Soul Scorched by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781466883345
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-THREE

Darcy looked at the food delivered by Thorn and wasn’t sure if she could eat. She was in knots after what happened, and not even Thorn’s assurances that Warrick was fine helped.

Of course Thorn would tell her Warrick was all right. But if Warrick wasn’t hurt, why didn’t he bring the food?

“Because you told him to leave, that’s why. Idiot,” Darcy told herself.

She swiped a hand to shove the hair back from her face and sighed. She had taken her hair down twice. Now she was alone again. Not completely alone. Warrick and Thorn were near, but Warrick wasn’t with her. All because she’d let her anger get the better of her.

Darcy brought the food into her office and placed it on the desk. She couldn’t sit. She had to occupy her body somehow to keep her mind off what had occurred.

With nothing else to do, she made her way into the back and tended to her plants. It did nothing to help as it usually did. Her hands were working but with tasks she could do in her sleep. Which left her mind free to wander.

And all she could think about was her words to Warrick, him walking out, and then the Dark arriving. She grew ill recalling how they had surrounded him.

Darcy finished with the plants and returned to the front. The rain had yet to let up, and the spray was getting into the store. She tried to lift the door, but it was too heavy for her. Undeterred, she released just enough magic to help her not just right the door, but set it in place. It wouldn’t close, but it kept most of the water out.

Next, she gathered the crystals that weren’t broken and set them in a box in her office. Once that was done, she began to clean up the mess.

When Darcy finished, she looked up to find only an hour had passed. At least she’d had sixty minutes of not worrying. It wasn’t a lot, but it was enough to give her a bit respite.

Darcy looked at the shattered window on the door hoping for some glimpse of Warrick. She didn’t get one. Not only was the rain coming down too hard to see more than a few feet from the door, but the dark skies cast shadows everywhere.

Storms like these were a common occurrence, and they didn’t keep people from going about their business. They kept their heads down and hurried from place to place.

Humans weren’t the only ones walking about however. Her gaze snagged on a Dark here or there. Just her luck they wouldn’t go away. Most likely they would return with more. Would she survive another encounter?

Would Warrick and Thorn?

Darcy was about to turn away when she saw a woman hurrying past the front of her shop bump into a Dark. Darcy shouted to get the woman’s attention, but one look into the Dark’s red eyes, and the woman was his.

They walked off together, the Dark shooting Darcy a smug smile.

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