Marked by an Assassin (Eternal Mates 8) by Heaton Felicity

Author:Heaton, Felicity [Heaton, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Harbin had been tracking Aya for the past two nights, watching her from a distance and studying her every move. She followed a routine, leaving late in the evening and heading towards the Underground station close to her small apartment in what he could only describe as one of the more unsavoury regions of London.

That was being kind.

He had visited places in Hell that were safer and cleaner.

The first night he had hunted her down, locating her in what he now knew was her favourite restaurant in the neighbourhood, he had wondered what the fuck had made her move into such a rough area.

It hadn’t taken him a long time spent perching on the corner of the roof of a building and watching the locals moving around the streets below to realise why she had come to this place.

Fae and other species lived here.

Her instincts as a snow leopard were driving her to find others similar to her in an effort to feel as if she was part of a pride. That instinct rode him sometimes too, when he was away from the guild for weeks on end, driving him to return to the place his primal side had decided was home now and the people it viewed as his new pride.

He sighed and tracked her as she walked, huddled into her thick grey coat, braced against the cold.

Odd that she felt it so keenly having been raised in the mountains.

He canted his head and hunkered down, balancing on his toes and resting his elbows on his knees. Life in the mortal cities had made her soft. It had changed her.

Life in Hell had changed him too, but where she had softened, he had hardened. He could walk naked in the snow and not feel the cold. He could walk across fire and not feel the burn. He had mastered his body, had gained complete control over his emotions and decided what he felt.

But she had broken that hold, and now he found himself coming to this same rooftop every night to watch her carrying out her life, running through her routine.

First a stop on the steps of her red brick apartment building to button her coat over a heavy wool jumper, the colour of which changed each night.

Tonight, it had looked like blood to him.

Then she moved off, heading towards the central hub of the area she called home, stopping at her favourite restaurant.

He hadn’t realised she was partial to Italian food.

But he did remember now that she was fond of food in general. It was the bane of his species. Living in a freezing climate meant they would have had to consume vast amounts of calories if they had been mortal, but they were shifters. Their metabolism ran at a faster pace, meaning they had to eat almost double the amount a mortal in such low temperatures would have to consume to remain alive.

He had shaken his instincts to eat hearty meals when he had moved into the guild, slowly adjusting to the warmer climate.

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