Firebird by Linda Winstead Jones

Author:Linda Winstead Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sorin Rising

Knowing that she would be lying with a man last night, Rori had taken precautions so she would not conceive a child. She’d expected Ben, not Kalum, and now she wondered...

No, nothing had changed. Kalum deserved to know the truth about her before he decided whether or not he wanted to stay. She had no intention of returning to the Mountains of the North, that vast range that was home to her people and his. If he wanted her he would have to stay here. Would he agree to live in a place so far from home that shifting wouldn’t come easily, or at all?

He had not changed last night, the third night of the full moon. At home, he would have changed as a matter of course. Here it was a chore. Did he miss it? Did he long to run as mountain cat?

As the day progressed, Rori began to accept what was obviously truth. The mate she’d thought not to exist had finally come for her. He was a Caradon, and he’d waited too long to find her. He’d run away from the mountains her people and his called home to fight a war which was not his own, instead of accepting what was meant to be and claiming her. But he did have a few fine attributes to go along with his obvious failings. He was strong and handsome, and he had waited for her as she had waited for him.

Her Anwyn mother and Caradon father had created five relatively normal shifter children, and her. What would she and Kalum create if they had children? She wasn’t sure she wanted to know.

The day dragged on. She needed sleep, but patients came to her, as always. She was distracted, sore from head to toe, and confused about many things, but she did her best.

She thought of Lucia’s particular problem, and in between visitors she pored through old books searching for a clue to a cure.

Perhaps she could find a cure for her own ailment, as well.

It was late afternoon when an agitated neighbor knocked on her door. Rori had treated Adith Farley for headaches and toothaches, but for the most part she was healthy and friendly. A good neighbor, if a bit of a busybody.

“Did you hear?” Adith wrung her hands as she walked into Rori’s cottage.

“Hear what?”

“Ben, Ben Skrewd. He’s dead.”

Rori gasped as she thought of the healthy young man she’d spoken to just yesterday. “What happened? He seemed so well last time I saw him.”

“It was not a natural death,” Adith whispered.

The hair on the back of Rori’s neck stood up and danced. She knew what was coming before Adith continued with a hoarsely whispered, “Someone killed him. His heart was ripped out of his chest.”

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