Wicked Lucidity by Mandy M Roth

Author:Mandy M Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Erotica, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781586087852
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: 2006-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

I stared down at the contents of the box and shook my head. When I’d seen the bed frame in a magazine I thought it would be like any other one, four little pieces. No. This one was anything but that. I’d been thinking of putting the thing together since I arrived but had yet to do it.

“Want some help?”

I jumped and spun around fast. Riston leaned on the doorframe and smiled. “I thought you were still downstairs with Amber.”

“I was,” he said, shrugging. “I think she’s going to be on the phone a while. It’s been several hours and counting. D got on to talk with her.”

I moaned. “Great, she will have heard every lame pick-up line out there when she’s done talking to him.”

“She’s actually lecturing him on treating women like queens, not objects.”

Laughing, I shook my head and glanced at the bed again. “What happened to simple bed frames?”

“Can’t you zap it together or something?” he asked, amusement running through his voice.

“If you want me to, I can. But I’ll offer you this piece of information. You’ll most likely think it’s a cop-out but I don’t have an anchor so the more I use or rely on magik the more I open myself to the darkness I carry. Trust me when I say that after a year in hell I have a hell of a lot of dark side in me. This wouldn’t cost me much but I still would rather try to do it by hand. I used a lot of power today. More than I should. But I’m talking out of my ass because you have not idea what I’m talking about. Right, forgot about having Branson erase your memory…umm, okay.” I counted slowly in my head, ready for his skepticism. It didn’t come. “Aren’t you going to say ‘likely excuse’ or something like that?”

He shifted slightly, watching me closely as he shook his head. “No. I do want to know about the anchor thing. Why don’t you have one?”

“You mean, why don’t I have him?”

He crossed his arms. “Okay, it’s a him. So, why isn’t the guy with you?”

“I don’t know. I’m not sure he’s even still alive. I mean, the last time I saw him I was six so a lot can happen between then and now.” I glanced downwards not wanting to show any emotion. “He has to be dead, right? They tell me that a true mate would have come for me by now. I highly doubt he’s my true anything. I mean, it’s ludicrous to think I was made for only one person. I’m me. Not some man’s possession.” I knew that I sounded like I was trying to convince myself because I was. The idea that my mate, the man my father told me would protect me with his life, never came for me. He didn’t care.

“Wait, your mate is your anchor?” he asked, standing straight.

I nodded as I drew in a deep breath. “I should have guessed that you’d at least have a little bit exposure to supernaturals.

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