The Seduction of James Gray (Moonlight Falls Book 1) by Colette Rivera

Author:Colette Rivera [Rivera, Colette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Colette Rivera Books
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“What do you mean you’re trapped at the house?”

Sebastian shook James. “What do you think I mean? I can’t leave. I’m not some antisocial recluse avoiding everyone in Moonlight Falls by choice. I wasn’t only bound to secrecy. I’m tied to this damn place—trapped by magic, cursed—and unable to tell anyone what’s really going on.”

James’s stomach dropped. He suddenly felt cold. “So this isn’t about the energy draining at all? You need me to free you? From Storm House?”

“Yes!” Sebastian’s eyes were wild. He looked completely unhinged, covered in blood and shaking, his breathing getting shallow like he was starting to panic.

“Okay.” James covered Sebastian’s hands, where they still had a death grip on his hair. “We’ll get you out. Unbinding your tongue worked. Things are better than they were this morning. You won’t be stuck here now that I know you need to be freed.”

Sebastian blinked, his eyes going shiny. “You’re right. Oh hell, I can’t believe this worked.” He let out a shaky laugh and let go of James’s hair.

James didn’t release Sebastian’s hands, bringing them to rest in his lap. “I can’t believe those damn tales really were a coded message. I said that just to annoy you.”

“Clever, right?” Sebastian smiled, filling James with relief even though the situation was much worse than he’d ever have guessed. He couldn’t imagine what it would have been like for Sebastian to be trapped out here and unable to tell anyone.

“Let’s get this blood cleaned off. Then I have about a million questions for you.”

“There’s a bathroom down the hall,” Sebastian said, but he didn’t seem to want to let James go. His grip on James’s fingers tightened.

They stayed on the ground for a minute longer. Sebastian’s hold on James was more desperate than sensual, but that was okay. James waited until Sebastian was ready to release him. He’d have sat there the rest of the day if that was what Sebastian needed.

When they got up, James almost fell back down, a dizzy spell hitting him hard.

“That was a lot of magic.” James steadied himself and grabbed his shirt and jacket.

Sebastian peeled off the remainder of his ruined shirt and dropped it to the floor. “I’m feeling it too. We’ll raid the pantry while I tell you everything.”

They slowly made their way to the bathroom across the hall from the kitchen and cleaned up in the sink. Wiping off the mixed blood from above their hearts broke the link between their magic, sending a shiver through them both.

At least unlinking was less intense than linking. They didn’t need more heightened emotions right now.

Sebastian picked up James’s jacket. “Can I borrow this?”

James pulled his shirt over his head. “Sure.”

Sebastian slipped the jacket on. It was too large in the shoulders for his slight frame. He pulled it tight around himself as he often did with his robe, but the sleeves rode up, too short on Sebastian’s longer arms. It fit terribly, but James found the sight of Sebastian in his clothes more appealing than anything he’d ever seen.

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