Midnight Reckoning by Kendra Leigh Castle

Author:Kendra Leigh Castle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC027120
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Published: 2011-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

chapter FOURTEEN

AGAIN.”

Jaden tried to keep his amusement from showing as he watched Lyra hunch over panting, glaring at him from a few feet away. Her forehead was beaded with sweat, and a few curls had escaped from her ponytail to form a wild halo around her head.

Unlike her, he wasn’t winded at all. But then, evading her attacks was an easier job than she had trying to launch them. Not that telling her that would do much to assuage her seething temper. She wanted to take him down. He planned to make her earn that right.

Channeling his sexual frustration into training Lyra had proven incredibly useful when it came to his focus, even if she didn’t seem to appreciate it.

“What the hell do you mean, again?” she snapped, straightening and wiping her forehead with the back of her arm. “I’ve tried to do that move like ten times now, and all you do is step away! I don’t think you showed me right. That, or you’re just making crap up to watch me fall on my ass over and over.”

That was an entertaining bonus, but he didn’t plan on telling her that. He shouldn’t enjoy watching her get mad, but Lyra’s reactions to things were unfailingly honest. And when peppered with one of her profanity-laced tirades, they were irresistible.

“I’m not making anything up. And you’re getting it. You just need to keep working at it,” he said, keeping his voice cool. She was coming along nicely. But if she didn’t learn to control that temper of hers, none of this would be worth anything. He had a sneaking suspicion she was grappling with just as much physical frustration as he was, which likely wasn’t helping matters.

Something had changed between them that night on the bridge. The way she’d kissed him had been… unexpected, and as honest a thing as he’d experienced in a very long time. Their interactions had become warmer since then, more open, even as her training had become a lot more fraught. He thought that probably the reason was because the wolf in her was so close to the surface during these sessions. The animal in her was all instinct and feeling—and it wanted him. He knew the feeling, Jaden thought darkly.

But he wasn’t going to beg, damn it. That kiss had been three nights ago, and he’d behaved. Though knowing the itch was getting to her was kind of satisfying, in a nasty sort of way.

He saw Lyra’s eyes flash hot gold, and his body began to respond accordingly. Jaden thought frantically of images to halt his body’s reaction.

Ice cubes… Antarctica… Dorien in a dress…

The last one worked—sort of.

“Keep working at it, keep working at it,” Lyra mimicked in a sing-song voice. “Is that all you can say? I could have gotten a parrot and gotten as much help!”

“I resent that,” Jaden said smoothly. “I have a much nicer voice than a parrot.”

Lyra bared her teeth at him instead of laughing. “Oh, you think this is funny, huh? Watching me flail around while you just stand there directing.

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