[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
wanted to breed with him died. He had the most unusual eyes, more unusual than your
beautiful eyes, Mistress. His held a rainbow and changed with his every mood. He had to
fight to keep his feelings hidden as much as I had to fight to keep my emotions from
showing. Being the two most unusual men in the Brotherhood, we became good friends. He
was the perfect man to tell me that my son was healthy and was already doing his duty by
protecting his sibling.
They didn t know that you carried twins? How could such advanced medical technology
miss a little thing like that? How far along were you into your pregnancy?
I was about a month into my gestation period when I found out about the twins. The original
tests were performed at my mother s insistence when she suspected what Catla had done.
They can tell the sex of a child that quickly? Kendall eyes almost glazed at the thought.
Imagine never having to return baby clothes because you bought the wrong color or having to
argue over baby names, only to find out you picked the name for the wrong sex.
Usually, but Spark hid his sister well. I believe he was able to cloak her with the energies
that he possesses. But Catla never knew what her egg had produced for soon after a servant
came to inform me of the death of my life-mate. Because there was no female heir, I was to
return to the house of my mother until the time my son had reached maturity and a proper Ice
Continent bride was found. My mother was to seize control of the House of Ice until such a
time.
But you carried a female; Ember, and by all rights, she should be the next leader.
My life-mate was murdered, Mistress. I would not let my child face the same fate without
doing all that I could to save her.
You hid Ember s existence from them. Kendall s eyes filled with understanding. This man
truly loved his children and would do anything to protect them. This was proven time and
time again.
Indeed, Mistress. I was planning on returning to the Brotherhood then traveling to some
distant part of the Wind continent with my children. I was as much an outsider in my
mother s house as I was when I was a child. I held the same rank as my father, but it differed
because my power belonged only to the House of Ice. I was again a problem to be dealt with
and I did not want my daughter caught in a power struggle. It was better for all concerned if I
disappeared with my children.
So why did you come here to Earth. Wouldn t it have been safer for you to go to a lost
sector on your planet than to a strange New World?
Someone, a spy sent by my mother no doubt, overheard the plans I was making with Devo.
He was willing to travel with me because he found himself pregnant. With the woman who
ordered him impregnated dead, his child would have no house to claim it and that is a serious
dishonor among the women of my world. His child would never be anything but the lowest of
servants.
On the night before we were to start our journey, my father came to my room and explained
that an Execution Squad had been dispatched to hunt me down. My sire knows all that
happens in his domain and knew of the female child that I carried. He had made plans for me
that I knew nothing about.
You must hide, Flame. His sire told him as he led them through a complex labyrinth that
ran beneath his mother s great house. Go to this planet, Earth. I have programmed the
coordinates in the flight computer. They are a primitive planet deemed unworthy to know of
our existence, but in most places men are deemed equal to women. His sire winked at him.
Such a barbarous place is beneath our planet s notice. Go and protect your children, my
son. Protect them better than I was able to protect you. I will aid Devo with his plans and you
both will have a chance to live a peaceful existence.
That was the last time that I saw my sire, Mistress. I am not even sure that he is still alive for
protecting me and aiding in my escape. Now I am not a man to my people, Mistress. I can
serve no purpose beyond training and protecting my children. I can understand your pain,
Mistress, but I also know that you cannot blame yourself for the actions of others. Am I
responsible for Catla s death or the whole system of government on Testrios? Maybe this
Doctor Dick was not the right man for you. Ultimately, we are all responsible for our own
happiness.
When put into that perspective, Kendall could not help but help agree with Flame. Maybe
Richard wasn t man enough to accept her the way she was. The ability to bear children was
not what being a woman was all about. Little girls became women then they accepted
themselves for what they were and faced their responsibilities willingly. Kendall had always
excelled at taking care of business as well as she could and she had long ago accepted not
being able to have children.
It had been hard for her, who wanted a large family, to accept. After her parent s death, the
victims of a drunk driver on a cold rainy night, she and her sister became a family of two. But
having an older sister to share her sadness and triumphs with didn t lessen the pain of
knowing that she would never be able to create a large family of her own. She could have
adopted, but then she still would never know the joy of having a new life flutter inside her
stomach for the first time. She would never know how it felt to carry and nourish a tiny life
growing inside of her body, or feel herself swell with new life. She would never be able to
swap first-hand tales of the horrors of labor and how it felt to see your creation, your child,
take it s very first breath and make it s presence known to the world. But she had come to
grips with that pain and she would survive Richard too.
What happened to your sister? Was she made to answer for her crimes against you? Flame
asked. Has she come to understand that she also had the right to refuse the use of your
property?
Kendall was just starting to coming to terms with her womanhood, when he brought up her
sister. She thought back to all the time that she had stood beside the woman and watched her
finesse and flirt her way out of trouble. Her sister got whatever she wanted whenever she
wanted it and knew how to use her ultra feminine charm to help her get ahead in life.
After her parent s death, it was Kendall who made all the arrangements while her sister
simpered at the family s attorney who fell all over himself to offer her condolences.
It was her sister who could, with a flash of her tear-filled eyes. Get them the best tables at
restaurants or get out of speeding tickets.
No man had ever turned her sister down when she was after him, and amazingly enough,
jilted women took her side when their boyfriends were caught in compromising positions
with the beautiful gentlewoman with the heart-wrenching eyes.
Her sister had never taken responsibility for anything in her life and never regretted a
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
