Light Beyond the Darkness by Tami Lund

Author:Tami Lund [Lund, Tami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

He watched them from the cover of the forest of trees located a few hundred yards north of the beach house. The swath of trees ran from the edge of the cliff to the road leading from the human world into the coterie, and it offered a surprisingly close hiding place for a lightbearer who preferred to stay within the safety of the coterie, but hidden from the rest of his kind.

Miguel Santiago had been there when the Chosen One died. When that shifter-lover, Cecilia Druthers, had stabbed him with her sword. How the fuck had she managed to conjure a sword, anyway?

The wound hadn’t killed him, at least not right away. No, it was a shifter, the female who was living with that quirky healer, Dane Metaldyne, who killed Miguel’s leader, his idol, his savior.

Miguel had a gambling problem. All his life, he had always been willing to bet on any damn thing. The betting always involved currency, and more often than not, he usually lost. But that didn’t stop him from continuing to try, from talking the tavern owner into sporting him a hefty loan, so he could bet on the underdog in the stable master’s horse race. He’d lost, of course, and eventually, the tavern owner demanded he make good on the loan.

That, as far as he was concerned, was the beginning of all his troubles. That was when Carley’s father had approached him about mating with his daughter. They had met through the Chosen One’s meetings, which Miguel had initially gone to simply out of curiosity. By the third meeting, he’d been hooked. The Chosen One was like a god; his beliefs, his plans, were scripture. He was brilliant.

Carley, according to her father, wasn’t falling into the fold as readily as her parents would have liked. Mating her to someone who was a devout believer struck them as a good idea. Somehow, he knew about Miguel’s debt, too, and sweetened the pot by offering to pay it for him. A fresh start. The tavern owner had begun to make vague threats to Miguel’s person, so he was starting to feel desperate.

Miguel knew her by sight, although he’d never actually spoken to her before. He didn’t really have interest in women, other than for the necessary physical release on occasion. Unfortunately for him, that apparently came across in his demeanor, so he didn’t have much luck at all with the female population. The idea of taking a mate, one he could mold to do whatever he wanted, was appealing. So too was the idea of being debt free, at least until the next race or boxing match or betting opportunity of any kind.

Unfortunately, the reality had been different from his fantasy. Carley had been deathly afraid of him, that first night, after the mating ceremony. He’d taken her innocence anyway, because hell, that’s what a guy deserved when he took a mate. It hadn’t been particularly thrilling, but he’d gotten his rocks off. He kept trying,

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