The Grace of a Savage by Collette Carmon

Author:Collette Carmon [Carmon, Collette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-24T18:30:00+00:00

Carolina is kind enough to give him a few hours.

“For old time’s sake, Sterling.” Is what she said before she headed up to bed.

Sterling buries his hands in his hair, wondering how he’s supposed to keep a kid he hardly knows—but is growing to love—safe.

The thump of boots on wood alerts him to another presence. Glancing up sharply, Sterling sees a girl he hasn’t seen in years. She’s older—a woman—and just as vivacious as he remembers.

“Adeline.”

22

Adeline

Walking inside Miss Carolina’s home, Adeline is greeted with the profile of a man she thought lost to the realm of ignorant mortals. Those lucky enough to live in a world without worrying about the things that go bump in the night.

Bastard Seeds of The Light Bringer.

He looks up with those glittering hazel eyes she remembers—from all those days she tried to make him notice her during their shared summers in youth.

A moot effort on her part since Sterling’s mind was always with another. Probably the mother of the boy who has all the trashy magazines speculating about Sterling’s secret life. A secret they’d never be able to comprehend even if they finally uncovered the truth. Their world runs far deeper than a secret love-child.

A son is just the surface of Sterling’s hidden life.

“Adeline,” Sterling says with that same smokey voice. Drawing her back to the moment.

Another thrill rushes through Adeline. He’s better looking now than he’s ever been.

“What brings you to Miss Carolina’s?” She asks as she sets her heavy duffle down on the floor. Full of laundry that needs washing and weapons that need cleaning, but those duties can come later. After she tries to get closer to her childhood fantasy.

“Passin’ through, gonna have to find a safer place than this for my new responsibility.” He jerks his head in the direction of the living room.

Adeline had seen a boy on the couch on her way into the kitchen. A sleeping memory come back to life, a boy who could be a dark-haired twin to the Sterling from Adeline’s youth.

“Carolina mad at you?” She asks instead of talking about the boy.

The one she doesn’t want to think on for too long because his presence fills her with an uncomfortable rage. An envy for his faceless mother—a woman Adeline doesn’t know but hates with every fiber of her being. So she asks about Carolina. Her being mad at Sterling is the only reason Adeline can think of that would make the old woman not want to keep Sterling or his kid for the night.

“No,” Sterling chuckles in response. Unwinding his hair from the messy knot on the top of his head. His hair falls like shining cornsilk, and Adeline still longs to know if it feels as soft as it looks.

“Carolina just can’t go against the code.” He turns to her with those pretty eyes, the ones that glitter like an undiscovered element. A rainbow of colors swirling around his pupil. “So I’ve got a little time to rest before I try and find some place to keep him safe.

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