Turning Point by Lisanne Norman

Author:Lisanne Norman [Norman, Lisanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780886775759
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Goodreads: 148282
Publisher: DAW
Published: 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"Why?" she asked tonelessly.

"I need to see your face," he said simply.

She looked up. He watched her eyes move across his face, taking in his Alienness, the aftermath of thatbloody fight. Each second was like a death for him. He daren't listen to their Link for fear of what hewould find.

"What do you have to say?" she asked at length.

"I wanted to talk to you, to get to know you as a person, to tell you about our Link, but we haven't had the time. We've been so busy for everyone else, both our races—No, by Vartra! Call it what it is, our species!—that we've had no time for ourselves. I have to tell you… Oh, damnit!" he swore, turning away and pounding his fist against a tree. "Why is it suddenly so hard to talk to you?"

The silence lengthened until he thought she had left. He felt a light touch and turned round.

Ignoring the throbbing pain, he put his hands on her shoulders, looking at her closely. She seemed lessdistant. He still dared not touch her mind, dared not hope.

"Carrie, because of what I did when your sister died, the link we formed the other day, it… it isn't an

ordinary link."

"I know," she said quietly.

"Among our people, this Link makes the two people Leskas to each other. This I have told you."

She nodded.

"I haven't told you the full truth because I didn't think it could apply to us, because we are… different."

He took a deep breath and tightened his grip, making his talons extend slightly.

"I've been afraid for several days now that this isn't so. We are true Leskas."

"I know."

"No, you don't know! Leskas are life-mates, bound by something stronger than either of them. You and I, we're bound together… for life. We. Cannot. Dissolve. The bond." He punctuated the words by shaking her slightly. "Do you understand me?" he asked.

"Yes," she said, tears beginning to course down her face.

"Only death can separate us—the deaths of both of us, not just one. We cannot part from each other for

long because it causes mental suffering." He stopped, taking a deep breath.

"The bond is also sexual. It gives us a need for each other, flesh to flesh, mind to mind. The Gods alone know why, but they have made us one. Now do you fully understand?" He took a shuddering breath and waited for an answer.

"What do you want to do?" she whispered, the tears still falling.

"Want? I have no say in the matter," he said, his voice ragged. "I cannot see you as other than my true Leska, my life-mate. May Vartra and the other Gods have pity on me, because I would have no other than you!"

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