Birds and Prey by Lexi Johnson

Author:Lexi Johnson [Johnson, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: interracial, Paranormal, Romance;BWWM;urban, fantasy, Romance, novels
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8: Seduction of Memory

Sade never brought up what had happened their first night together, and neither did he. Instead, Haytham simply focused on teaching her the dance. He started her on the same exercises he had learned as a child, to teach Sade to be able to listen to and understand the wind.

For the next week, he took her to an exposed ridge, and had her perform the opening movements of the dance. The purpose of this exercise was for her to learn to use the steps and the words of the wind to understand what was happening around her. So, on the first day, he blindfolded her.

Sade came close to falling from the cliffside three times. Had she been a true Wind-Dancer, it would have been up to her to shift her form and fly back to him. But since she was not, and it was in both of their best interests for her to survive her training, he warned her instead when she ventured too close to the edge.

At night, they prepared their meals together, spoke of her training, and then slept curled together under Haytham’s blankets, close and chaste, like litter-mates.

For Haytham, it was a torture, having Sade so close -- having touched and tasted her once -- and to now be unable to act. But, he’d decided, better to be frustrated than to end an otherwise perfectly pleasant evening with a mortal sobbing in his arms.

After a few days, Sade learned to start a fire in the hearth, and picked up some basic cooking skills. Haytham was surprised at how well she took to the latter. So long as she wasn’t watching her hands, she chopped and sliced things with practiced ease, occasionally sniffing the soup with an expression of mild discontent, as though it were missing some essential seasoning.

It took a week for Sade to master the first steps of the dance, but after that, she proceeded surprisingly quickly. Haytham was beginning to feel some optimism about Sade’s abilities when, unexpectedly, at the start of their third week together, Marid arrived.

As always, the sight of Marid made it difficult for Haytham to breathe. He had loved the other shifter as a fledgling. Before Haytham’s wings had been bound to the Edenost Court, he’d hoped that they might become mates – or, as Haytham liked both men and women, find a female and form a triad.

Now Marid was a beautiful trap. And, while they’d shared the dance both in the air and in each other’s bedding, nothing further could come of it. He’d always been too interested in what the Edenost Court had done to save Haytham’s wings.

Marid shifted, his gold-limned plumage folding into human skin. Unlike Haytham -- who always found the change an agony due to how the Edenost Court had warped his natural magic -- Marid changed forms with liquid grace.

He stood before them both in human flesh. A touch of humor graced his full lips. “I trust I’m not interrupting, young hawk…” he said.

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