Awaken to Pleasure by Lauren Hawkeye

Author:Lauren Hawkeye [Hawkeye, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460335659
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Boone had been with many women in the years since the queen had imprisoned him in the lamp—his punishment for saving Moira when she was a child. He’d been with men, too, and his body had enjoyed them all, taking the comfort of physical pleasure, the only real comfort he’d had in a life that had been utterly out of his control since the day he’d first seen Moira Connor.

What had just passed between them had shaken him to the core. It was real.

He might not fully be a witch anymore, but he still knew—he had found his mate. He, a cursed witch, had found a mate in the human girl who despised magic, who was destined to save the world from his own kind.

He hadn’t had a vision, not a true one, since he’d first seen Moira’s face, floating in his dreams, so many years ago. But in that moment he knew that with more certainty than he’d ever felt that nothing good could come of this.

He hadn’t been entirely truthful with her when explaining the rules of the lamp—of his curse. He didn’t have to leave her once she had made her wish… not if she wished for his freedom. The problem there lay in the fact that he had no idea whether or not he would retain any of his magic once he was freed.

And humans never wished for selfless things, anyway. They all wanted wealth, comfort, beauty, sex.

The lamp and the curse didn’t consider a selfless wish to be an actual desire… it would grant a second wish if the first was truly from the heart.

But that had only happened once—in the moment he had been cursed. Moira’s mother had wished for her daughter’s life to be spared. Perhaps that was why Boone had actually been able to. Whatever the reason, as the curse had wrapped itself tightly around him, he had understood that he could grant one more desire to the woman, even through his own fear and confusion.

It had been too late, because the woman was dead. And he had never once told a master or mistress of this addendum to the rules of the lamp… because could a wish truly be selfless if the wisher knew they would get a second chance?

Boone shook his head to clear it of his thoughts. He had sworn an oath to protect this girl—and it had been her mother’s final wish. So though he wanted to lie in the dark of Moira’s hut and think over what had just happened—and what he was to do about it— instead he rose, splashed some water over his face.

And waited in the night.

* * *

The velvety dark of the desert sky cloakedMoira instantly as she slipped out of her hut, her movements as silent as she could make them, so as not to awaken Boone. As always, she took a moment to look up and to appreciate the beauty of the vast heavens that were always clearly visible through the pulsating dome of the haven.

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