Master of Passion by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight [Knight, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009061-02932
Amazon: B07Y23314S
Goodreads: 48351944
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2019-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Adam frowned at the intensity of his disappointment. Wait, why do I even care? She’s high-handed and arrogant and she turned me into a puppet. The last thing I need is a relationship with her. And yet the grief on Opal’s face wrung his heart anyway. “I’m sorry.”

“It was a long time ago.” She squared her shoulders. “Alys said I should tell you about it.”

He wasn’t sure he wanted to hear it, but evidently that wasn’t one of the options. Adam blew out a breath and sat on the edge of the bed. “So he… Gifted you? Was he one of those court seducers?”

She shook her head and moved to sink down beside him. “No, it was actually more like your situation. Somebody had a vision I was needed. It was 1884, and I was hiding out in this little town, dressed as a boy, hungry as hell, and hoping not to get killed by the same bastards who’d murdered my family.”

“What the fuck happened?”

Opal sighed. “Range war. There was this lake on my family’s land a neighboring cattle baron had his eye on. It was more of a pond, but the summer had been dry, and he wanted the water. Hell of a thing to kill ten people over.”

“They wiped out everybody?”

She nodded. “They hit us late one night. My dad and his ranch hands held them off while I tried to get my little brother to safety. He was riding behind me holding on, and when one of the killers fired at us as we rode away, he took a bullet in the arm. It wasn’t even that bad. We escaped up into the hills and lost them. Unfortunately, Billy’s wound got infected and he died a week later. I buried him and sneaked back home. The bastards had burned the house down. Everyone was dead.” Opal’s mouth took on a bitter cast. “I kept riding until I reached a town I thought was so far away, I’d be safe. I tried to get the sheriff to do something about the massacre, but he either didn’t believe me or pretended not to.”

Adam felt sick. “How old were you?”

“Nineteen. I’d run out of bullets and I was hungry, but I didn’t have any money.” A slow smile replaced the darkness in her eyes. “Then this good-looking stranger named Joaquin offered to buy me lunch. Seems he had a sudden need to buy my horse. Paid me a hell of a lot more than that crow bait was worth, too. It took me maybe two days to fall in love with him while he pretended to believe I was a boy.”

“And you became Magekind.” And why the hell am I jealous of a dead man over a woman I just met?

“Yeah. We were together for the next one hundred and twenty-four years. But then…” Her mouth took on a bitter twist. “What do you know about the werewolves?”

Adam blinked as his brain disgorged a chunk of information. “Merlin created them to keep an eye on the Magekind in case we tried to enslave humanity.

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