The Unseen Heir (Legends of Abreia Book 2) by Kenley Davidson

Author:Kenley Davidson [Davidson, Kenley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Page Nine Press
Published: 2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Put me down,” Leisa said, but he only clenched her tighter.

It wasn’t that she wanted to be anywhere else. Even now—when they were running for their lives—she could imagine nothing more blissful than being cradled in this man’s arms, tucked against his chest as though she were something breakable and precious.

Breakable, she most certainly was.

But she wasn’t ready to break yet. She had one more thing to do.

“We’ll go faster if we run together,” she said gently.

He remained stubbornly silent.

“Kyrion, maybe we should…”

“No.” His tone was flat. Final. “We are not splitting up unless you agree to head straight for the river and cross it.”

“And you know I won’t do that.”

With obvious reluctance, he loosened his arms and let her slide to the ground. When she was sure her knees would hold, Leisa bit her lip, gathered her courage, and reached for his hand.

It was warm and strong, just as he was, and when he wrapped his fingers around hers, it gave her the courage to tug him forward. “Let’s go,” she said. “Better to try than to stand still.”

He moved finally, a grim set to his jaw and a dangerous light in his gray eyes. They headed west, back towards the river, and Leisa said nothing as they jogged through the woods, ears straining for any hint of their pursuers.

Running again. Sometimes it seemed they’d been perpetually on the run since they first learned one another’s names. Not once had they been given a moment to stop and see one another as simply Kyrion and Leisa—two very different people thrown together by circumstances that defied imagination.

Would they have grown so close if danger had not dogged their steps since the moment they met? Would she feel this desperate fear for his life had he not been forced to save hers so many times?

And would they ever get the chance to answer those questions, or would fate take a hand to ensure that they would never fully know what the other was thinking or feeling?

Too late, a voice whispered in her head. Too late to find out. She already knew what she had to do.

But for the moment, they ran, until night began to fall, and Kyrion grew visibly grimmer. The river had to be close, but they had yet to reach it, and when a howl sounded no more than a few hundred yards away, his teeth bared in a soundless snarl.

“I won’t let them have you,” he growled, pulling her closer as he searched the brush.

“Maybe it will be all right,” she said. “Maybe they will let you prove that you are who you say.”

But she could tell he didn’t believe her words any more than she did.

Far too close now, shadowy forms flitted from tree to tree. Some appeared human, but there was also the wolf, and beside it, the dark shape of a panther.

A drop-off loomed up ahead, and Kyrion picked her up again before he jumped down. Rounding an ancient tree, he set his

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