Bastian: The Lords of Satyr by Elizabeth Amber

Author:Elizabeth Amber [Amber, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction, General, Paranormal, Historical, Man-Woman Relationships
ISBN: 9780758241306
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2011-04-26T19:00:06+00:00

Silvia rode sidesaddle in front of Bastian, snuggled within his strong embrace, her head resting on his shoulder. Her legs were both draped over one of his, and she felt his powerful thigh muscles work as he urged their horse onward through the night. “Hold on,” he rumbled. His coat was open, so she looped her arms around him inside it, hugging his solid strength. Turning her face into the hollow of his throat, she kissed him. His narrowed eyes flickered over her and his hand tightened on the reins. The horse bucked in reaction, almost throwing them. Cursing, he loosened his grip and rode on, his face grimly determined.

When she’d first seen him on the street just now, joy had bubbled up in her. The sort of effervescent inner lightness a woman feels in the company of the man she loves. A joy she shared with her host—for tonight, all of her emotions would be a heady blend of Michaela’s and her own. Both were quite utterly attracted to him. But he belonged to only one of them. To Michaela, a woman not quite dead and not quite living.

Still, Silvia anticipated the coming hours with an unapologetic relish that was coupled with a tinge of wariness. After centuries of using her wits to protect her virginity, she would willingly lose it tonight, in spirit if not in fact.

Michaela’s body had known many men before, and it was her body their lover would mate under the full moon. Although Silvia would couple with him, she would nevertheless enjoy a certain impunity. This body was not truly hers, and her own virginity would still be intact when she eventually returned to her true form.

Instead of begrudging the sharing of her lover, Michaela seemed pleased with her for going with him now. She had long counseled Silvia against being so rigid in her interpretation of her vows of chastity, claiming that fornication while in the body of another host would not constitute a betrayal of them. But Silvia had always argued otherwise and had remained steadfastly pure over the centuries. Yet tonight, she would do as Michaela had long urged. She would lie with a man for the first time in her life.

A light drizzle began as they bypassed Palazzo Nuovo, and Bastian sheltered her from it with his body as best he could. Protective, as Michaela had said. His gesture, small though it was, touched Silvia’s heart.

Several blocks later, they arrived at their destination: the Salone di Passione. The entire three-story building reeked of ElseWorld magic. Along its façade, a series of sash windows alternated with Corinthian pilasters crowned with carven olive branches. Gaslights flickered beyond its windows, and the raindrops that clung to the glass splintered their illumination into hundreds of tiny jewels. The salon catered only to an elite contingent of ElseWorld creatures and had been bespelled so that the uninitiated could not see this building or any of the comings and goings from it. To humans, it was nonexistent, appearing only as an impenetrable thicket.

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