Ascension by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Felicity Heaton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dark Rose Publishing
Published: 2011-04-17T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Taig held Lealandra close, trembling all over as he fought to regain composure. He pressed kisses to her wet dark hair, savouring the feel of her warm body against his, supple and small, curved perfectly into his. His woman was back where she belonged.

He sighed into her hair and closed his eyes. Her confession had floored him. Would she have told him that all those years ago if he had given her the chance? The thought that an angel like her could love a devil like him, all of him, felt like an impossible dream, something that could never happen to a demon. Perhaps his mother had truly loved his father after all, had known exactly what he was and had accepted him as a whole. His good mood began to fade as he thought about them and what Lealandra had considered earlier. He had overheard her conversation with her mother. The shift in Lealandra’s power and the way she had felt had made it clear to him that she was going to attempt to find his parents. He didn’t want that. He wanted to let them go.

A voice deep within him, in his heart, said that he did want to find them. He needed to see if they were alive and discover what had happened to them but was frightened to go to the underworld, to another place where he didn’t quite belong. He scoffed at himself for being so weak and foolish. If she wanted to find his parents, if she believed that they were alive and that they had left him against their will, then he had no choice but to go with her. It wouldn’t do him the good that she thought it would or change the way he felt about his demon side, but he couldn’t let her go somewhere so dangerous alone. It didn’t matter that she was destined to become more powerful than he was. He would keep his oath and protect her.

Taig pushed his thoughts away, to the back of his mind, aware that she would feel the darkness in him and his feelings when they were so close to each other. He didn’t want to ruin the moment. Lealandra had missed him, all of him. The man and the demon. She thought she loved what lived beneath his human skin, beneath the façade. He believed in that and that was enough for him right now. When she saw the real him, if he ever allowed her to, then he would see if that love was real and if she could truly accept him for what he was.

Because he couldn’t accept himself, no matter how much he tried. He wanted to belong in this world and to do that he had to be human, something someone could really love without fear and without regret. Lealandra could say that she loved him now but would she still love him if he ever revealed himself? He was talking about more than showing her claws and wings.

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