Bought to Break: The Dark Brothers Book 2 by Kyra Alessy

Author:Kyra Alessy [Alessy, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Realms Press
Published: 2021-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Lana

Kane. That surprised her. She hadn’t really thought about how the Brothers had come to be in the same unit. She’d assumed almost abstractly that there was some sort of system to choose – straws, perhaps. She’d also got the impression that Kane had been a Brother for longer than Viktor and Sorin, as he was second in command only to Greygor.

Lana kept Sorin’s hands clasped in her own. She didn’t feel pity, never that, but she wished she could take the pain she saw in his eyes away and replace it with something better. ‘But didn’t Kane already have a unit?’

Moments ago, she had been afraid she’d pried too much. His countenance had taken on a darkness that she had been sure meant he was going to hurt her, but he hadn’t. Instead he had answered her questions as if confessing his past to her would lighten his burdens. Perhaps they would.

‘He had the beginnings of one. He and Viktor were waiting for their third.’

Sorin’s hands began to caress hers, fingers sliding to her wrists and dancing over the sensitive skin of her palms. Lana felt her body responding to his touch almost immediately. Her clothes felt too heavy against her and she could feel her nipples hardening through her tunic.

‘Who was first? Who found the second?’ She asked the questions quickly, as he had a tendency to rob her of her faculties. She already sounded breathless even to her own ears, and focusing on his words was becoming difficult.

‘Kane found Viktor.’

‘After his family was killed,’ she murmured, talking more to herself than to Sorin, but he looked surprised.

‘He told you about it?’

Lana hoped she hadn’t spoken out of turn. ‘Yes. He said they were killed in a fire.’

‘That’s all he said?’

‘He told me that his wife and children died in a fire. He said he killed the men responsible and then he joined the Dark Brothers.’

Sorin’s hands had stilled when she’d mentioned Viktor’s past. Now he pulled them gently from hers.

‘I think it’s time you knew the rest. Do you want me to tell you?’

Lana hesitated, then nodded. She knew it wasn’t Sorin’s story, but she didn’t think Viktor was likely to tell her more.

‘Viktor and his wife married when they were quite young, as they ofttimes do in the remote villages of the north. His wife, Greta, was dissatisfied with her lot. She had married a farmer with few prospects, had two children, but she was still very much a beauty, as Viktor tells it. She was not faithful to her husband and she had a particular weakness for sell-swords. Viktor says he didn’t know, but he must have suspected.’

Sorin shrugged. ‘Anyway, one night a party of them rode into their village led by a man who was … different; powerful and refined. She was drawn to him and ended up in his bed. When it came time for them to leave and Greta found she would not be going with them as he had promised her, she was enraged.

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