Duality (Cordelia Kelly #1): Empath Urban Fantasy by Hawk Ryanne

Author:Hawk, Ryanne [Hawk, Ryanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fused Publishing
Published: 2015-04-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

A slow warmth spread across my frigid skin, and I sank into the heat of him. Everywhere he touched me calidity followed in his wake. His hands rubbed large and small circles up and down my back, allaying the ache left behind by my tense posture.

The affection moved like honey, oozing down my nerves. One of his hands wove into my hair, and he massaged the back of my head.

“I know what you’re doing,” I mumbled into his chest. “Your seductive ministrations won’t work.”

“Hmm.” He laughed softly under his breath.

“You won’t find any weaknesses. My shields are impenetrable and locked down.”

“Okay,” he whispered close to my ear as he bent his head down and nuzzled me. “If you say so.”

He held me so tight that being surrounded by his scent and aura had me clutching him and trying to hold on to myself at the same time. His hands grasped my hair, and he pulled down. I tilted my head back so our gazes met.

The soothing color of deep amber snared my attention, and I was lost, suddenly sucked down into molasses quicksand.

“Please. Please let me go. Don’t do this,” I said as I struggled in his firm grasp. My shields were dissolving painstakingly slowly, but dissolving nonetheless.

The soul gaze hit me full force, and my knees buckled under the weight and knowledge that this man was older, wiser, and more powerful than I ever imagined.

“Please,” I whispered on a harsh and ragged breath. “My shields keep me from falling apart. I don’t want to fall apart.” I sagged from the pressure squeezing my mind, and my body went limp as he lowered us both to the floor.

For a moment his eyes cleared, and I thought he’d heard me. Or at the very least would respect my wishes. He held my face in his hands, his thumbs caressing my cheeks as he said, “I’ll catch you, Cordelia. Let me in, so you won’t be alone.”

Sandalwood and frankincense drifted on the air; the scents seemed to waft straight from Sol himself. Comforting and enticing.

“I don’t know how.”

“You have to trust me.”

“How can I trust you when I barely know you?” Even as the words left my lips, I knew them to be a lie. Sol and I were connected in ways neither of us fully understood. At least, I didn’t understand. “Why do you care, Sol?”

“Because in a different time and place, in another life,” he paused and inhaled before he blew out the breath, “our lives are tied together.”

His statement, given as fact, gave me pause. I relaxed in his arms and allowed his emotions to touch mine. To gauge his sincerity, but also because I wanted the peace he afforded me. I didn’t let my shields down, not yet, but I opened up a small hole for him to feel me too.

“How do you know, my Sol.”

He smiled at me, a broad and full smile with lots of pearly whites gleaming, and said, “Do you realize what you call me, Cordelia?”

I replayed my words in my head and gasped out loud.

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