Freeing a Tiger's Soul (Tiger Series) Read Free

he wept softly for his brother.  There was no one who could lessen his pain.
    Liam shook his head at his wife as she started to make her way to the weeping warrior.
    “Nay lass.  Le t him have his grief.  Do not fear.  H e will not allow it to rule him.  Let him alone now to cope with it in his own way.”
    “He needs comfort Liam.”
    “That he does lass, but that is not something ye can give him.”
    Cara nodded grudgingly understanding that it would be too hard for her mate to watch her comfort another man, especially one with no mate.  She smil ed faintly at her daughter, Angelica as she passed.
    “Mam, ye cannot expect that I will leave him there to suffer alone.  It is cruel.  Evan has ever been as family and I will go to him if you do not.”
    A low warning growl rumbled in the room, but Angelica refused to acknowledge it.  She had been angry at Deaglan for days and ignored him completely.
    She made her way into the Baily and knelt beside Evan who was still weeping bitterly.  She placed her small hand on his naked back.
    “Evan.  You should not grieve so.  He is not condemned.  He will be well cared for in the tower room.  We will find a way to help him.  I swear it to you.  There must be a way.  Krisi is of the Fairborn.  She will find a way to help him.  She is his mate, you know she is.  You mustn’t lose hope.”
    Evan looked up at Angelica and was struck with her beauty.  Her hair shown as fire in the early morning light and her eyes were a deep amber.
    He cleared his throat, embarrassed that she had seen his weakness.
    “I thank ye lass.  Yer words are a comfort to me.”
    Angelica threw her arms around Evan and he accepted her embrace until she was pulled from his grasp by an enraged Deaglan.
    Evan didn’t get the time to apologize before Angelica launched a small fist at the warrior’s jaw.  It connected with a smack and Deaglan’s eyes widened.
    “Keep your great meaty fists off of me!  I will not allow you to handle me!”
    Angelica jerked free of Deaglan’s grasp and rushed into the cool interior of the keep.
    Evan found himself chuckling when his eyes met those of his friend.
    “What heave ye done to rile her so?”  Evan asked.
    Deaglan’s cheeks mottled with a faint redne ss and Eva n only laughed harder.
    “’Tis nay my fault.  The lass is too headstrong for her own good.   I have done naught, but be a respectable mate. ”  Deaglan insisted.
    Evan pulled himself to his feet unembarrassed by his nudity although Deaglan had covered himself with a long cloak .  “I see that you will not tell me what it is she is being headstrong about.”
    Deaglan looked sheepish as he stared at the ground.
    “She wants to change.”  He confided in a low voice.
    “She is only fifteen.  She cannay expect ye to take her at such an age.  She will need to grow a bit don’t ye think?  Three more years at the very least I would think.”
    “Aye.  I agree with ye.  Liam says five, but I cannay wait that long for her.  She is driving me mad.”
    “Ye have not touched her have ye?  She will be worse when she begins to awaken.”
    “Aye.  I have tried to keep her at arm’s length, but she is insistent that there is no need for us to wait.  We are mated as firmly as we can be without the act being done, but she is insisting on that as well. I fear Liam would have my balls on a spike if I cannot control myself.”
    “Aye he would.  Perhaps ye should mark her.  It would give her a measure of change if not the full ability.”
    Deaglan shook his head.  “Liam will nay allow it.  He thinks that the act and the marking should be done at the same time.  He was furious at me for a week for even suggesting it.  He swore to send me to the wolves for a whole year if I asked again.”
    Evan laughed at the truth in the statement as he walked inside and up to his chamber to dress thankful for once that he did not have a young mate to tend to .

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    Krisi sat in her the chamber