Felicity Heaton - 12 Turned by a Tiger by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Felicity Heaton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Talon was acting strange.

After they had fixed her front door, and the others had left, he had kept his distance from her. He looked troubled as he stared at the TV, and he hadn’t heard a word she had said when she had asked if he was hungry.

Now she stood at the end of the couch, watching him as his coffee went cold on the wooden table, waiting for him to notice her.

Something was troubling him.

“Talon?” She inched closer.

His amber eyes snapped up to her, focused and he blinked. “Sorry. You say something?”

Was he just anxious to get going on the plan? Nervous that he was going to play bait for Archangel?

It scared the hell out of her.

Sherry sat on the arm of the couch, planted her feet on the cushion, and rested her chin on her upturned palm. “Are you worried?”

He shook his head, but that troubled edge to his eyes remained. “Archangel can’t hold me again. I won’t let it happen.”

“I won’t either,” she said, and his eyes widened a little, a ripple of warmth and light chasing through them before the darkness closed back in. “During the meeting… you mentioned you had a brother.”

He nodded, sighed and leaned back into the couch, tipping his chin up and his face towards the ceiling. Obviously he had a brother that exasperated him, was trouble enough that just thinking about him had Talon’s mood degenerating. Or was it because he had failed to keep Jayna safe?

“Is he going to be pissed at you?” She studied his face, trying to discern from it how he felt about his brother.

His eyes told her everything as they slid towards her, overflowing with weariness and the smallest hint of fear.

“Probably,” he muttered, and then added, “Definitely.”

Another long sigh escaped him, shifting his bare chest, tempting her eyes to fall there.

Talon closed his eyes.

“My older brother Byron is my pride’s alpha. I’m his second in command, not a very enviable job when it involves dealing with him. He can be… moody. Normally, a small group of females are sent together with a couple of our males, warriors, to visit another pride and return with a bride. This time, Byron tasked me with meeting Jayna and bringing her to the village.” He grimaced, and Sherry had the feeling he was imagining how upset his brother was going to be when he returned home and told him that Jayna was gone. Her heart whispered that his reluctance to go home was about more than his brother’s anger though.

It was because he had failed, and he didn’t want his brother to know about it, or the pride.

She could understand why. He was second in command of an entire tiger pride, an important position by the sounds of it. When he returned and revealed what had happened, his ability to hold that position would come into question, along with his abilities as a warrior.

How could he be expected to protect his pride if he couldn’t protect a single female?

“Good job I can’t go back yet, huh? Not with Archangel still looking for me.

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