A Lamentation of Swans by Desiree Acuna

Author:Desiree Acuna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, elf, fantasy romance, shifter, shifter romance, dragon shifter, multiple partner, unicorn shifter, multiple hero
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing

Chapter Nine

Caelin felt his face heat with a mixture of discomfort and anger. He discovered when he glanced at Gwyneth, however, that she was struggling to keep from laughing and the humor of the situation struck him. Grinning reluctantly, if somewhat sheepishly, he moved away from her to dress himself.

With a resurgence of his previous pique, he noted Faine, for all his breast beating about the ‘wrongness’ of it, had no trouble performing his ‘duty’. Drake, of course, made no pretense of coupling with her for the sake of the group. He enjoyed her with lusty enthusiasm.

It didn’t escape Caelin that she enjoyed him with equal enthusiasm or please him in the least, particularly when he realized Drake had outmaneuvered them all by suggesting she lie down on his pallet. He didn’t actually think about until it occurred to him that he wouldn’t mind sharing his own with her.

Drake’s eyes were gleaming with triumphant amusement when he sent him an accusing look. “She is sleeping now anyway, poor little dove,” he murmured.

Caelin frowned, wrestling with the desire to couple with her again and an equal certainty that his desire to do so was evidence enough that he was in deep trouble. “You are certain that it was enough?”

“I believe there is enough seed in her to float her eyeballs,” Drake retorted dryly. “If something does not take root, then it cannot be done.”

“We have made a mess of your pallet. You may take mine, if you like.”

Drake’s eyes gleamed. “Thank you, youngling, but I believe I will sleep well enough with my little pet curled against me. She is delightfully cuddly even when she is sticky.”

Caelin swallowed the angry retort that rose to his tongue. In truth, he knew Drake had done him a favor, regardless of whether he’d meant to or not. It was becoming abundantly clear to him that he could not maintain the distance of strangers that would have given him some comfort. It wasn’t that it hadn’t bothered him at all to think of sacrificing a stranger to save his mother’s soul. It had, and yet the woman who had given him life meant far more to him than any stranger possibly could.

Except Gwyneth was no longer a stranger. She was no faceless, soulless being that meant nothing to him and he could not put her back into the nothing that she had been.

The thought plagued him more each day.

He could not abandon his mother to her suffering. He could not!

And he’d begun to realize that his own life would be a torment to him forever more if he gave Gwyneth over to Artimus.

* * * *

It was harder work balancing on the back of a horse, Gwyneth reflected, than she would ever have thought. Not that Faine was a horse, of course. Unicorns were far more noble than mere horses, but she thought riding one was much the same for she could not tell a great deal of difference in the ache of her buttocks and legs.

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