Stone Cold Lover by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, romance, Fantasy, Sagas, Gothic, General
ISBN: 9781466841802
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Spar stood watch at the window of Felicity’s apartment and brooded. Despite her protestations, he could detect the hesitation in her movements that spoke of pain. She might not have bloody wounds or broken bones this time, but he did not like the idea of her being in the slightest discomfort. Immediately upon reaching her home, he had snatched the envelope out of her hand and sent her to the bathroom. A warm soak in a hot tub should ease some of her aches, and the time apart provided him time to think.

He could feel her pulling away, or at least making the attempt. He had noticed it immediately after the golem attack, but he had written it off to the shock of yet another attempt on her life in just a few short days. The ride back on her motorcycle had afforded him no opportunity to comfort her, aside from holding her in his arms, but even then she had held herself stiffly in his embrace. She kept trying to create distance between them, and Spar would not allow that to happen.

He had known from the beginning that he reacted to Felicity in a way he had experienced with no other woman, no other person, in all his long life. That alone fascinated him, but once he had touched her intimately, he had begun to suspect that something greater than mere attraction might be at work.

He had believed the stories to be only that—stories. He’d heard the tales of the first Guardians, as all of his kind had. History, after all, was one of the Light’s greatest teachers.

When the first Guardians had been summoned by the Guild to battle the seven demons, they had awed the world with their terrible might. For days and weeks they had battled until finally the Seven were ripped apart and cast out of the mortal realm to their abysmal prisons. Duty fulfilled, the Guardians had slept until once again the Darkness stirred and the Wardens summoned them to their task.

Over and over, the cycle repeated, but as fierce and powerful as the Guardians were, they existed only to fight a battle they did not even claim as their own. They felt no connection to the humans they defended or to the world in which they made war, and so eventually they ceased to answer the summons of the Guild. Without anger or pain or protectiveness to make them fight, they had no reason to wake, and Darkness threatened to take over the whole of the world.

Eventually, a woman stepped forward and defied the Guild by offering her aid in waking the Guardians. Despite their protests she went to the feet of the first statue and knelt, and there she prayed to the Light to aid her and return the Guardians to the mortal world to save humanity. Before the prayer even finished, a mighty crack split the air and the Guardian leapt from the stone and seized the woman, claiming her as his.

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