Ashborne (The Ashborne Trilogy: Book 1) by Kat Lilynette

Author:Kat Lilynette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: coming of age, princess, teen, sword sorcery

Chapter Six

The spring in Shadowbark

When I woke the next morning, I was greeted by the sweet smell of breakfast. I leaned up and could see Emoren preparing a setting at the small table he was seated at the night before. His lean, muscular arms showcased in the thin, sleeveless leather vest he was now wearing.

“Good morning,” he smiled, placing a metal fork atop the neatly folded cloth that lay beside a plate of delightful smelling eggs and fruit.

“Morning,” I responded sleepily. It was just as I feared. After the past two nights, it felt completely normal to wake up to him – like I was were I belonged.

“I've prepared breakfast for you. Come. Eat,” he said as he walked to my bedside.

I looked up at him, a bit shocked that he wanted me to try and get up. As I shifted my weight, to my surprise, the pain in my leg was almost completely gone. I turned, sat on the edge of the bed, and looked up at Emoren's smiling face. Did he really want me to try and stand? With my wound, I knew I would probably never be able to walk correctly again. There's no way I would be able to stand so soon.

“It's all right. Try to put some weight on it,” he said as he put his hands out to assist me.

I took his hands and carefully put all my weight on my uninjured leg as I rose from the bed. It still surprised me how soft his skin was to the touch. I stood there, standing on one leg, holding his hands, feeling a little nervous about trying to put weight on my injured leg.

I slowly eased my other foot to the ground, applying a small amount of pressure. It didn't hurt. I looked up at Emoren and smiled in amazement, his stormy-blue eyes just a bit higher than my own. Not sensing any pain, like a fool, I immediately tried to stand normally. I gasped as a sharp burst of pain shot through my calf, sending me crashing into Emoren's well-defined chest as he caught me in his arms.

“Gently now,” he said softly as he supported my full weight with the strong arms he was wrapping around me.

As he held me, helping me regain my balance, I could feel my breasts pressing firmly against his tight torso, and the anxiousness and racing in my heart that I had felt before, returned to me like a flood of too much sunlight. I could feel my cheeks become completely flush. So much so, that I knew he could see it. But, as he helped me over to the table, he just smiled sweetly at me. I was glad we were both pretending that I wasn't blushing like an idiot.

“Are you not eating?” I asked as he sat me at the sole chair of the table.

“It's all right. You eat. I'll have some later.”

He wasn’t going to hear any arguments from me there. I don’t know if it was because of the medicine or what, but I was as hungry as ever.

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