Read The Travelers: Book One Online
Authors: Sennah Tate
The Travelers: Book One (14 page)
Gemma nodded, understanding her silent point.
“
Okay, so how do you know all of this
?
”
Alin
a’
s face fell; her eyes suddenly looked hollow and lifeless.
Izzy rested a hand on top of Alin
a’
s.
“
That gu
y
—”
“
Preston Waters
,
” Alina hissed.
“
Right, Preston Waters was using Alinaas his Evoker
.
”
“
I do
n’
t know how, but he corrupted the bond and used it as a weapon against me
.
”
“
S
o
… he was your Traveler
?
”
Alinafrowned
,“
No, I do
n’
t think so. I think my Traveler was frenzied a long time ago. I think I may be immune to it and that made me a good candidate for Presto
n’
s nefarious plot
.
”
Gemm
a’
s heart hurt with the pain in Alin
a’
svoice. Her eyes look like the
y’
d lost hope long ago, but somehow she still found the strength to soldier on.
“
Without me,
I’
m not sure what h
e’
ll do now. I do
n’
t think h
e’
ll take the loss of an easy power source wel
l
…” she said.
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“
What was so important that you had to drag me away from everyone else
?
” Carson asked, his arms crossed in front of his chest.
Ty typed away on his keyboard, bringing up a number of different windows.
“
I just thought you should see this. I wanted to tell you about it earlier but there were mor
e
… pressing matters. My observations today have raised my alarms again though
.
”
“
What on Earth are you talking about
?
”
“
Do you remember that surveillance video you asked me to look at
?
”
“
Yes? But it does
n’
t matter anymore. We found Izzy
.
”
“
Well, tha
t’
s what I thought at first, too. It did
n’
t seem to fit, bu
t
… well, you should take a look
,
” Ty said.
Carson rested his palms on the desk, leaning forward to examine the computer monitor.
“
The man that was talking to Isabel, the one that Gemma was worried had something to do with your siste
r’
s disappearance
?
”
He played the video and paused it on just the right frame.
Carso
n’
s jaw dropped and his blood pressure erupted like Old Faithful.
“
Aaron
,
” he growled.
Isabel is ashamed of how the frenzy affected her. She has memories of lashing out at her friends, attacking innocent people and… sharing a kiss with Aaron. A kiss he swears never happened.
Preston Waters and his henchmen grow in strength and numbers every day, but Aaron and Izzy can’t stop arguing over their past long enough to discover the raw power of their connection.
Will they be able to overcome the pain they’ve inflicted on one another to fight the evil that endangers them all?
All of my life I hungered for only one thing: revenge. I wanted to make my father pay for the terrible things he’d done to me and my mother that left her dead and me homeless as a child. That was my life’s only mission. Until I met Marcie. She saved my life in more ways than one and replaced my desire for vengeance with desires of another kind entirely.
My life was never all that great, but it was mine. Things were okay; I had a decent job, a boyfriend and a place to call home. That all changed one day when I lost my job, found out my boyfriend was cheating on me and wound up looking for a place to sleep on the cold city streets. When I heard someone in trouble, I sprang to action without thinking of the consequences. A few hours later I woke up in a hospital room with a grateful stranger at my bedside and a doctor telling me I was pregnant.
The moment I saw her, I knew I had to have her. I didn't know what it was about her; maybe it was those pouty red lips, her biting sense of humor or maybe it was the effortless way she handled my Jag that made me unbearably hard. What I expected to be a one-night stand became something so much bigger. All I wanted was every last bit of Aubrey, but she was intent on keeping her real life a secret from me. Add to that my long-lost delinquent sister moving in with me and my life just took a sudden turn to crazytown.
Everything in me told me that I needed Tanner. He was smart, witty, charming, incredibly sexy and able to do things to my body that I didn’t previously know possible. Hell, he even shared an interest in cars with me. If I had met him any other day, maybe things would have turned out differently. Unfortunately, I met him on the day that I was engaged to a man I’d never met, and that complicated things a bit.
All my life I dreamed of the perfect husband, the perfect wedding, and the perfect life. It's what I was born to do -- be a good wife and mother -- and all I ever wanted. My sister's eighteenth birthday meant that she, too, was on the look-out for a husband. How could a curvy girl like me compete with my model thin sister? There was no chance of anyone noticing me with Sharilyn around -- or so I thought.
I never thought that when the time came for me to walk down the altar I would be looking for an escape route. I never imagined that the man I would marry would be surrounded by dark rumors of a shady past.
All I wanted was a way out of this disaster. The only thing I have to do is resist my ridiculously sexy husband for three months. No problem.
For twenty years I've been an outcast -- a social pariah. Any invitations I received were solely for novelty's sake; no one wanted to know the truth, they just wanted the danger of being near Tristan Fulmore, the caged lion ready to pounce.
But that wasn't me at all. I didn't think anyone would ever be able to see past all of the lies and rumors. I didn't even want to fantasize about it when I knew it would never happen. That was, until I met Marilee.
Most men wouldn't be intrigued by a woman that slapped him in the face. But I wasn't most men. I had to have the firecracker blond if it was the last thing I did.
I got my ring on her finger and the ceremony went off without a hitch... Now I just had to find a way to get my delectable bride into my bed. Piece of cake.
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