Alec: #11 (Luna Lodge: Hunters of Atlas) by Madison Stevens

Author:Madison Stevens [Stevens, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Madison Stevens
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Hope stretched out on the bed, her body sore from the previous night’s activities. A smile crept onto her face as she buried herself farther into the covers. Still nude, she relished the feel of everything at that moment. She had never felt so alive.

There was nothing she could say other than it had been a great night and not at all what she had been expecting. In fact, she wasn’t really sure what she had been expecting. Alec was a wild card. With most men, she could see ten steps in front of where they were headed in their little games, but with him, it wasn’t just some game he was playing. Alec was exactly as he came off.

An honest man.

Hope didn’t even know what to think about all that. He was the sort of man who cooked dinner and shared real emotions like people in the movies. It all seemed too far out there. If he was that sort of man, then she certainly needed to be that sort of woman. They were from such different worlds, both of them hardened by life and yet he had somehow turned out well-adjusted rather than embittered like her.

A loud knock came at the door. Hope sat up quickly in the bed, her stomach knotting. Maybe something had happened to him. Without a thought, she tossed on a t-shirt and the pants from the previous night, then wrapped the blanket around her body and raced to the front door. Once there she tossed aside the lock and pulled open the heavy door.

On the other side, she was surprised to find Anassa flanked brown-robed brothers.

The woman stepped forward, the men close behind. A thin bony hand waved back at them. “Wait here.”

The two men stopped in their tracks and went back to their posts beside the door.

“I’m sorry.” Hope fumbled with words as the woman stepped into her private living space.

In all Hope’s time at the compound, she’d never even seen Anassa in the Vestal quarters.

“Did we have a—” Hope began. The words dropped from her mouth as Anassa turned her cloaked hood toward her. This time Hope was certain two sharp red eyes beamed back at her.

“You haven’t gotten the stone,” Anassa rasped. It might have been intended as a question, but came out more as an accusation.

“I haven’t really had the opportunity—”

“I see you’ve fully bonded.”

Hope’s mouth snapped shut. Things were always a little strange when it came to Anassa, but this line of questioning went over the line. How could Hope even respond to that?

“Now that you’ve gained his trust,” Anassa continued, “it is imperative you find out where the stone is. Time is short.” Her voice raised an octave or two as she spoke, the desperation seeping out of every word.

Hope took a step back from the woman. Everything about this felt wrong. How could she repay Alec’s honesty by taking advantage of him? If she wanted to have any sort of future with him, she couldn’t lie to him.

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