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Authors: Marie Hall
Sable Book 1 of Chaos Time (Chaos Time Series) (15 page)
A tsking sound behind her made her twirl and then she was pinned to the floor, his strong thighs forced hers open and his face was turned into a macabre mask of fangs and hate.
“You won’t betray me. Us,” he snarled, his spittle landed hot on her lips. “You know what will happen if you do. You’ll never be able to go through with it, because in the end, you’re just not strong enough.”
She bucked, writhing and twisting but his grip was absolute.
“No,” she denied hotly, “no, I’ve learned this is the only way.”
He slapped her, punched her. “You’re pathetic. Weak. Useless.” His words punctuated each snap of flesh against flesh.
She moaned, denying it. His eyes flashed and what he did next laced her soul with horror and she screamed.
Then he was quieting her with his toxic kiss. The one that drained her of thought, of fight, of anything but the primal need to have more and more. But like a parasite, all he did was take and take, giving nothing back, and each time he took she became less and less...
“Sable, wake up!” his words were sharp, heavy and she kicked at him. Her foot connected with his shin. She was blinded with her fears, lost to her vision, and Dragden’s venom. Tears were coursing down her face.
Rough hands shook her. She screamed and slashed her nails down a whisker-roughened cheek.
“Damnit girl,” a growl and then warm, hot lips pressed to hers and for a second she wanted to bite the mouth that invaded hers. But then she was moaning because she wasn’t losing herself to venom, these lips were soft and giving and she knew she’d die if he stopped. The hands that’d just been clawing him were now squeezing his shoulders, gripping them like a lifeline. Her body burned, her heat trickled out and spread like wildfire, wrapping them in its embrace.
He groaned and shifted closer, pressing his hard body along the length of hers and she...stopped thinking. Lost in his touch, his scent. His tongue slipped inside her heat and she tasted cinnamon candy and it was...
Slayde!
Suddenly she remembered where she was and who she was with. She shoved him off her. Covering her mouth, not because she was embarrassed but because the feelings he brought out in her were so intense, too much. Too frightening and real.
She wiped her face off with the back of her sleeve and studied him. He was panting, staring at her in confusion. Large twin welts ran down the length of his cheeks, but he didn’t seem to notice. His eyes were opaque white, his skin glowed. And he just looked so yummy.
“What was—”
Sable wrapped her arms around herself, leaned against the wall and urged her tree to give her some much needed clarity. “I know where we’re going,” her voice cracked.
She shivered, ignoring the irrational need to pull him back to her and pick up where they’d left off. But she couldn’t forget the same mad desperation of the visions between her and Dragden. Was her phoenix a slut? Ready to throw herself at any man? That wasn’t Sable. Would never be her.
He straightened his shoulders; the air between them grew thick and cold. His look was frosty and his question to the point. “Where?”
She licked her lips. “Tenochitlan.”
He looked blank.
“Back in time to Aztec Mexico.”
Acknowledgements
This is the first part of a brand new series I wrote nearly a year ago. It’s a story unlike any I’ve written, it basically breaks all the rules of writing and that’s probably why I like it so much! It’s been so much fun working on this project and the great part is, the next book comes out next month! I couldn’t do any of what I do without a great family behind me and a whole bunch of supportive fans, so to all of you… THANKS!
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Night Series (Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements)
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Chaos Time Series (YA Fantasy with Romance)
Sable, Book 1
Slayde, Book 2 (Coming Dec ’13)
Slayde has seen the fall of humanity, the disappearing and shifting lands the people call the Great Rift. Now part of a rag tag group made up of an insane asylum inmate, a depressed healer, and a mysterious man who calls himself Hunter, he knows he should walk away so that he can live to fight another day, it’s what he’s always done. What he should do now. There’s not a chance in hell of saving the world from the ravages of nuclear fallout. And he would leave, if it wasn’t for the fact that he’d met Sable. A woman child who makes him feel something he’s never felt before. But the path to redemption won’t be easy and there’s a very real chance none of them will survive what it takes to undo the wrongs that have been wrought in ancient Mexico…
About Marie Hall:
Marie loves books that make you think, or feel something. Preferably both. And while she's a total girly girl and loves glitter and rainbows, she's just as happy when she's writing about the dark underbelly of society. Well, if things like zombies, and vampires, and werewolves, and mermaids existed. (Although she has it on good authority that mermaids do in fact exist, because the internet told her so.)
She's married to the love of her life, a sexy beast of a caveman who likes to refer to himself as Big Hunk. She has two awesome kids, lives in Hawaii, loves cooking and occasionally has been known to crochet. She also really loves talking about herself in the third person.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 2: We're not in Kansas anymore...
Chapter 3: Will the real Sable Ray please stand up?
Chapter 5: This way lies madness
Chapter 6: The hole in the ground
Chapter 8: Betrayal in the dreaming
Chapter 10: When the healing kills
Chapter 11: That’s a funny joke…oh wait, you’re not kidding