Crystal Fire by Kathleen Morgan

Author:Kathleen Morgan [Morgan, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780505520654
Google: sZoOAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0505520656
Publisher: Leisure Books
Published: 1995-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Smothering blackness consumed him. Brace tumbled downward into an endless pit of deafening cries and clutching hands. Hands that clawed at him, tearing at his flesh until he was one huge, gaping wound. He watched as his life's blood gushed away.

He fought back, screaming out his rage and frustration, but to no avail. The blackness dragged him down as his body weakened. Brace knew the end was near.

There was no hope, nothing left but surrender. Surrenderto eternal oblivion, to the haunting vision of madnessand join his father.

Yet in that last moment before total submission, a voice called to him. Instantly Brace recognized it. Marissa, the woman he loved. The woman he'd never win. But a woman to whom he owed a debt and the fulfillment of a quest, terrible and dangerous though it was. With the last of his strength Brace fought back, seeking union with the voice that was his final link to sanity.

He awoke, gasping, drenched with sweat. Awoketo find himself in Marissa's arms.

"By the Crystal Fires, Brace Ardane!" she sobbed. "I'd thought I'd lost you for certain this time. I couldn't reach you no matter what I did. What are we to do? Ah, what are we to do?''

Brace turned into the comforting softness of her woman's body and groaned. "II don't know, femina. Gods, I don't know anything anymore! Just hold me. Hold me until the terror passes."

She bent her head and kissed his pale, clammy forehead. "For as long as you wish. Forever, if that's what it takes."

He lifted his face to hers. "I'm so sorry, Marissa. You need a strong man on this quest, and I'm rapidly falling apart. Better if I'd been the one to die, rather than Rodac. He'd have been of far more use than I."

"Hush, hush," Marissa soothed, stroking back his dark, damply matted hair. "You're all I need. You're the strongest, bravest man I've ever known. And I'm so glad I found you."

She gazed down into his beautiful, measureless eyes, saw his anguish and tormentand knew, in that piercingly sweet instant, that she was lost. The last vestiges of distrust and animosity faded. Her heart went out to him, and a woman's instinct to comfort, in the age-old ritual of mating, filled her. Marissa's head lowered, and her lips softly, tentatively brushed his.

He tensed for the briefest of moments, then, with a shuddering sigh, opened his mouth hungrily over hers. When she didn't draw away, Brace deepened the kiss, touching his tongue to her lips, coaxing them to open. When their soft fullness parted, he slid his tongue gently between them.

As he began to explore her mouth, pleasure spiraled through Marissa. Brace's hands caressed her, and when he moved to lie atop her, the hard strength of his body, pressed so intimately against hers, brought Marissa to vibrant life. She arched up to him, her hands wildly stroking the thickly muscled shoulders and taut planes of his broad, crisply furred chest. Ah, to finally touch him was heaven itself!

His hands left her to fumble with the quilt that covered the lower half of his body.

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