Lara Adrian - 06 Ashes of Midnight by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The next morning, while Reichen stayed behind and tried not to be paranoid about danger lurking on every street corner or alleyway Claire left the house with their remaining euros and drove into town to exchange the money and pick up some food for herself and fresh clothing for both of them. Reichen had attempted to persuade her into waiting until evening when he could go with her—just in case she ran into trouble—but she brushed him off with a look and left him sitting in the big empty house by himself. He had forgotten how independent she was, and a part of him admired the fact that several decades under Roth’s thumb hadn’t stolen any of her spirit.

Still, he worried.

He knew she was safe from Roth or Dragos or any other members of the Breed so long as it was daytime and the sun would keep all of his kind locked indoors. But the protective part of him—the part of him that had yet to accept that he wasn’t still the leader of a Darkhaven, responsible for keeping his home and family safe from harm—balked at the idea of Claire walking around out there without him

looking out for her. She was too precious, too vulnerable in a world filled with hidden dangers. She was a treasure worth preserving at any cost.

And she was… not his .

Damn, but it took some effort to remember that, especially after last night. They’d spent an incredible evening together, making love in the living room overlooking the Atlantic, then again upstairs, on the four-poster bed in the palatial room that had been Claire’s when she was a young woman living in her grandmother’s house. And yet another time before daybreak this morning, after she’d gotten up to ensure that all the blinds and curtains were drawn tight to protect him from the sun.

He’d have liked to have followed her into the shower before she left to run her errands, but she’d gently chided him to pace himself, that they would have plenty of time together. But they didn’t have that luxury, and he knew it. It was easy to imagine that their reunion—this respite in an idyllic setting, without the constant reminders of the darkness they’d left behind in Germany—could go on forever.

It couldn’t.

As good as it felt to be with Claire again, they couldn’t stay in Newport together for long. Until Roth was found and eliminated, she needed to be somewhere protected and well out of his reach. She wasn’t going to like it, but so long as Roth was alive and able to get his hands on her, she needed to be placed under the guard of the Order. The sooner the better.

As for Reichen, each minute he wasn’t looking for Roth was an opportunity for the bastard to dig in deeper wherever he was and continue his presumed machinations alongside Dragos. Reichen knew he should be spending every breathing moment and exhausting every effort to hunt Roth down. Vengeance still

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