The Centaur's Sacrifice: A Waiting Hearts World Romance (Waiting Hearts: Centaurs Book 2) by Jena Wade & Lorelei M. Hart

Author:Jena Wade & Lorelei M. Hart [Wade, Jena & Hart, Lorelei M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Luan

What if our bond severed? I hadn’t really considered that a possibility. Not really.

Could it be that my happy ever after was over before it even began? All because I didn’t understand something that was important to my mate? Throughout all of this, I always held onto the hope that we’d figure things out, that this was just a rough patch. My years alone were just making everything more complicated.

My understanding of how the rest of the word lived was like Swiss cheese. There were holes in my knowledge—lots of them. It would’ve been wise for me to study up when we heard more people were coming, including our liaison. But I’d made the very wrong assumption that knowing Maddox was enough.

I hadn’t taken into consideration that Maddox’s life had hardly been what anyone called normal out there. His pride had been abusive, and he’d been trapped between a rock and a hard place. He’d done so much for his pride, more than any of them probably realized.

Why did I think I had to understand why Marcus’s job was important? I should just take his word for it and that would be the end of the discussion. It shouldn’t have been so hard.

If Marcus needed to continue his role, then who was I to stand in his way? He was right, this was all on me. And now it was on me to fix it.

We walked back to our home in silence. Marcus rode astride my back so that we could touch each other.

It was dark when we arrived. Marcus went straight to the bed and stripped out of his clothes. He was so done for the day, and zero parts of me blamed him. Talking to Apollo tended to do that to a person.

“I’m tired. I’ll transcribe my notes in the morning,” he said. He pulled on an oversized t-shirt he liked to sleep in. “Are you coming to bed?”

I shook my head. “I want to gather more wood for the fire. It feels like it might get cold tonight.”

He looked like me like maybe he didn’t believe my words.

It wasn’t a lie. I was going to gather wood, but I didn’t need to. The fire would burn without it. The house would stay the same temperature without the fire if I wanted. I enjoyed the ambiance of a crackling fire, though.

“Okay,” he said finally, and he crawled beneath the furs.

I watched him snuggle into our bed for a moment, then turned and went outside.

The night was cool, the breeze light. I stood just outside my home and stared up at the stars. No clouds were within view, so the starry night was visible. They twinkled and glowed. The moon shone brightly in its waxing gibbous state. A hum began within me as I stood in the moonlight.

My creator embodied me with the strength of the moonlight. It coursed through my veins like liquid silver. Where Terran had the strength of the earth and Apollo the fire of the sun, I had the wisdom of the cosmos and the knowledge of forgotten ruins.

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