Page 126 of Night's Fall
“Fucking hell,” he said gruffly.
Gods!
“I’ve never seen the likes of her.She’svery unique,”Isaid primly.
And she was.
Gayle said she could be in commercials.
Cat said she knew artists who would wish to paint her, and sculptors who would wish to mold her.
Mr.Truelocksaid he was glad she surfaced in our time, for if she’d been born years ago, wars would be fought over her.
I just loved her.
I sawed off a piece of meat that was so tender, it needed no sawing (Idid that anyway) and shoved it in my mouth.
“Laura,”Alekseicalled.
“She’s small,”Isaid, aiming the words across the room, my mouth still full.Isnatched up my wine and took a sip, struggling to swallow because my meat needed more chewing, but by damn,Imanaged it. “Notdainty or anything.She’slike the size difference from me to you in terms of her and your creature.”
“Laura.”
“And yes, she’s shy.Shewas terrified of my father.”Icontinued talking to the lift. “Shecame out once when he was…”Ishook my head. “Anyway.Heshifted and beat the crap out of her too.”
“Darling, look at me.”
I turned to him.
He had her pic on myPalmaimed my way.
“She has your eyes.”
“Yes,”Iwhispered.
“They look like aquamarines.”
My throat suddenly felt very scratchy.
“She’s the most extraordinary thingI’veever seen,” he whispered.
Uh-oh.
“Aleksei,”Isaid soothingly.
“Someone tried to cut her out of you.Acreature can’t survive an excision.”
His eyes had shifted straight from a starry night and were glowing, and the veins were standing out in his neck.
And his forehead.
“Honey,”Iwhispered.
“Your father made her hide.Madeher shy.Madeher scared.”
I wrapped my fingers around his wrist and reached my other hand for myPalm.
“You need to chill, baby,”Isaid carefully, slipping myPalmfrom his fingers since he didn’t give it to me.
