laughing at her. The memory of it hit against his carefully constructed aura like a razor, etching a line across it and threatening to reveal emotions he didn’t want to feel.

Damn Vesparians.

The sound of Asha’s bedroom door opening and her light, barefoot steps across the tile floor brought his attention back to the living room. He watched her through the reflection in the glass as she headed for the compact refrigerator. She was still wearing the same shirt and pants from yesterday, but her hair was hanging loosely around her shoulders. Reaching into the fridge, she pulled out a carton of some juice Merik didn’t recognize.

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