Knight's Absolution (Knights of Hell #5) - Sherilee Gray Page 0,22

headboard and curled his fingers around her wrist, his thumb swiping over the inside. Goose bumps lifted all over her. How could that feel so good? It was such a small, insignificant touch.

How was it that she could feel this?

She assessed herself, her body, her mind. Something was most definitely different. She’d been too afraid to believe it, but there was no denying it now. More of her human emotions were waking up, and it wasn’t just that. Her body, it wasn’t…numb. Not anymore.

“He was there when we arrived. He was gone by the time my brothers moved out,” Gunner said and gave her wrist another of those gentle swipes of his thumb.

His touch was…distracting.

“He could still be there.” She needed to find him.

“My brothers searched the place from top to bottom, then burned it to the ground. He wasn’t there.” Another swipe. More goose bumps. “It’s only been a few days. He’s probably lying low. I’m sure you’ll hear from him soon.”

Luna stared at the huge male. “Days?”

“You’ve been feeding and sleeping, recovering for three days.” His gaze slid over her. “You’re looking…” His nostrils flared. “So much better now, love. How’s your leg?”

A shiver slid through her when he called her love this time. “You fixed it?”

He dragged a hand down his face, mouth flattening. “I know someone. He was called in. It had to be re-broken. Thankfully, you healed fast. My blood helped.”

She had no recollection of it, of any of it. She opened her mouth, then closed it.

“So Spencer? He was the one texting Grace?”

She shook off the tingles dancing over her skin, the way this male affected her, the way he drew her, and tried to focus on his questions. “I gave him the phone right after Grace gave me her number. I knew I had a punishment coming for what I did. I told Spencer to destroy it. He obviously kept it and used it when he got concerned. Neither of us knew if I’d survive this time.”

“Your brother is dead, by the way. He gained his powers early, which was a boon, but he continued to ask for you. Where’s my sister? Let me see my sister. It became tiresome, so I removed his head from his shoulders.”

Pain sliced through her, but not from hunger. It was emotional pain, the same pain she’d felt in the basement when Sir told her what he’d done.

Suddenly, she was finding it hard to sit still.

All this time, she’d done Sir’s dirty work, let him control and use her—and it was all for nothing.

She thought she was protecting her brother—but Ronan had already been dead.

A growl rumbled from Gunner and she jumped, flinching at the rage etched into his handsome face. “You’ve been locked in that fucking room since then?”

She understood anger. That’s all she’d felt the last year. And she’d dealt with angry males before, a lot of them. Demons were angry twenty-four seven, but the look in Gunner’s eyes froze her to the bone. She stilled. Sudden movements were never a good idea around volatile males.

“No,” she said in as soothing a voice as she could muster. “I was released after two weeks, but then I…did something to anger him again.” She didn’t elaborate, didn’t want to tell him she was punished again because she protected him, in case that angered him more. “I was in there a month this last time.”

Gunner’s eyes turned black and he growled again, so low and vicious she was surprised her heart didn’t spontaneously start beating again, just so it could race like crazy in her chest.

“A month?” he hissed, his thick fingers curling into tight fists. “He left you there, suffering with a broken leg, without food or water or blood for a month?”

She bit her lips together and nodded again.

“How did you break your leg, Luna?” His voice was smooth, deadly. Demanding.

Demanding she answer. “It was part of my punishment.”

His face turned red, and a vein in the side of his neck bulged.

So this was what fear felt like?

Chapter 7

Gunner locked his muscles so he didn’t explode out of the bed and tear his room down. The tornado of rage inside him needed an outlet, and the fucker he wanted to rip to shreds was still in hiding.

When he’d realized Luna’s leg had healed wrong, he’d called Jack to come and take a look. Jack was a doctor and demi who had helped them a lot over the years.

The way her leg had looked, the pain she

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