Primal Heat 4 by A. C. Arthur

Author:A. C. Arthur [Arthur, A. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

The time had finally come and strangely enough, Boden did not feel an ounce of excitement. There was no hum of anticipation, no anxious tingles moving throughout his body. This moment had been a long time coming. Well, the time was now. And he was ready.

“They will be here by seven, just as you asked,” Bianca said, coming to sit beside him on the couch.

Yesterday she’d packed their things and they’d made the drive from the Four Seasons to the suite they now occupied at the Gaylord. Both hotels had been phenomenal in their décor and service. She draped an arm over his shoulder, her chin resting there as she used a finger to run along the line of his jaw. The touch annoyed him and Boden tilted his head out of her reach.

“How many?” he asked.

“Charles confirmed two hundred,” she replied. If she was ruffled by his movements he couldn’t tell, nor did he care.

Years ago, Bianca Adani had come in handy. She’d been in the right place at the right time and he’d acted accordingly, taking the body she offered and the allegiance she swore after telling him who she really was. The initial shock that he’d slept with Acacia’s half-sister had first angered him. Then, after sleeping with Bianca again, he thought it fitting. Teodoro had been so smug and so arrogant that day he’d used his army of Lormenian soldiers to chase Boden out of the Sierra Leone rain forest. They’d forbidden him to come back, promising to do the Elders’ biding and behead him if they so much as smelled his scent again.

With a second death ordered and no army to back him up, Boden had no choice but to leave. But he did not go far.

He’d hidden for months in the village just west of the rain forest until one day, he’d looked up and Bianca had been standing there. Later she would tell him how Teodoro had raped her mother repeatedly, using her as his sex slave, impregnating her twice before finally tossing her out, banning her from the rain forest as well. Her mother had taken a job as a healer with one of the local missionary groups that had no idea she was a shifter. There in that small village, she’d raised her daughters as best she could, never letting them forget that their father was the Lormenian tribal leader and that he had turned them away, preferring his firstborn child, Acacia.

Bianca hated the fact that Acacia was treated as a princess while she was simply tossed away by Teodoro and the tribe. She’d admitted to Boden that she’d twice come to the rain forest before he’d been exiled, and watched him with Acacia. The moment she’d heard of what Teodoro had done to him, she’d set out to find him, wanting what her sister had, Boden had thought smugly. Boden hadn’t loved Bianca and he knew she’d never be his mate, but he’d seen something in her eyes the

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