Birth of a King by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: multiple sexual partners, brave heroine, multiple hero, captive heroine, winged warriors, enslavement breeding, genetically engineered warrior, sea folkmerfolk
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Emma cringed inwardly as soon as the words were out, thinking how much better it would have been if she’d considered before she’d said anything.

Gaelen tensed.

She wasn’t surprised—well maybe a little that he seemed to actually understand what she’d said when the impression she’d gotten was that he didn’t fully grasp the language.

Which might have had something to do with the inspiration to say it.

Because he wouldn’t understand anyway.

“That was a joke,” she said quickly before he could say anything. “I mean … I wasn’t actually serious, just … uh … God! I don’t know. I’m socially awkward. It’s not unusual for me to stick my foot in my mouth.”

“Am confused. Why stick foot in mouth?”

“I’m not surprised,” Emma muttered wryly. “Let me try again—thank you for letting me know about Nye. I can’t begin to explain how much that meant to me. I had no way to find out anything and I’ve been worried sick.” And her gratitude had boiled over into stupidity.

“Ah,” Gaelen responded, nodding, clearly not really enlightened.

Or maybe not happy with that explanation?

Right! He wanted her to fall madly in love with him!

This wasn’t just fucking! It was meaningful. And not just in the sense of using it to procreate.

Emma just wished she truly understood, but, as absolutely pathetic as it was, she realized there was more truth than humor in what she’d said.

Why else had it even occurred to her to say such a thing? Even with mockery and self-depreciation, why that and not something silly?

Of course it was silly, but it also wasn’t something anybody should ever say flippantly.

Especially when they’d just had sex with a man they hadn’t known even a month—well, maybe that long.

She was deranged from her experiences?

Or maybe, she thought uncomfortably, her near death experiences had brought out something she’d been hiding from herself?

She wasn’t happy with her life, or even mostly content. She was desperate for someone to love who would love her back and she just didn’t have a clue of how to go about finding what she needed.

Then Nye had virtually landed in her lap and almost instantly won her heart, making it clear what she needed.

And then, in the blink of an eye, he was snatched away.

Mentally, she shook her head at herself. She was looking for something to soothe her sensibilities about the role she’d been forced in to—so she could pretend she wasn’t just fucking to breed for the slave masters.

It was as simple and as complicated as that.

So, yes, she supposed fear had scrambled her brains.

But it was also true that she’d developed a fondness for the men who’d taken her from her old life because she wanted to be with Nye, especially Gaelen. There was plenty there to make them loveable.

Struggling to dismiss it, she turned to Gaelen for distraction. He managed it with amazing ease, taking her to paradise again, dispelling all of her tension and sucking the energy from her so that she could fall into a black pit where life hadn’t been upended.

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