Time Anomaly: A Time Travel Romance (Echo Trilogy, #2) by Lindsey Fairleigh

Author:Lindsey Fairleigh [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lindsey Fairleigh
Published: 2015-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Oathbound & Awestruck

If Heru’d had his way, he would’ve carried me like a helpless baby the final few hours of the afternoon’s journey. I was starting to think Heru would prefer to just stick me under his arm and cart me around in general, if only to keep me out of harm’s way.

Though he may have had a point on this one occasion. Once I convinced him to put me down—about fifteen minutes after the caravan had resumed its slow but steady parade across the desert—I proceeded to stumble and trip over basically nothing for the next fifteen minutes. I was bone weary, but at least it was a weariness that wore off fairly quickly. By the time we made camp beside an enormous, rocky outcropping, I felt more or less normal, if a little jittery. Not even the wary glances sent my way were overly bothersome.

Nothing seemed unsettling in comparison to Heru’s silence all afternoon. He stayed by my side, ready to reach out and steady me if I needed him, but he said nothing. And every time I met his eyes, I saw questions and fear, and worst of all, accusation.

“What is wrong with her?” he asked as we approached Nuin, who was standing with Set at the very edge of camp.

Nuin didn’t answer. He simply looked past us, nodded at someone behind us, and started walking along the perimeter of the outcropping, away from camp. “Come with me.”

Heru, Set, and I exchanged a confused look. I shrugged, then started after Nuin, and Heru and Set had little choice but to follow. Hearing footsteps crunching in the rock-strewn sand behind us, I looked over my shoulder. Nekure was trotting to catch up.

Nuin led us around a jutting cliffside, up a narrow path that passed between the face of the cliff and a huge, natural monolith, and finally, toward an uneven break in the cliff’s wall.

I picked up my pace to catch up to him, but Heru caught my wrist. When I looked over my shoulder, meeting his eyes, my breath hitched. Because I knew the man he would one day become so well, I knew what those desperate, golden eyes were asking. Will you stay where I can see you? Will you let me protect you? Will you let me know your secrets? Will you let me know you?

Will you trust me?

I stopped trying to pull my wrist free of his grasp. “I would tell you everything, Heru, I really would . . . if I thought you would believe me.”

He simply stared down at me, his eyes demanding answers I wasn’t willing to give him.

I touched my free hand to the one he’d wrapped around my wrist, pushing it lower so our fingers could link together. “I have a feeling that what you are about to see is going to give you some of the answers you seek.”

I continued on to the opening in the cliff’s wall, Heru right behind me. Our fingers were still linked.

He squeezed my hand when I pulled too far ahead, and again, I looked back at him.

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