Torrent of Tears (Scourge Survivor Series Book 3)(87)

“Your best, neelan. That is all you can do.”

Lost in the impossibility of my life, the current tugged on my sopping gown, inviting me into the depths. I looked to the riverbank. It was empty. Had Cameron truly been there or was my mind so far off that insanity conjured him?

Strong arms wrapped around my shoulders as Cowboy hugged me from behind. He rested his chin on top of my head and exhaled. “You're scaring the stuffing out of me right now, sweetheart, just so you know. Yelling at the riverbank is one thing, but I don’t like you pondering a midnight swim. And FYI, Weres can’t swim. We sink. So, if it’s all the same to you, how’s about we get our feet back on dry ground?”

He turned my shoulders and led me back toward the bank.

“Apologies. I am so embarrassed . . . weary . . . and . . .”

“Lost.” He stopped us in the shallows and set my hair behind my shoulder. “You’re a little lost right now, Lia, but other than your pretty dress getting waterlogged, there’s no damage done. Just you and me taking an unexpected stroll in the river.”

I looked down at the two of us standing drenched in our clothes and would have laughed had I not been crying. “They hate me, Cowboy. Everyone I ever loved despises me.”

A shadow fell over Cowboy’s gaze as if he felt the ache of my pain himself. “That’s their loss.”

“And not true, Lia.” Standing on the bank with his mother, Aust offered me a hand out of the water. His ice-blue cat’s eyes held so much compassion, I wondered how anyone could miss the gentle soul he was. “We heard what Durian and the others said to you. If anyone knows the cut of Highborne judgment, it is me, sweeting. The attack was not your fault. Anyone with an ounce of Elven logic should see that.”

Elora wrapped her arm around my shoulder. “It seems we have all outgrown this village. Let us leave this narrow-minded aristocracy behind once and for always.”





JL Madore is a romance novelist of many genres: fantasy, paranormal, timeslip historical, and contemporary. She loves to twist Alpha heroes and kick-ass heroines into chaotic, hilarious, magical situations and make them really work for their Happily Ever After.

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