22 Nights by Linda Winstead Jones

Author:Linda Winstead Jones [Jones, Linda Winstead]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781440643842
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

BELA woke with the sun, as usual. Her head rested on Merin’s chest, and her hand was nestled between his thighs. It was only fair, since his hand was resting quite comfortably on her right breast. He slept on, and she did not disturb him. Not yet.

In was in Bela’s nature to take what she wanted. Whether it was sneaking into Tyman’s room at night and borrowing his practice sword or lying to a handsome general in order to lose her bothersome virginity, Bela was like a bull when it came to getting what she desired.

She was twenty-three years old and just now learning that some things could not be taken. Some valuable things had to be earned, they had to be won in a gentle battle. Merin would have to be won. Love would come only at the end of an ardent, persistent battle.

Was she prepared to fight? Was she prepared to risk anything and everything?

More important, was she willing to be patient? She could, given the current state of affairs, wake Merin most agreeably and take the pleasures of their bodies entwined. He fought the concept of love, but his body wanted hers. He wanted her very much. But if she did that, if she tricked him again, he might never forgive her.

Belavalari Haythorne had never been known for her abundance of patience.

No, she was rightly Belavalari Merin at the moment, was she not? Wife of Tearlach, daughter of the chieftain Valeron, potential mother of the children of a hero. Together she and Merin would make fine, strong sons and daughters.

If she could make him love her.

Merin awoke not long after her, and his hand flew from her breast as if her skin were on fire. “Sorry,” he muttered, sleep still in his morning-hoarse voice.

“No need to apologize,” she said as she removed her hand from between his thighs.

“We should arrive at our destination this afternoon,” he said, turning directly to business, trying to dismiss their closeness. Perhaps trying to dismiss his own desires.

“Yes, we should.” Bela sat beside him and admired the view from their place so high in the world. “I’m anxious to explore that area where Kitty was found. Would you kiss me? ”

“What?” He was surprised by the bold and unexpected question.

“Kiss me,” she said. “If you wouldn’t mind. I’ve never been kissed, except for last time you were here, and I’ve almost forgotten what it was like. Besides, I had lied to you then, so it was not a true and righteous kiss. I do remember it as being pleasant, and I thought while we are still married and there’s no one around to see . . .”

“It’s not a good idea,” Merin said gruffly.

“I know,” she said, looking him in the eye. “But after you’ve left us, I do not want to regret not taking a proper kiss when the opportunity presented itself.”

“Fine,” he said, not at all in the mood for a kiss by her reckoning. He grabbed the back of

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