Masters of the Flame by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal romance
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

She couldn’t believe she’d turned down a new car, a pot of gold, and a get-out-of-warlock-free card in exchange for…

The chance to make up for her wrongs, she reminded herself. That was all she was getting out of this deal.

Batteries and sexy dragon-shifter not included.

She’d always been the bold one of her trio of friends. But she’d known her daring was a tightrope walk over an abyss of loss and confusion. And more recently, realizing she’d been fed only years of lies—not knowing what had happened to her mother and not understanding the strange magical heritage she’d left behind—she felt the rope unraveling. The ash-hole had used that to his advantage. But no more.

She was claiming the bold bitch—or witch she’d never been.

She faced Torch, focusing not on his sexiness of which he had waaaay too much, or his softness which he’d revealed when he talked about his commitment to his clan, but his strength. Luckily, he had plenty of that too. After all her years not letting any man close, now she had the ideal partner at her side.

For the fight, she reminded herself, not anything else. “What’s the next step?”

“Rave and Piper will—hopefully—be able to recreate that paralysis you hit me with. You’ll take me back to Ashcraft as your prisoner with enough of that on me to fool the warlock. He’ll go for my ichor…” His deep violet eyes glinted with lightning. “And I’ll take it from there.”

She put her hands on her hips and scowled. “You trust me to do this? After everything that happened between us?”

He smirked back at her. “I trust you because of what happened between us.”

A blush heated her face. “I’m not talking about…what happened after my nightmare. I mean after you dropped me. After I tried to kill you.”

It should’ve been stupid to remind him of that, but if anything, his mocking grin deepened. “Such fond memories,” he mused. “I mean those too. We’ve seen the worst of each other, Anjali Herne. How many others can say that and still be together?”

The fire in her cheeks rampaged through the rest of her body in a hot rush. “Together? We’re not… We just…”

He took a long step closer to her, raising the temperature between them to, oh, a million degrees. “We’re both fighters, charging into battle side by side. That is together.”

The warmth drained from her limbs despite the oasis’s protective enclosure. Right. They weren’t together-together.

She tried not to flinch at the loss of something she hadn’t even known she’d wanted, but Torch was watching her too closely.

He raised his hand to her cheek. “If you’d rather run the other way…”

She put her hand over his. “No. I’m all in.”

Still, he searched her face. His thumb under her jaw angled her face to the light as if he wasn’t finding what he was looking for.

Bad enough she had her own doubts about—well, about her whole life, but to have him doubting her too?

She sidled closer to him, closing the last space between them.

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