Too Dangerous to Desire (Lords of Midnight) by Elliott Cara

Author:Elliott, Cara [Elliott, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2012-11-19T23:00:00+00:00

Guiding his mount down through the spiky green gorse to the winding country lane, Cameron spurred the big stallion to a canter. “Come, Lucifer,” he murmured after tightening his grip on the reins. “Let us outride any demons who seek to follow.”

The horse gave a foam-flecked snort and lengthened its stride, hooves kicking up clouds of pale dust. Cameron leaned low in the saddle, urging him to greater speed, hoping the drumming would drown out the voices of his inner devils.

Cad! Coward! The jeers were too loud to ignore.

I was selfish, he confessed to himself, squinting against the slap of the wind. Weak. Foolish. Discipline and detachment were the keys to survival. And yet he let every god-benighted lesson he had learned over the past ten years fall to the wayside every time Sophie was near him.

Damn, damn, damn.

The drumming hoofbeats seemed to echo his inward oaths.

The Inner Voices refused to be silenced. Admit it! You are bedeviled—besotted—by love!

“Bloody hell.” Slowing his lathered stallion to a sedate trot, Cameron straightened in the saddle. “Laugh all you want,” he called out loudly, startling two grouse from a nearby thicket. “Yes, I am in love with Sophie Lawrance! I shouldn’t be, but I am.” Oh, how his fellow Hellhounds would laugh themselves sick to hear him howling at the heavens. “I daresay I shall have to crawl into the Lair with my tail between my legs,” he added in a lower voice. “And Cupid’s arrow protruding from my bum.”

Cameron winced, thinking of all the barbed teasing he would take. But fair was fair, he conceded. He had taken ruthless delight in nipping at their flanks. He could hardly complain if the teeth were now turned on him.

Lapsing into a pensive silence, he rode on, his thoughts turning from his friends to Sophie—a much more complex and confusing topic. There was no denying the physical chemistry between them. Like oil ignited by sparks, flames licked up at the first touch. As for her deeper emotions…

Expelling a harried sigh, he looked up at the scudding clouds playing hide and seek with the sun. Sophie did not wear her heart on her sleeve. Like him, she had taught herself to keep her true feelings well hidden. And yet, and yet—beneath the careful show of logic, a glimmer of her innermost thoughts had shone through.

A glorious, gleaming flicker of sunshine, which had warmed him to the very core.

Love. It should be simple. But what kind of life could he offer her? He was a bastard who made a living in the netherworld of clandestine crime, slithering through shadows and secrets. How can I ask her to dwell in such darkness? Sophie was a creature of light and sun. She would deny it, but after a time—a month? a year?—she would start to wither away.

As if influenced by his own stormy mood, the skies chose to unleash a sudden rainsquall. Throwing up the collar of his coat, Cameron forged on through the lashing drops and whipping winds. It soon stilled to a sullen gray fog and intermittent showers.

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