Capricorn Dragon: Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14 - Cato

That was quite a dream, Cato told himself in the strange, half-lit trance that usually came over him in the moments between waking and opening his eyes. It had been a while since he’d had such a vividly erotic dream, and he could feel from the drowsy, contented warmth in his limbs that the effects had been physical as well as psychological. An unexpected dream, but not an unwelcome one. Maybe his subconscious had sensed he needed a bit of stress relief after everything that was going on with—

Acantha. Terror shot through him, dispelling the comfortable glow. She would have been standing in the corner of his room like a sentinel all night, right? What if he’d moved in his sleep, given away what kind of a dream he was having? He’d definitely been moaning her name in the dream at least—what if he’d been doing that out loud? There didn’t seem to be a sword sticking through his body, so there was some hope at least that he hadn’t…

But nothing could have prepared him for what he saw when he opened his eyes. No sign of the armored figure standing like a vengeful ghost by the door to his room—that space was empty. But his bed wasn’t. There, curled up in his arms with her dark red hair across her face… Cato froze, convinced for a moment that he was hallucinating. Was he somehow still in the dream? He felt very awake, especially with the adrenalin still blasting through him. He began to run through all the different magical artifacts that could generate an illusion this convincing. And then Acantha stirred a little in his arms, and he found himself forced to confront the possibility that this was actually real.

She was going to kill him, he thought faintly, running back through the memories with mounting horror. She was going to straight-up murder him. It didn’t matter that she was unarmed—he’d gotten a glimpse of her strength earlier, when she’d pinned him down. Acantha wouldn’t need her sword to tear him limb from limb.

Her eyes fluttered open, and it didn’t even occur to Cato to pretend that he hadn’t been watching her sleep. She blinked those green eyes a few times, and despite his conviction that he was about to die, he couldn’t help but smile a little to see this side of her. She seemed—not small, exactly. He had a feeling that nothing would make this woman seem small. But there was a softness to her, a kind of vulnerability that took his breath away to witness. Something told him this was a rare privilege.

Then she looked straight at him, and for the first time in his life, Cato couldn’t think of a single thing to say.

It could have been seconds or hours later that she finally turned and slid out of bed, extricating herself from his embrace with a gentleness that surprised him. The soft, ever-present light that emanated from the stones glowed against her body, and he caught his breath at the sight of her in all her glory.

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