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Carpathian 21 - Dark Peril

Carpathian 21 - Dark Peril

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and there was no doubt in her mind that neither she nor her jaguar would find a way out of the chamber. She wasn’t going to waste her strength trying. You don’t want to disappoint him, her warrior self taunted.

    She straddled him and bent down, her hands framing his face. He was so incredible, this one man she’d thought never to find. She didn’t know one such as he could exist. She was in his mind, knew him to be a man who would protect a woman, would fight to the death for her. She brushed her fingers lightly over his tough features. He was no boy. A strong face, for a strong man. He had chosen duty to his people, the one thing she understood. He thought to die.

    “There are so many terrible men in the world, Dominic, men who do horrible things to those weaker just because they can. I don’t understand anymore. Why are you chosen for such a terrible mission, and not one of them?”

    I chose, fél ku kuuluaak sívam bels —beloved. I did not know you were in this world. I was going to the next in hopes of finding you.

    Of course he was aware of her hands on him. She sighed and rolled off of him, afraid she was too needy for his touch, for his wisdom. For his company. “Would you have chosen not to go on this mission then? Had you known about me, would you have allowed another to take your place?”

    An image of Zacarias came into her mind. He offered. He wanted me to go to a healer and try to remove the blood. He said he would go in my place.

    Her heart contracted as he replayed the exchange in his head. “Because I am his family? I despised him. He is so . . . overbearing.” She was ashamed. “I had no idea he would do such a thing for a woman he has never met.”

    He loves his brothers. His memory of that love and of his honor have kept him going all these long endless years, Solange. He believes he cannot live with a woman who would resent his dominance. He has little left but service to those he loves.

    She pressed the heels of her hands to her eyes hard. “Why didn’t you say yes?” Her heart pounded, waiting for the answer.

    I have the best chance to fight the pull of the bloodlust call. I am Dragonseeker. I will not, for my own pleasure, turn this job over to someone else. I set my foot on this path and I must follow it.

    She let her breath out. Of course he would do the right thing. He had honor. “When Juliette found Riordan in their laboratory, Jasmine was taken. They managed to get their hands on my mother, my aunt and little Jasmine, although I had taken an oath to protect them—especially her. There was a jaguar who could partially shift. I’d never seen anything like that. None of us could do that, not my mother, and not Aunt Audrey. I knew how strong they were when I saw that.”

    She was silent and he simply waited for her to continue. The silence stretched a long time, but he never stirred, not even in her mind. She could feel his presence there, but he didn’t push her. If she wanted to share, he would listen, but he wouldn’t force her confidence.

    Solange sighed. She’d never needed anyone, and to tell him her secrets was frightening and yet liberating.
    She respected his abilities as a warrior. She wanted to succeed in killing Brodrick. She didn’t want to die in vain and leave her birth father behind to continue his despicable purging of any jaguar strain that wasn’t pure.

    “I began to practice. Running and shifting. Leaping from trees and shifting. Most of all partially shifting, and I’ve gotten very good at it. Purebloods can do things other jaguars can’t do. My blood is pure, Dominic, but it’s also royal. As far as I know there are only two people left on earth with my blood type.”

    She reached back and touched the bite marks nearly gone from her shoulder, thanks to Dominic’s ministrations. “I’m far faster than he knows. Maybe as fast as or faster than he is.”

    So your plan is to confront him.

    She listened for the censure in his voice, but as always he sounded strictly neutral. “It’s the last thing he’ll expect. And he knows I’m his daughter now, that I carry the royal blood. As vile as it sounds, he will believe I’m his chance for an heir. He isn’t the kind of man to allow a little thing like incest to stop him.”

    You believe he will hesitate to kill you, that he will seek to incapacitate you in some manner.

    “Which will be another advantage.”

    He put his teeth into you, his claws.

    “But his bite was to my

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