Severine
by Jaden Sinclair
Beau Coup Publishing
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*********Blurb************
The
year is 9045 and the Nations control almost everything in the universe.
They have brought order to many planets and cultivated others, but
behind closed doors they’ve raided and pillaged the planet’s resources
for their own gain.
She is one of the many children who have been ripped
from their home for their selfish cause. Trained at a young age, she
was developed into just what the Nations hoped to accomplish. A perfect
weapon. But when control is lost and the weapon goes rogue, the Nations
learn firsthand just what they’ve created and just what their weapon
will do for her freedom and for a family she can never forget.
He is
sent to find her. Another trained and burned by the Nations, Byron
Suthland is hired to find the weapon, only he doesn’t want to find her
for them. He wants to find her for himself and bring back a woman, not a
weapon. Knowing she can kill him instantly means nothing, but caring
about her means everything.
Severine!
*********Excerpt**********
“And
where are you going to go?”
“Home.”
“Do you even know where home is?”
“No, but you do and you’re going to be kind enough to give me the
information.”
“It isn’t that easy.” She lost her temper and walked right
up to him, bringing the gun she had tucked behind her right out. He
didn’t fight her when she put her hand up to his throat, shoving him
back against the wall, her gun now pressed right between his eyes. “What
are you going to do, Severine?” Byron asked. “Shoot me?”
“If I have
to.”
“Then what kind of information will you get?”
They had a kind of
standoff. Both refusing to back down or look away. However, Byron made a
move, one she wasn’t expecting. His hand came up slowly, his body
didn’t move. With the back of his hand, knuckles only, he touched the
side of her face. Severine moved back.
“What are you doing?” She frowned
at him.
“Something I think hasn’t been done to you in a very long
time.”
“Don’t do that.”
His hand went back to her ear and into her hair.
“But I want to do this.”
When his face began to lower down to hers and
both of his hands moved to her waist, Severine changed the position of
the gun. She now pressed it up under his chin. “I can shoot you and keep
you alive.”
His face was mere inches from her own, lips so close she
could feel his breath upon her own. “And I think this will be well worth
getting shot.”
They touched. His lips touched her own gently, softly.
She had never been kissed before. The only type of touching she’d been
subjected to had always resulted in pain of some kind. Yet this wasn’t
painful, but it confused her none the less. He didn’t do much of
anything else either. In fact, if she wasn’t mistaken, she thought he
was trying to show her how to kiss. Why she let this happen, she
couldn’t answer. But Severine did give in mostly due to her curiosity.
She wanted to know what this felt like. What it was like to be held by
another and not made to suffer for it.
However, before anything more
could go on, the gun she held under his chin was taken from her hand and
the light kissing simply stopped. He pulled back enough to look her
once more in the eye, one arm still around her. Keeping eye contact with
her, Byron uncocked the gun, let it drop with his finger still on the
trigger so it would flip butt first back to her. “I’m not going to hurt
you, Severine. Ever. And I will help you find what you need, but not
with a gun at my head. Next time, just say please.”
She took the gun
from his hand, he let her go, and moved around her toward the steps,
taking them two at a time up, leaving her right where she stood.
*********Author Bio***********
Jaden
Sinclair lives in a small town in Kansas with her husband of eighteen
years, two boys and a few pets that keep her hopping. Between sports and
the animals it’s a wonder at times how she is able to keep the flow of
her writing going. But she does. She has many series in the works and
out for your enjoyment, and most known for the Shifter series. Between
werewolves, vampires, scifi, new worlds or simple romances, one never
really knows what will come out next. So to keep up with what she doing,
visit her website: www.jadensinclair.com
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