Wray (Tornians #3)

Prologue

The Tornian sun shone down brightly, nurturing the lush gardens of House Torino. A gentle breeze blew, carrying the fragrance of freshly blooming flowers with it. Birds circled and sang to the females on the patio.

Kim noticed none of it ; her attention captured by her daughter nursing at her breast. It had been nearly three months since she presented Destiny and Kim was still in awe that this precious creature had come from her.

‘She is so beautiful.’ Kim thought, running her knuckle along the soft skin of Destiny’s chubby cheek. She’d inherited her manno’s beautiful bronze skin along with his thick black hair. Only when the sun struck it, were the red highlights she had inherited from her mother, seen.

Destiny was pure Vasteri… until she opened her eyes and gazed up at her mother with Kim’s own eyes. Wray had been ecstatic when her eyes changed from the Vasteri gray she had at her presentation to Kim’s green eyes.

At first, Kim had been worried that Wray would be upset, but she should have known better. Already Wray’s tiny daughter had the Emperor of all the Civilized Universes wrapped around her tiny finger. When she smiled at her manno, his chest would puff up twice its normal size but when she cried... he would turn panicked eyes to Kim and call for the Healer.

Every male that came into contact with her reacted the same way, not that Wray ever allowed many near his daughter. Already he was the overprotective manno, and Kim couldn’t imagine what it would be like when Destiny became a teenager.

Smiling softly down at her daughter , Kim let her thoughts drift back to when she had been a teenager… to how her life had changed.