Bound to the Elvin Prince by Lisa Kumar

Author:Lisa Kumar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fae human romance, elf human romance, fae hero human heroine romane, elf hero human heroine romance, elf fae soul link, elf fae soul mates, portal romance, royal hero, prince hero elf fae
Publisher: Lisa Kumar
Published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Relian took in the smaller form at his side. Cal stood close—so close he could brush his side against hers if he desired. And, oh, how he desired! He fisted his hands to keep from reaching for her. Those stubborn appendages seemed to take on a life of their own if he didn’t.

She’d touched him with increasing frequency since that day by the waterfall, and he’d been happy to return the favor. The fateful events of a week ago broke some reserve in her, anchoring her to his side more fully than anything else ever could have. But they never progressed past innocent caresses on the arm or cheek. He feared to push her, so he’d go at her pace—for now. She was still wary, but the binding was pulling at her, too. The evidence of that was in her eyes, in her touch, in her smile.

Guilt about his lies and withholding of information still bit at him, but he muzzled it, stuffing it deep within. What did it matter because the end result would be the same? She’d fall in love and bond with him. In the end, it’d all work out. It had to.

Time was a strange thing, though, and he’d never realized how much so until she’d arrived. The passage of time had never been of a concern to him before. Why would it?

His kind measured the passing of time by years, centuries, and even millennia. Minutes and seconds had rarely seemed important until now. Now snatched moments were all he caught with her. And he wanted to spend each and every one of them caressing her skin. The very tension of it hummed through his veins.

These times with her were both his pleasure and his torment. He gritted his teeth. The need to touch her grated like a wound, yet so did her absence. He could count the days she’d been in his world.

Nineteen days.

Not even three weeks.

Was that all? Barely three weeks of his life? He took a calming breath and resisted the urge to comb his hand through his hair. If he did, he’d probably tear it out. When had he started to count his days as if they were precious things, to be numbered and neatly ordered?

This was the mortal way of tracking time, but it’d never been his way, until now. An immortal mind was never meant to be confounded by the reality of finite time, at least as it stood by mortal concept. To live so fettered by time’s bonds confused his kind. Yet humanity had always seemed determined to ignore its existence, seeming to think they had forever. He shook his head.

How could they live with such temerity? He’d forgotten this aspect of humanity, as he’d been an adolescent when the separation occurred. Indeed, he’d probably been too young to notice. Young elves were much akin to their human cousins in the way they grew, only it took them centuries to obtain full adulthood and mortals a score of years.

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