Night Play by Sherrilyn Keynon

Author:Sherrilyn Keynon [Keynon, Sherrilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-28T04:04:03+00:00

Not

theirs."

This couldn't be real. No. Bride was dreaming, though why she was

dreaming this,

she had no idea. "You don't look like Vane."

Pure, unadulterated hatred glowed in Bryani's hazel eyes. "He looks like his

filthy father."

Bride frowned as she remembered Fury saying that to her. Ah, her mind was

replaying it in her delusion. Made sense.

Sort of.

But why would she make up so tragic a tale? Bride had never been the kind

of

person to wish ill on anyone, least of all Vane's mother.

Could this be real?

Was that possible?

Bride moved toward the blond woman and took her hands in hers to study

her

palms. "You don't have a mark."

"Nay. If the mating isn't consummated within three weeks, the mark fades

and we

as women are free to go our own way. The men are left impotent for the

duration

of our lives."

Bride frowned up at her. Bryani was really tall. "You left his father

impotent?"

An evil glint came into Bryani's hazel-green eyes. "I left him more than that.

Once my children were born, I took my three human children and left my

three

puppies with him, then gelded the bastard for what he'd done to me. I'm sure

not

a day passes where he doesn't wish he'd killed me when he had the chance."

Bride cringed at the thought. "Why am I dreaming this?" she asked. "I don't

understand this nightmare."

Bryani shook her head. "This is real, Bride. I know in the human world

things

such as what I describe don't happen. But you must believe me. There are

things

that reside alongside you in the everyday world that you never realize are

there."

One second Bryani was standing in front of Bride and in the next, the

woman was

a huge white timber wolf that bore a terrifying resemblance to her adopted

pet.

Bride staggered back.

No, this wasn't real. This wasn't.

"I want to go home," she said out loud. "I have to wake up. Please, God, let

me

wake up!"

Vane pulled out of his trance as he realized where his mate was.

Bride was in his mother's homeland. A place where he had sworn to never

return.

He'd only been there once. Long ago when he had bartered with Acheron

Parthenopaeus to help him find his birth mother.

To this day, Vane didn't know why he'd wanted to find her. Maybe it was all

the

years of living with a father who hated him and he wanted to see if there was

any chance his mother might tolerate him.

Or maybe because he had become human, he thought she might accept him.

Instead, she had tried to kill him.

"I curse the day I bore you."

Her words still resonated deep inside him and now she had struck the final

blow.

She had set loose a demon to take his mate. No Were-Hunter could remove a

human

from their time period without the human's permission. Only demons and

gods were

exempt from that rule.

But why? Why would his mother have taken Bride back to Dark Age

Britain? He

didn't trust his mother. Her hatred of him and his father was too great.

Vane trusted no humans.

No, Bride was his responsibility, and the last thing she needed was to be left

alone with an Arcadian pack in the past where he'd been born.

He would have to go and claim her and bring her back to her home.

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