Story
While coming to terms
with diverse passions and consuming emotions, Raina and Steel are stalked by an
assailant and discover a joint legacy that could end in their deaths.
(Erotic Suspense/BDSM)
Excerpt
“He bears the mark,
Mistress Nubula,” the Neanderthal announced as
he released Titane.
Spinning about Titane
clenched his fist. “And just what in hell was
that all about?”
“I needed to know for
sure,” responded the cool, sensual voice of a
woman with a hint of a
Scandinavian accent. Titane caught his breath as a
cloaked figure stepped
into the cell. A hood fell away, revealing Nordic
blonde hair, scarlet
lips and eyes cold as ice. Titane had never seen a more
beautiful woman. Too much
arrogance haunted her countenance, too much
experience. Besides,
despite the image of youth, there was something
synthetic about her. He
suspected she was probably far older than she
appeared.
“I’m Titane Hunter. What
do you want of me?” he said in an
astonishingly controlled
tone, as if they were meeting in a boardroom. He
braced his feet apart
and held out his dirt-encrusted hand, fingernails rimmed
with the filth of his
imprisonment. He knew the only things more appalling
than his personal stench
was his mussed hair and untrimmed beard. Still, he
stood there, hoping he
didn’t break down and beg for mercy. He wasn’t
proud of the thought,
but if he had to spend another few months incarcerated,
he’d surely go insane.
He’d passively crawl as if a submissive and kiss his
d’trix’s boots to avoid
it and that sort of behavior wasn’t part of his nature.
“I know who you are,”
she said. “I named you well before you were
taken.”
“What!”
“I named you well before
you were taken.”
“Taken?” His face
scrunched with utter confusion. “Named me?”
“Ja,” she said.
“Ja?”
“As a child along with
your brother, Steel. We were taken from
here?”
“Ja.”
“Where is here?”
“Home.”
“No, home is back in the
hills of Pennsylvania. This is a cold damn
dungeon.”
She smiled. It held no
warmth. “You are as dramatic as your father.”
“You know my father.”
Again, the cold numbing
smile emerged. “Intimately.”
He didn’t respond, still
fighting the fear that she’d soon be gone,
leaving him to flounder
in puzzlement without ever knowing why he had
been abducted. Yet, he
couldn’t bring himself to demand any answers. The
reality of the time
within the prison walls had taken something from him
almost galvanizing him
with trepidation. He never thought himself a coward,
yet he certainly wasn’t
acting like the man he generally was. A distant part of
him remembered,
remembered how he could take command. He was slapped
into a confused wobble
by her claims.
Titane mustered some of
his old strength. However, before he could
speak, she further
blindsided him. “It is time you knew who I am.”
He lifted a brow as if
in compensation for a verbal response.
She grinned. “Again, you
show your father’s traits.”
“You knew him?” he
reiterated.
“He, too, acted as if
fear couldn’t touch him. We were married.
Though not matched at
birth, he had charm to keep things amusing.”
“You were married to my
father?” Titane couldn’t help blurting out.
“Yes.”
“You lie.”
“Married and bore him
children. You and Steel are two of them.”
“No,” Titane stated,
fierce with emotions he couldn’t discern.
“It’s a truth.”
He gave a dismissive
glare.
“Deal as you will with
that.” She turned toward the exit, but
continued to speak. “You
will spend another night here, but it’ll be the last of
your imprisonment. By
tomorrow I will force the Sire, Zinc, to either
reinstate you as Rune,
or kill you.”
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