Awaken (Tales of Dormiraa Book 2) by Cassandra Dean

Author:Cassandra Dean [Dean, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Dean
Published: 2018-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

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Hand half raised to knock, Bharia hesitated. Perhaps it was better to return to her room. Perhaps he did not wish to be disturbed, and she would be well served to leave him be.

No. These thoughts were ridiculous. Exhaling forcefully, she knocked.

Stahg opened the door, naked to the waist, his chest rising and falling with quickened breath. Sweat slicked his skin, his musculature defined. Her mouth dried.

She couldn’t help but to run her gaze over him, a lick of heat curling low in her belly.

“Bharia?” Her gaze snapped to his. Colour rode high on his cheeks, his gaze determinedly locked on her eyes. “Do you enter?”

“Yes, of course.” She slipped past him, noting his chamber was much the same as the one she’d been assigned. Wandering about the room, she allowed her touch to travel over the armchair. He’d pushed it aside, obviously to do some training drills.He had averted his gaze, staring at something to the side. “What are you wearing?” he said gruffly.

She looked down at herself. She was wearing her sleep shift, the thin fabric hitting her mid-thigh and held up by two thin straps at her shoulders, something he’d seen her wear a hundred times before. “It is what I sleep in. You have seen it before.”

“Do you not have a robe?” The colour riding high on his cheeks had darkened to a ruddiness.

Her brows drew. “Why do I need a robe? It is not cold.”

Shaking his head, he pinched the bridge of his nose. “Why are you here?”

Bristling, she said, “If you do not wish me here, I will leave.”

“No, that is not what I said—” He exhaled. “Stay, Bharia.”

She nodded.

An awkward silence rose. Wrapping her arms about her stomach, she drank him in. They could have been separated today. They could have been sent to opposite corners of the world, and she would never have seen him. They might, on occasion, have crossed journeys, at the Guard’s Keep or on the road, but it could have been years between one meet and the next. The thought had made her sick.

So, finally, she had admitted what she wanted. She wanted him. Above all, she wanted him at her side, as more than a partner. As partner and lover both.

“I do not like being alone,” she said

Her words rang through the chamber, too loud and too sudden. Fighting the heat that rose on her cheeks, she raised her chin. “I missed you.”

He had told her to ask, to let him know when his help was required. So here she was, standing before him and asking...For eight years, he had been by her side, never more than a few strides away and tonight...tonight he was too far from her.

Annoyance crossed his features. “And this is the reason you have come to my chamber?”

“No.” She took a breath. “We have been together most nights for eight years. It is odd without you present.”

His lips twisted. “So it was because of familiarity.”

“No.” Frustration filled her, at the eloquence she lacked.

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