Free Fate Of The Minotaur (Her Dragon's Bane 5) by Harmony Raines

whole of his life before. Sybil didn’t have the words to tell him that it was the same for her, that she had shied away from people for so long, kept herself away from humanity so to avoid looking at herself as different. Now, she had found someone who was as different as she was. And she felt as if she had found her soul mate. The one she could trust and depend on over all others.
    “Fin,” she said at last. “How did you find me?”
    He moved off her to lie beside her, his arm possessively draped over her. “Tara.”
    “Tara knows that I came here?”
    “Yes.”
    “So she knows what is going to happen?”
    “No. She can only see it from our side. Not the vampires. She doesn’t know your prophecy. Although I told her what you told me. It seemed right.”
    “And she let me come? Do I die here?” she asked quickly. “And surely she wouldn’t have sent you if she thought you would die here.”
    “Tara is a selfish creature. But I do not think she would send us to our deaths. I believe she made sure I came here to save you. You have to remember that she has lived with her gift, and been alone because of it, just like you. So I think she will make sure you live.”
    “Did she tell you how it would end?”
    “After I told her about your dream, she thought for a moment. Then she said she had preparations to make.”
    “Preparations?”
    “Who knows with Tara? The best we can do is deal with this vampire. Are you sure you can trust him?”
    “Yes. In my dream, another vampire killed him, and then the vampires fell to their knees to follow a vampire who goes on to enslave the whole of the human race. I don’t think I need to embellish that statement: needless to say, there is a lot of blood and a lot of deaths.”
    “And by helping this Lord Angus, this will change?”
    “I don’t know. I mean, it will change, but I don’t know if it will be enough to quench the uprising against humans.”
    “I wonder if this vampire who kills Angus is the same one who tried to break the truce with the dragons.”
    “I don’t know. I’m not like Tara; my gift only works when it wants to.”
    He kissed her head. “You should rest. I’ll keep watch over you.”
    “But you’ll be tired too.”
    “I will not sleep while that blood sucker is in the same house. He might be the better of two evils, but he is still evil.”
    She kissed his cheek, “I love you, Fin.”
    He hesitated, and she thought he wasn’t going to return her declaration, but when he did say, “I love you too,” it was with a voice so choked with emotion she wondered how he had ever got a single word out at all.
    Resting her head on his chest, she closed her eyes and slept. Only to wake in seeming minutes, yet the house was bathed in twilight, the warmth of the sun already gone from the sky. The only way to tell was from the soft light on the shutter.
    “Did I sleep that long?” she asked Fin.
    “No. Dusk, comes early to Hollowton. By witchcraft or otherwise, the sun is not welcome here. Now you’re awake we should go downstairs, wait for Angus, and then find out the plan.”
    She got out of bed stiffly. “I wish we could just go back to my little cottage and make love. I worry I will never see it again.”
    “You will, Sybil. I will protect you with every last breath in my body.”
    “That is what worried me, Fin. I don’t want to live with your death on my conscience; I want to live with you forever by my side in life.”
    “Don’t worry. I have no intention of allowing the blood suckers to kill me.”
    They dressed in silence, both lost to what was to come. Then he took her hand and they went to the door, pulling it open to find Lord Angus waiting at the top of the stairs.
    “You’re up at last. Come, we must make haste. You said tonight will be the night of the attack?”
    “Yes,” Sybil answered.
    “Then there is little time to lose. Night will be upon us. I have been thinking over what you said. And if the force against me is to