Kagome sat up, staring down at her son. Lying curled between her and Sesshoumaru, Shin smiled toothily back. As in his humanoid youkai form, he had fangs and claws and an ethereal aura. But that was about where the similarities ended. There was no ruff of silvery-white fur—no silveriness to him at all. No stripes
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 9
The old woman’s voice was harsh and low, as though she didn’t use it much. She hadn’t paused in her chopping up of the fibrous, milky mystery vegetable in the slightest. Fernando wondered when she’d last left this shack, or had last had company here, for that matter. “I’m Carmencita’s son,” he said, “your grandson.
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 133 (Explicit)
Passing back beneath the waterfall with Sesshoumaru, Kagome felt giddy, light as air. She giggled as he scooped her up and leapt with a single bound from the pool to the alcove high above. Not even Inuyasha could jump that far in one go. As Sesshoumaru set her on her feet on the golden floorweave,
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 132 (Explicit)
Kagome’s chest clenched at Sesshoumaru’s choice of words. She didn’t know properly how to take it, or even if she should. Hand-in-hand, she followed him beneath the falls anyway. The iridescent spray pounded down upon her head and shoulders, pleasurably warm and crisply fragrant. She heard a silvery sound as she passed, like the faint
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 8
After a few more meandering conversations, Fernando found himself standing before his grandmother’s home, a thatched-roof, dilapidated shack at the edge of the jungle. Little more than a dirt path had led up to it—a goat path, he saw now. In the bare earthen yard, a wiry, slack-teated nanny and her gaggle of skinny kids
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 131
Whatever reservations Shin had about the water, he got over them quickly enough—especially when Sesshoumaru slid into the pool and splashed him. Clutching her son to her, Kagome yelled, splashing him back. Shin thrashed, growling in her hold. When Kagome let him go, he transformed at once into his humanoid youkai form and shot off
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 7
The rest of Fernando’s journey proceeded without much incident. Having lived more or less on the streets as a boy, he knew to travel lightly and inconspicuously. He kept as little in the way of money or valuables on him as possible. Physically, he caught the eye. There was nothing he could do about that.
In Rhythm (Teaser)
Juggling an armful of hard seltzers, Melanie shouldered her way through the throng of festival goers, shouting and stumbling as she went. The wait had been so long at the drink stand that the concert was nearly at an end. It was well past midnight now—pitch-black and muggy and roaring loud. Melanie hastened as best
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 130
Kagome couldn’t deny she was itching to check out that heated pool at the center of the castle—’slumbering’ youkai presiding or not. Despite the cold weather, she’d gotten sweaty from the various trials of the day, and she wanted to wash up before dinner. No longer comatose from gorging himself on blood-plums, Shin was raring
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 6
II It took Fernando the better part of a week to reach his mother’s hometown from Bogotá. Part of the reason for this delay was that on his first night away from the hacienda, Juan Francisco caught up with him in the town of Granada. Flush with this small victory against his wife María Luisa—and