Beth's Acceptance (Destiny's Trinities) by Cooper-Posey Tracy

Author:Cooper-Posey, Tracy [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Published: 2013-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

She wasn’t aware of falling asleep, but a warm hand on her shoulder woke her. Beth didn’t feel startled at all. The hand was gentle, comforting.

“You must be getting hungry,” Lindál whispered.

“I am,” she agreed. “Why is it dim in here?”

“It’s raining outside,” he murmured. “Keep still. I’m going to remove the dildo.”

She felt his hands on her ass, tenderly ministering to her and felt no embarrassment. “Where’s Zack?”

“He went to the keep to do some research. It’s about two p.m. You’ve been asleep a couple of hours, but you haven’t eaten enough today, not for the calories you’ve burned.”

“Food sounds good.”

He unzipped the boots she still wore and dropped them to the floor, then picked up her hand and pulled her gently from the bed. “Come with me,” he said and led her into the en suite. This was not a windowless enclosure squeezed into the floor plan, but a room of its own, with floor to ceiling windows all along one side, overlooking Manhattan. There was a huge shower stall that took up one part of the windows and was glassed in on the other two sides, with the fourth side against the tiled wall, which contained the water controls.

“I know Zack likes the sun, but this is...overwhelming.”

“It’s perfect,” Lindál said. “He’s more elf than he realizes.”

“He’d kill you if he heard you say that.”

Lindál grinned. “I know.” He quickly stripped his clothing and placed the knife on the sink. Beth hid her sigh as his naked form was revealed. He was as fine as any athletic human male. The broad shoulders were strong, rounded with muscle—not bulging the way Zack’s did, but lean and with the subtle glow that marked him indelibly as elvish. He turned on the shower jets and adjusted the temperature, then rested his hand against the window where rivulets of rain matched the shower run-off. “Water within and without.”

He picked up her hand again and drew her into the water, where he washed her from tip to toe.

“You make me feel like a two year old,” she whispered, as Lindál worked soap through her fingers and rinsed them.

“You have never taken care of a loved one this way?” he asked, surprised.

“Children, yes.”

“Ah, well, in our land, this is a common way of expressing love.”

“Love?” She was startled. She looked up at Lindál, to find his blue eyes gazing steadily at her.

“Don’t shy from it, Seaveth,” he said softly. “I can feel your panic.”

“You’ve known me less than—“

“I’ve known your soul forever. It has taken decades to find you. You’ve always had my love, Beth.”

“Even though I am human?”

“It matters naught.”

“The bonding took care of that,” she said bitterly.

“The bonding had nothing to do with it,” Lindál said softly. “It was an excuse. It gives me a way out with my race—an escape I would not have had otherwise.”

She stared at him. This was an echo of Zack’s words. He would not have touched her had it not been for the bonding. “You’ll pay the price the bonding demands of you, just to be with me?” she asked Lindál.

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