[Southern Arcana 2.0] Crossroads by Moira Rogers

Author:Moira Rogers [Rogers, Moira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
ISBN: 9781605049250
Amazon: 1605049255
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2010-11-02T06:00:00+00:00

Crossroads

Luciano sounded exhausted. Resigned. “Go, Wynne. We can’t stop it now.” The air around Wynne shimmered, and then she was gone with as little fanfare as she’d arrived. Alec exhaled and dropped back into his chair, but Derek could still hear Luciano’s words echoing in his head.

He turned to Nick and fought to stay calm. “What can’t we stop now?” She shivered and avoided his eyes. “I just challenged Enrica.” The words had only one possible meaning, and it terrified him. “To what? Pistols at twenty paces?

Fists? Claws?”

“The Alpha won’t acknowledge a challenge on your behalf.” Luciano shook his head. “Presiding over it would be a conflict of interest, and he wouldn’t let anyone else do it. He’ll limit you to mediation.”

“Then I’ll talk to her,” Nick whispered. “For now.”

Derek didn’t realize Alec had moved until the door that led upstairs smashed open. Alec stormed up the steps with a snarl, leaving behind a tangible aura of frustration. In the years Derek had known Alec, he’d never seemed anything but perfectly in control. Cool, confident and able to handle anything life threw at him.

Nick laid down the gun. “Alec isn’t going to be rational until he deals with feeling like what happened to Kat and Andrew is all his fault. We should make sure he doesn’t… He could do something stupid.”

“Make sure he doesn’t what? Recover?” The only thing scarier than out-of-control Alec was the thought of perfectly in-control Alec who still wanted to kill people.

“It’s not that simple. The farther out of his head he is, the less likely he’ll be to care if people get in his way.”

“Jesus.” Derek sank back into his chair and glanced at Luciano. “You’re awful quiet.”

“Yeah, I guess I am.” He’d gone pale, and dark rings stood out under his eyes. “You don’t understand.

If the mediation doesn’t work, the Alpha will have no choice but to recognize the challenge. These things escalate until there’s a resolution.”

It seemed like they were already a long way past a resolution, but that just made being a virtual hostage to that resolution all the more terrifying. Derek glanced at Nick and raised both eyebrows. “Talk it out with me, Nick. Help me understand. I’m not a political mastermind, but I’m not stupid. Maybe I can help.”

“Okay.” She leaned one hip against the table. “I issued the challenge because now Enrica will come here. If I can get her here, I can give her what she wants—a clear path to having her family succeed mine.”

“By stepping down or abdicating or whatever? Is your father going to let you do that?” She lifted her chin in a stubborn gesture he was coming to recognize. “My father doesn’t get to decide what I do.”

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