Bound in Blood by A. F. Dery

Author:A. F. Dery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fated mate romance, romantic sword and sorcery fantasy, clean fantasy romance, nurse patient romance, wizard spy romance, fantasy romance series
Publisher: Ring Drop Press LLC
Published: 2015-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

They walked well into the night, only pausing for short, tense breaks along the way. The damp air smelled of leaves and earth, a pleasant change from the recent stuffiness of Gywn’s cottage, and it thankfully grew a little cooler once the sun set. The trees began to thicken the farther south they went, intensifying the darkness and slowing their pace. Gwyn saw and heard no one except the birds in the trees and the occasional animal scampering through the underbrush; if Dominic did, he said nothing.

In fact, he had said nothing at all since she had explained to him about her magic, and she knew what that meant. It didn’t surprise her, and it shouldn’t have bothered her, but it did.

Maybe it was because it had sounded almost like he was trying to comfort her, maybe even like he could find within himself some acceptance of what she was, before she’d finally convinced him that she was a danger to him. For a moment, she had believed his words, or at least she had wanted to. Maybe he really could accept whatever was happening to him. Maybe he could even come to accept her. Maybe one day more than his body would want her, and it wouldn’t be as unsafe as she imagined. The eyes that had seemed so strange to her at first no longer seemed so; the smoothness of his skin had not seemed so odd when his hand had been under her chin and those eyes had been looking into hers.

There was a part of her that had been forced to admit in that moment that for all of Dominic’s oddity, he was beautiful, and now that the admission had been made, she couldn’t seem to banish it. It was not a word she would normally use in relation to a man, but there was no other word that suited. He was not handsome. He was beautiful, like the mountains in the distance when the sun set over them, or like a particularly magnificent tree. And out here in the woods, he looked like he belonged in a way that he had not in her cottage. He looked like a part of them, and he was lovelier still.

She fought the urge to glance back at him until it was too dark for such efforts to be of any use anyway, dreading the look she was afraid she would find on his face.

The way it had gone blank and cold before he’d turned away from her before had been more than enough. He understands about me now, she thought sadly. He needs to, it’s good that he does, but...

But it had been nice when his initial wariness of her had passed, it had felt more tolerable somehow. It was back now, surely for good this time and stronger than ever, and though Gwyn knew it was for the best, it lent weight to her shoulders and to her steps. She already felt ashamed at what she

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