The Irishman (A Legacy Novella) (The Legacy Series Book 7) by Sheritta Bitikofer

Author:Sheritta Bitikofer [Bitikofer, Sheritta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946821300
Publisher: Moonstruck Writing
Published: 2018-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Dustin let the cool water wash over his arms. The water chilled his skin to bring him back to the present, instead of reliving those terrible few seconds of the past that made him want to scream and beat on the stone well. So that was it. He had only needed an alpha with him that night when he shifted for the first time. Maybe then, Cassandra would be alive right now. An alpha could have taken command over his wolfish form and stopped him from killing her.

Over the last few weeks, he had learned more than he ever cared to know about the supernatural world. Very little of what Darren said matched up with the legends of the faoladh or the mercenary wolf shifters of Tipperary. What he called loups-garous were almost so entirely different that Dustin didn’t even regard them as the same anymore.

He came to learn, without Darren’s instruction, that the wolf was like an inner spirit that lived within him. It’s what made him crave meat and get sick on vegetables. It was that essence that retained its own emotions and energies that he had felt since the moment he woke up outside Kenmare. He even recognized that it mourned for the loss of Cassandra just as keenly as Dustin did. It must have known what they did to her, what he did.

Darren wasn’t inclined to believe that it was a spiritual tether between man and wolf. It seemed more like something that could be observed and studied; a physical, biological explanation that involved the psyche of the host rather than the soul. Given Darren’s dedication to science and education as opposed to religious or spiritual matters, that didn’t surprise Dustin.

He had come to know the family so well over the last few weeks that he almost believed he could belong here in the swampy forest outside Bordeaux. But one mention of John Croxen and some loup-garou orphanage in Albi obliterated those hopes.

Either way, he would miss the late-night talks by the fire and Lucy’s bubbly laugh when she played outside after her lessons were complete. He’d even miss Eleanor’s reprimands. She could slip from a sweet motherly figure to an unsympathetic woman who wouldn’t let him eat breakfast unless his bed was made first.

One thing he wouldn’t miss were the guarded discussions between his two hosts. He knew they were talking about him. Why else would they drop their voices to a low whisper and speak in a language he didn’t understand? They made him feel as if something was going terribly wrong in his training, or that he was making himself into a burden that they couldn’t bear any longer.

Dustin tried his best to help with the household chores when he could and even took trips to town with Darren when they needed an extra hand to carry back their purchases. The deafening noise of Bordeaux would not bar him from being useful, and it served as an extra opportunity to refine his senses, choosing what he would and would not hear.

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