The Nightmare in Him by Suzanne Wright

Author:Suzanne Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piatkus

Sitting in the middle of Cain’s bed later that day, Wynter watched him pace back and forth. He made quite a picture, fluid and predatory, his muscles bunching and rippling beneath his shirt. Her stomach would have gotten all fluttery for sure if he wasn’t also seriously pissed. “You promised you wouldn’t overreact,” she reminded him.

He spared her a quick look. “And I haven’t,” he clipped.

“You just said you’re going to rip out her spinal cord and wrap it around her neck.”

He gave a stiff shrug. “She deserves worse.”

Wynter would have preferred not to have told him about the visit Ishtar paid her. He had enough things on his mind right now, and she didn’t want the bitch to take up space in his head. But he would have found out from someone else, just as he’d found out about the woman’s first visit months ago. Then he’d have been upset that he hadn’t heard of it directly from Wynter. Plus, there were enough secrets between them as it was.

Moreover, it was only sensible to alert Cain. After all, there was a chance that Ishtar would sneakily deliver Wynter into the Aeons’ hands herself. If Wynter did mysteriously disappear, Cain would know exactly who to question.

“Not gonna lie,” Wynter began, “you make my hormones weak when you turn growly and snarly like this. But she’s not worth the energy you’re putting into all that pacing. And she’s far from worth the kind of reaction you’re considering giving her.”

“I will not show her mercy,” he said, his voice as dark as those eyes that glittered at her. “She tried to make you give yourself up, knowing you would eventually die if you did.”

“But to her, this wasn’t a big deal. You know how her mind works. The way Ishtar sees it, I’m a mere mortal, as common as an ant. And just as a mage might sacrifice animals without much of a thought, she’d easily urge me to sacrifice myself because in the grand scheme of things I simply don’t matter.”

A low growl slipped out of him. “You matter to me. You matter a fuck of a lot to me. She knows that. She ignored it. And she needs to answer for it.”

“But what I said before still applies—you can’t afford to lose any Ancients when you might soon be coming up against the Aeons again. And it wouldn’t only be Ishtar you’d be without. Inanna wouldn’t exactly take her sister’s death well. She’d probably seek to avenge her. You’d kill Inanna, of course. But then you’d be two Ancients down.”

He stopped pacing, his teeth grinding. “I can’t—I won’t—let what Ishtar did slide.”

“I’m not asking you to. I’m simply asking you not to kill her.” Wynter would rather do that herself, though of course not yet.

“She knew what she was risking.”

“But my point still applies.”

Cain cursed. “It never even occurred to me that she would make such an illogical move,” he said, crossing to the bed. “She couldn’t have honestly thought that you would agree to surrender yourself to the Aeons.

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