Fangs with a Heart by Tempeste O'Riley

Author:Tempeste O'Riley [O'Riley, Tempeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-501-9
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

SASHA SAT at his desk, staring at a small stack of papers, though he didn’t see any of the words he was certain were written on them. He couldn’t focus on anything other than Trace. Finally touching his fated heart had been… he couldn’t come up with any words that could encompass how he’d felt, or how terrified he’d been shortly after when Trace panicked. But the biggest issue right then was Trace had gone back to his home on the tribe lands. Sasha knew it was stupid to let that bug him so much. It did, though. Especially with the ones who attacked him still out there somewhere.

Trace had protection, so he was safe. Unfortunately that didn’t help either. He wanted his heart with him!

“Sir?”

The sound of Jalin’s voice broke Sasha’s spiraling thoughts apart enough for him to look up. “Yes?”

“You have a visitor.”

Sasha blinked a few times before he looked over to the window. The sky was a deep inky black, so he knew it was extremely late to any other race. It had to be one of his own, then. “Who wishes an audience?”

Jalin stood perfectly still, his hands behind his back, his arms folded formally. Odd. “High Councilman Greer, my liege.”

“I know I’ve told you to call me si— Wait, what?”

“High Councilman Duncan Greer,” Jalin repeated carefully, adding in the lynx’s first name, “is here to see you. He has only two of his guards with him, as well as Kelley, Alpha Keith’s friend and guard. He wishes a private audience with you.”

It took a moment for everything Jalin said to make sense, and then for his brain to catch up enough for Sasha to speak. Well, enough sense to form a reply, as it didn’t actually make any sense that the head of the lynx shifter council would be at his door. “The lynx council has never directly contacted me before. Even sending Trace as their representative was to Keith, not to me.” Sasha thought for a moment but couldn’t think of a reason unless it had to do with their doctor being there to work with Niko on Sean and his shifting. They hadn’t ever formally contacted his coven, even when Alpha Orin and Nadia, Sasha’s sister, were killed. “Did he say why?”

“That he was here in an adoptive parental capacity. That’s all he would say. I didn’t understand, but I came immediately upon notification of his arrival.”

Adoptive parental capacity? “I have no idea what that means.”

“Nor do I, sir, but that was all he would tell me. I did not think it wise to leave him outside, considering, so I have him in one of the receiving rooms downstairs. Summer is with him, as are a few of his men.”

“Timing could be better.” Sasha rubbed his hands over his face and sighed. “Have him escorted up here to my sitting room, as I have no interest in having anything said be possibly overheard. Nor do I want a strange set of lynx visible for any longer than needed right now.

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