Burn by Belinda McBride

Author:Belinda McBride [McBride, Belinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
Published: 2015-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Dear God, why had she said that? Both men were looking at her as though she’d gone loopy. And really, what proof did she have? The phantom wings could have been her imagination. She had been keeping unusual hours the past month and was fatigued to the bone.

When the two men exchanged glances, she wanted to cringe in embarrassment.

“Rion, would you do me a favor? Would you start some water boiling? And bring my herb case?” Rex asked.

She watched the tall man rise with unearthly ease. He wasn’t right either. They were both too…other. They were something she’d never before encountered, and in her lifetime, Noemi had encountered much.

They didn’t speak again. Rion simply moved quickly around the kitchen, gathering cups and putting them on a tray, along with a ceramic teapot. When he returned, there was a selection of tea along with the hot water. She nearly stifled a laugh as the redhead gravely offered her green tea, or oolong.

Rex dug into his herb box and pulled out a muslin bag, measuring various herbs into the little bag, and set it in his cup to steep. He looked calm but his hands were slightly unsteady.

“Why don’t you tell us more about this…demon, and why you are following it?”

Noemi picked up the heavy mug and cradled it, letting the heat of the tea warm her hands. She hated being cold, even just a little. It was a by-product of growing up in a land dominated by ice and wind.

“My foster-mother called it Kelet. That’s what the Inuit call a demon-type creature. She had defeated it years before, when she’d found it stalking me. Kelet found her alone one day. She’d given me her most powerful medicine, and had no defense against the creature. I found her in the snow, bright-red blood all around her body. She lived long enough to tell me that the Kelet had defeated her.”

Noemi gripped the amulet, feeling the warm flow of magic in her hands. She hadn’t been tired, nor had she imagined those wings. When she’d seen the otherworldly features of Rex, she’d placed the amulet on his bare skin. It hadn’t injured him, but it had stripped his glamour. She could barely look at him now without recalling that shocking beauty.

“This Kelet—demon—had lost its original body and developed the ability to travel from person to person. It had taken the body of a trusted friend when it attacked her. It came for me then, but I had Ahnah’s magic to keep me safe. It fled, and I’ve pursued it since.”

“And you followed it here.” Rex winced as he drank. His hands trembled.

“Rex, you can drop your illusion. It’s taking too much energy.”

He apparently didn’t trust her, as nothing changed in his appearance. So she continued, “Anyhow, yes, about three years ago I tracked it to these mountains. The reservation had an opening for a doctor. I applied and got the position. The reservation is a place of power. In the past three years,

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