[Imprints 01] • Touch of Rain by Branton Teyla

Author:Branton, Teyla [Branton, Teyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Suspense, Fantasy, Contemporary romance
ISBN: 9781939203908
Goodreads: 36503300
Publisher: White Star Press
Published: 2017-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“There you two are.” Korin loomed from behind the trees, looking large in the dancing shadows cast by his lantern, a bear of a man. “We were beginning to worry.”

Jake gave his spiel about finding me, and Korin put a comforting hand on my back as if I were an old friend. “I’m glad Jake found you. You’re probably freezing. Poor thing.”

“It’s better now with Jake’s jacket.”

Not to mention the kiss, but Korin didn’t comment on that, though he didn’t seem surprised, either. I remembered Harmony’s comment about Korin liking me. His calm reaction to Jake’s and my supposed closeness didn’t seem to validate her idea. Unless I’d taken her meaning wrong.

“Let’s get something warm into you. And on you.” Korin gently propelled me in the direction of the houses, or at least what I hoped was in that direction. “It gets quite cold out here at night even in the summer. We should have fixed you up better before sending you out into the wilderness like this. We’ll change all that tonight before you go to bed.” He gave a hearty chuckle.

I craned my neck, trying to see Jake’s face, but he was behind us now. No chance of glimpsing how he’d felt about our encounter.

The party was winding down when we returned, and Korin deposited me near a fire barrel before going off to find someone to assign me a bed. Jake had his hands shoved deep into the pocket of his torn jeans and didn’t meet my gaze. He looked almost like a stranger at that moment in his old clothes, his locs askew, but when I examined his brown face it was all Jake.

“What?” he asked, finally lifting his eyes.

“What was that all about?” I had to bluff my way through the question because it was what I would have done if it hadn’t meant anything to me.

“Making it look real, that’s all.” His dark eyes skidded past mine.

“It sure felt real.”

He dragged his eyes back to me. For a moment neither of us spoke. At last he opened his mouth, but I would never know what he was going to say because at that moment Korin returned with a large woman wearing a bright red dress.

“This is Scarlet,” Korin said. “She’s in charge of housing and clothing, so if you ever need anything in that respect, see her. She’ll get you both fixed up with clothes and a bed.”

She was big and beautiful and black, and I knew her instantly from the woman in one of Tawnia’s drawings, the time she’d been trying to sketch Victoria. All doubts that my sister was sketching scenes from real life were put to rest once and for all.

Scarlet placed her warm brown arms around me. “Ah, child. I heard you got lost.” I detected a slight southern accent in her honeyed voice. She was about my height and easily six times my width, but she wore her mass with a confidence that didn’t need excusing. Her face was round, and her eyes large and expressive.

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