Black Heart (Dragon Brides Book 2) by Moira Kane

Author:Moira Kane [Kane, Moira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Gannon

The sheets whispered beneath Gannon as he slid carefully across the mattress. Soon enough the sun would rise and Mara would rise with it. After the night she had, she needed rest. But she was always early to wake and he suspected today wouldn’t be any different.

Her eyelids fluttered as a dream walked beneath them, plush lips pinched slightly. The temptation to run his thumb over them was nearly impossible to ignore, but he managed. Silky black curls fanned across her pillow. They were a match in coloring and complexion. Blacks were always fair in skin and black in hair. His mother had been as blonde as a mountain peak, yet each of her sons favored their father.

Gannon caught his hand as he realized it was wandering toward those luscious curls. She would be cross with him if she woke to find him here, no doubt. Or perhaps she wouldn’t. Mara was a funny creature, all grace and manners at first glance. Underneath the frills of that stupid etiquette was a soft heart, a woman who laughed easily, a creative soul whose music flowed as wildly and unplanned as the plants creeping out from the Blackwood to overtake the surrounding fields.

Someone tried to break her—her family, the ones who should have been cherishing her—and they failed. Mara had fine cracks along her frame, sensitive places that he’d seen and been wary of touching, but she wouldn’t shatter like porcelain. Beneath those cracks was a solid, unshakeable foundation. Gannon had every intention of adding to it, building her up until she never cowered before anyone again.

And Gods help her father if he ever got his hands on that rotten king. A man was meant to treasure his daughters, not train them the way he trained his caged beasts.

Never mind him. Gannon would show Mara what it meant to be treasured. He would earn her forgiveness for his horrible, idiotic behavior and he would woo her so thoroughly she would never want to leave his arms. Or his bed.

Blood rushed from his overactive brain to the lower part of himself that was equally overactive lately. Now he’d gone from pushing a boundary to thoroughly crossing it. Lying beside her to watch her sleep was innocent enough. Lying beside her and fantasizing about the way her cunt would grow slick for him if he took one of those beautiful pink nipples in his mouth was vulgar. Deliciously vulgar.

They were such beautiful nipples, peaked and straining against her nightgown. Was all women’s sleepwear so revealing? Perhaps he should have barged into her bed chambers sooner.

Suddenly he was alert and shooting upright, fluid and graceful as he left the bed and hurried to the window. He cracked the glass pane, careful not to allow the frigid morning air to worm its way in and disturb Mara.

Horses. He wasn’t mistaken. Gannon heard horses approaching the estate. From here it was impossible to tell what direction they were coming from, only that there were few of them.

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