Shadowed Magic (The Enlightened Species Novella) by Wendy S. Hales

Author:Wendy S. Hales [Hales, Wendy S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Wendy S. Hales
Published: 2012-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Seven days of Eros feeding her, drugging her, reading to her, sleeping and they’d had the most amazing conversation. They spent an entire day only speaking Japanese. Aymee had become rusty in the language of her father since his death. Aymee had never been happier … except Eros seemed to keep his distance from her. He'd even had Umbrae and Jess take turns coming by to help her shower and get cleaned up every morning, until yesterday when she'd told him she felt able to do it herself. She woke every day tucked into his bed alone. Her second night, when she'd asked him to hold her while she slept, he'd declined using a lame 'I'm a rough sleeper' excuse. Maybe what she'd thought was blossoming between them had been a figment of her drug induced imagination. The few times she'd tried to touch him, even taking his arm when her legs stiffened up from resting, had felt awkward though he never pulled away. He'd said he wanted to seriously date her … didn't he know what that meant? Or maybe he regretted asking at all. That she'd wanted an exclusive relationship with anyone shocked the hell out of her. She'd gone out of her way to avoid entanglements since Mitch. Was Mitch's sudden persistent attention causing Eros to back off? Mitch had brought or had delivered roses, books and magazines everyday. Of course Aymee refused to see him or accept anything from him, which left Eros or one of his sons dealing with Mitch. Maybe Eros though her avoidance of Mitch a weakness and resented being her unwitting representative. Had Mitch said something to Eros that caused Eros to re-think his desire to know her better?

Aymee leaned into the mirror. The stitches didn't hurt much anymore and her bruises had faded to an icky yellow. Mostly she just felt stiff, and a week of inactivity didn't help. Eros must have realized she felt better too, he'd only halfheartedly argued with her when she'd refused pain pills this morning. A little foundation to the remnant of her black eye, and she brushed her hair into a high ponytail. The clothes Irsu'd packed were mostly dirty but she did find knee high Lycra workout shorts and a racer back workout half top. She needed to stretch out … badly. An hour of meditative martial arts to jump-start her Zen was a must.

Aymee bypassed the divine scent of coffee coming from the kitchen to duck out the French doors off the living room. Another month of Eros's care and lying around and Aymee would gain fifteen pounds. The guy could cook!

In the center of the grass between Eros's house and his sons' homes, she turned to face the rising sun. She closed her eyes and allowed its warmth to penetrate her, lifted her chin toward it. Rising her arms extended from her body upwards toward the sky, she inhaled slowly, then reversed the move on the exhale to warm up.

Ten minutes into her moves, she smelled the scent of sage and mint.

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