EXCERPT: FIRE'S KISS by Brittany Pate

Jun 6, 2018
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Enjoy reading an excerpt from chapter four of FIRE'S KISS by Brittany Pate.

FIRE'S KISS by BRITTANY PATE

EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 4

“Are you done?” he asked. She nodded. “That was better. Your anger just might save your life.”

“Let me go,” she snapped.

He ignored her. “Your skin is so warm.”

“That happens when I get angry.” Embyr fidgeted, uncomfortable with the way he studied her face.

“Good. Use that.” He released her and stood.

Embyr climbed to her feet with as much dignity as she could muster, brushing her pants off. “What has Atrarius done to make you hate him so much?”

“He took someone from me.”

His expression never changed, but those cold eyes hardened just a bit. If she hadn’t spent years observing people in the tavern, she might have missed it altogether. Had she managed to find a crack in his façade of Death?

“Who was it?” she asked softly, desperate to see if there might be a man hiding under that mask.

“It does not matter,” he replied. “It happened long ago.”

“How long?” Embyr prodded, unwilling to let this opportunity pass. Whatever happened to make him hate so fiercely had to be terrible.

“Eight hundred years.”

The reply startled her and Embyr took a step back, nearly falling over a chair. Her mind spun at the implication. She’d wrongly assumed he was merely human, that his immunity to fire was some odd effect of the hellhound shifter.

What a foolish mistake. All these years spent pretending to be human and she couldn’t even recognize when someone else was doing the same.

“You assumed the Horsemen chose a new Death when the old one died?” He chuckled at her nod. The sound lacked any sort of mirth and left her cold. “I am the same Death who has led the Horsemen since the moment of their birth and I have hunted Atrarius for the last eight hundred years.”

“What are you?” The roar of the fire nearly drowned out her words.

“A monster.”

He walked toward her, mask drawing her attention like never before. Gone was any hint of the man she thought she’d seen, replaced by a walking, talking nightmare. Embyr forced herself to meet his gaze and found a hatred there that ran deep, devoid of a gentler side to appeal to.

“Listen well, Embyr,” he said. “All the stories you’ve ever heard of the atrocities committed by the Horsemen were all me. Every single one. I do not deserve your pity. Give me your hate, your malice, for all the things I have done to make Atrarius look like a child. Do not forget for an instant that I am evil, and you may live to see the end of our association.”

BOOK INFO

FIRE'S KISS

By Brittany Pate

Fiery Seas Publishing

November 21, 2017

Paranormal Romance Fiction

Embyr tends her tavern while keeping her dangerous parentage a secret, until she's attacked by a hellhound and saved by one of the most feared men in history. For the last eight hundred years, Ryder McLennon, the infamous leader of Death's Horsemen, has used his army to hunt the vampire who killed his wife. He's earned a reputation as a murderous madman. But in Embyr, he discovers something that could turn the tide of battle in his favor. Her control over fire can reduce an enemy to ash and her flippant disregard of him heats his blood in ways no one else ever has. She's beautiful, powerful and completely different from her violence-loving brethren. Embyr finds herself thrust into a war she wants no part of, targeted by a vicious vampire because of her cooperation with Ryder. As she learns to wield her demonic powers without letting the madness of her race overcome her, she also has to fight her attraction to a killer bent on her seduction.

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