Inanna's Circle: Flight of Imagination - Omnibus by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: All Chaos Press
Published: 2016-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Warm water cascaded over Dal’s back as she scrubbed away blood, bits of brain and permanent marker in silence. Dal had expected her to scrub until his skin was red and raw but Cat was surprisingly capable of gentility. That made him feel all the more guilty over not coming out of the closet to help her sooner. He wanted to apologize again, this time, more insistently, but his mind was stuck working backward through everything, putting the pieces together.

Nessa had been McAlister’s plaything. He must have gone to her after it happened and the girl put two and two together. She figured it out and had died for it. That sharp mind and keen understanding of how dark and evil the fae could be had destroyed her. Cat had only barely escaped the same fate.

And ever since Lena’s tenth birthday, maybe before and who knew how long afterward, Lachlan kept the peace by pimping his underage daughter out to Teddy Sullivan. When tensions got high, Lachlan exploited the one vice he knew Teddy would indulge. Lena was too old for Teddy now, but Grania was just right.

His mind’s eye crafted a scene of horrors, recreating an event he’d never witnessed. He watched his family die and broke down again only to replay it over and over and over until part of him died along with them.

“I’m sorry about earlier,” he said in a quiet voice as she reached in front of him to let the water out. “I should have come sooner.”

She paused and tried to smile. He could tell it hurt. “It’s not the first time I’ve had the shit kicked out of me.”

He touched her swollen right eye and brushed warm water over it. “It will be the last.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”

“I mean it. You don’t deserve what’s happened to you any more than my family deserved what happened to them.”

Cat grabbed his hand and lowered it away from her face. “Don’t get attached to me just because I’m here. I’m an elf whore. I’m worth nothing to you or anybody.”

“I don’t believe that.” She looked down, so he lowered his head and caught her stare. “Don’t mistake me for Lachlan. Blood has been the thing that has driven loyalty for too long. This isn’t Faerie. This is Earth. This is Boston. It’s my city. Here, you earn respect, you don’t demand it just because of your parentage.” He pulled his hand away and leaned against the back of the tub. “You’ve earned more than just my respect. I owe you a debt of gratitude, one I’ll likely be unable to repay.”

She plugged the tub again and started new water. They sat in strained silence as the water rose up to his chest. Cat shut off the water and leaned back on her knees. “Forgiveness is pointless because it’s over. You and me, we can feel sorry about it for the rest of our lives, however long or short that’s going to be, and it won’t change a thing.

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