Pure Blood (Time Spirit Trilogy, #3) Read Free

recognizing,
another member of a very secretive race was unlikely. But over the
years she figured she would have met more than one. Legend talked
about them being drawn to one another. Why had none ever been drawn
to her family?
    “I know she’s only trying to protect me, but
how am I supposed to understand her bizarre behavior if she won’t
tell me anything? The house is so tense at the moment, even Bryan’s
going crazy.”
    “I miss Bryan.” Gemma pouted for a second
then shook her head. “I just wish there was something I could do to
fix this. I wish I was normal.”
    Harrison stopped her in the sand and turned
her towards him, placing a hand on either side of her face.
    “You are perfect just the way you are. I like
that you’re not normal.” He kissed her nose.
    “I’m not perfect, Harrison.”
    “You’re perfect for me.” He grinned.
    She felt her insides bubble.
    “Tu es ma stella del mattino.” He kissed her
nose. “Tu es ma gioiello.” Then touched his lips softly against
hers.
    She brought her hand down with a hard thump
on his chest.
    “Ow!”
    Gemma didn’t regret it for a second. She had
been asking him for months and it had turned from a sweet gesture
to an irritation of dynamic proportions.
    “You have got to stop doing that!”
    “Doing what?”
    She demolished his feigned innocence with a
narrow glare.
    “If you don’t tell me what that means I’m
going to beat it out of you.”
    His body rumbled with laughter. “You wouldn’t
do that to me.”
    “Believe me, right now, I want to!” She
raised her fist.
    He saw straight through her empty threat, but
it did quell his laughter. Grabbing her clenched hand, he pulled
her towards him and wrapped his arms securely around her waist.
    “It means,” he cleared his throat, “you are
my morning star.” He kissed her nose. “You are my jewel.” He
touched his lips softly against hers.
    She felt her eyes glisten as the words sunk
in. It was the sweetest thing she’d ever heard… and she’d totally
heard it before! Her mouth opened with surprise.
    “What?”
    “I’ve heard that before.”
    “When? I’ve never said it in English.”
    “No, I mean, I’ve heard someone say it
before. They were talking about…” She tapped her head and paced
away from him. “It was in the past. I was with Dom? No, I was on my
own, but someone was there, he… that’s it!”
    She clicked her fingers and looked at
Harrison expectantly. He shrugged his shoulders and she rushed to
explain.
    “It was Nathaniel Clayton!” She beamed.
“Remember that trip I did to save that writer and then we ended up
rescuing those kids and he helped me out?”
    Harrison’s head bobbed, his eyes starting to
light with memory.
    “Anyway, he was talking about that woman that
had left him. He called her his morning star, his jewel and I
remember thinking it was so incredibly beautiful.” She turned to
look at her boyfriend and felt her insides turn to marshmallow.
“And now you’re saying it to me.” Reaching forward, she placed her
lips on his then pulled back as another thought hit her.
    “Did you just make it up or have you heard it
somewhere before? Like a poem or something?”
    Harrison shook his head with an embarrassed
smile. “Actually my mom used to say it to me when I was little,
before I went to sleep each night. Apparently she and my father
used to say it to each other. When I fell in love with you, I
really got what they meant.”
    She could see he was expecting her to blush
sweetly at his sappy last comment, but she couldn’t make herself do
it. She wanted to, but her brain was buzzing too intensely to give
him anything but a wide-eyed stare. Like a Rubik’s Cube she had
been working on for weeks, she saw the truths she had encountered
turn into place. All the colors now matched and she was studying a
reality she could barely wrap her brain around.
    “Gem?”
    “Your… father.”
    “What about him?”
    “Oh my gosh, that’s why he looked