Hidden by the Gargoyle by C.C. Wood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: C.C. Wood
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal Erotica
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The ride was quiet. But that wasn’t unusual when I was with a certain gruff
gargoyle.
Since I’d turned seventeen, I hadn’t been much of a talker around Dax. I
was always so worried I would say something embarrassing.
As I stared out the window, I remembered the times before I became a
teenager and realized that I liked Dax as more than a friend. I’d never been
a chatter box, but Dax had always managed to bring me out of my shell just
a bit.
When I’d come to Devil Springs at the age of eleven, I’d been in the
throes of the deepest grief I’d ever experienced. Both my parents had died
in a car wreck. Apparently, all the safety and protection charms in the world
couldn’t protect witches from a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
I remembered walking through the days in the fog of sadness and
silence, missing my parents so fiercely that I felt as though I was dying.
Minerva had done everything she could to ease my transition but, after
six months, I wasn’t getting better.
Until Dax had come over to fix her gutters.
I’d never met a gargoyle before, so the novelty had pierced the cloud of
pain hovering over me. Barely.
It was his calm, quiet presence that had eased me. He seemed so strong
and big, as though nothing could hurt him. Especially when he’d partially
shifted to allow his wings to come out.
He’d asked me to hand him tools as he worked on the gutters.
Sometimes, he worked in silence, but occasionally, he would ask me a
question. Nothing intrusive or deeply personal. He asked about my favorite
book. My favorite color. A couple of times, he told me stories about my
aunt, Minerva. Things that she never would have told me herself, yet they
made me smile.
After he was done fixing the gutters, he’d come back to replace a few of
the shutters on the house that had been damaged by a hailstorm and he
didn’t have to ask for my help. I would drift outside when he arrived and
stay until he left.
Between his quiet strength and Minerva’s gentle and loving efforts, I’d
finally emerged from beneath the fog of grief and begun living again.
I’d always felt like I could talk to him about anything, until I reached
the age of seventeen and my eyes had suddenly opened to the opposite sex.
My platonic love for him had morphed into something I didn’t fully
understand. I felt hot and flushed around him. Tongue-tied. It took me a
while to realize that my physical reactions were attraction. Probably
because I’d never experienced them before. None of the boys my age
interested me. In fact, most of my classmates, male and female, didn’t
interest me. Books did. They were my companions far more than the people
around me.
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