Blue Voodoo: A Romantic Retelling of Bluebeard (The Hidden Kingdom Series Book 2) by Jennifer Blackstream

Author:Jennifer Blackstream [Blackstream, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, adult fairy tales, voodoo romance, adult fairy tales with sex
Publisher: Skeleton Key Publishing
Published: 2015-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Ecstasy. Pleasure. A feeling of…completeness. A tension he’d felt his entire life easing, releasing its death grip on his insides. Warmth flooding through his core, chasing away the biting chill of shadows.

“Je t'aime.”

The words leapt from his lips again, stronger this time. He trapped her against a tree, as he dropped his head, seeking his lover’s mouth, needing to share her breath. Her warm lips parted beneath his and Julien groaned, pressed forward, questing tongue licking, searching. The taste of bourbon in all its smoky, aged glory, a perfume that would forever remind him of this place, this woman.

This woman. His woman. His bonded.

Something fluttered at the back of his mind like a swarm of bats waking in a cave, his nerves sizzling from the jet of adrenaline. But it seemed far away. Everything, even the world, seemed far away right now. His entire existence narrowed down to the warm and willing feminine body in his arms, and her soft exhalation of breath.

“Julien…”

Her voice. Oh, he’d missed that voice, dreamt of that voice. Leaving her had been the hardest thing he’d ever done. But he’d had to leave, couldn’t risk—

This.

Julien’s eyes flew open, a freezing wash of horror spilling over him like a sudden autumn shower. Dominique’s brown eyes, glazed over with desire, blinked lazily at him. Her beautiful lips were swollen, passion-bruised from his kiss. Her skin was glowing the way every bride’s should glow on her wedding night. She shifted against him, a rolling, sinuous motion that broadcast her invitation to every nerve center in his body. It was nearly enough to draw him back into the kiss, to distract him from the dawning realization of what had just happened.

Bonded.

“No. No, it shouldn’t have been that easy, it shouldn’t… It can’t happen that fast, that… It should have hurt.”

Dominique tilted her head to study him, her hair brushing against the bark of the tree at her back. Julien’s desire-addled brain finally registered that he had her pinned there, held to the trunk of the oak like some sort of hamadryad.

“You… No. No, you couldn’t.” He closed his eyes, willing it to be a dream. His stomach roiled like a ship on storm-tossed waves. And still that shining light inside him glowed, gave off waves of peace, satisfaction.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the lines around Dominique’s eyes had deepened. Her body lost the languidness of passion, stiffened as she finally registered the change in his demeanor. He wanted to back away, put space between them, but the power pulsing inside him pulled, straining toward the woman it had come from. Julien let out a choked sound and dropped his head again, his lips barely touching the shell of her ear. The pathetic note pricked his pride, stirring his temper.

“How dare you,” he breathed into her hair.

“How dare I?” Dominique jerked back and shoved against his chest, the friction breaking bark from the tree. “How dare I what?”

He gripped her wrist in a crushing hold and pressed it harder against his chest.

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