Captured by Her Enemy Knight by Nicole Locke

Author:Nicole Locke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-10T15:37:36+00:00

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He canted his head, the brown locks tumbled along his shoulder. ‘You’re proud of your body. You should be.’

She nodded. He did understand. Of course he did. She didn’t want him to hold back. She was a warrior, too. She loved his size and strength. Wanted it.

Although that brought her to who she was. Her scars, the strength, the training, the fact she didn’t own a dress.

‘Not since I was training has it failed me,’ she said. ‘I am strong and can lift far more than my weight. I can climb trees and am small enough to reach branches others can’t, but I can’t wear dresses, not without feeling clumsy. I can’t be—’

‘You think because you’re sturdy I wouldn’t want you. Or because you are built like this, strong for a man like me, I wouldn’t want you.’

He was right, but it wasn’t all she meant. ‘You make it sound contradictory.’

‘Isn’t it? Are we not just contradictions?’

‘Can it...can we be both?’

‘It could, but it’s not. If you truly want me despite my size, then what makes you think I wouldn’t want you despite your scars? Or maybe I want you because of them. Because they show your bravery. Your endurance.’

‘Most men wouldn’t like the fact I climb trees.’

A quirk to his lips, a dubious question to his eyes. ‘You are a formidable foe, but I’m not kissing your lips, I’m not aching to taste your breasts, begging to part your thighs, only because you climb trees.’

She shouldn’t be shocked. She shouldn’t. She’d seen men piss, defecate, throw snot out of their nose. She’d seen them shove their hands down their pants to fondle themselves in all sorts of matters. She had even seen sex.

But Eldric’s words sent a hot spike right through her centre.

He knew it, too. His smile and the heat in his eyes increased, making the shot of need acute through her. ‘It’s because you’re you.’

‘Me?’ She looked down.

‘You.’ The colour of her hair, the softness of her skin. The way she looked at him with that mixture of vulnerability and strength. Eldric tried to keep his control, lost it. ‘I must kiss you again.’

So he did. He did. Ever careful she was under him, but losing that carefulness all the same. Noting the changes in her with each kiss he deepened.

Down the column of her neck, down between her breasts he had yet to touch, taste. So he did. Kisses, darting of his tongue.

She gasped. ‘Eldric.’

He lifted his head. ‘How did we get here? How? I want more of you.’ He licked across her nipple, bright red and swollen.

She arched under him. So he did it on the other one and she clawed his shoulders.

‘But for that time in Swaffham, I’ve never worn a dress. I know the best of wood for arrows, at what sharpness each arrowhead could be—’

‘Cressida, my mouth has been along the curve of your shoulder, my tongue tracing the plumpness of your breasts.’ She was beautiful like this. Flushed, her hair cascading outwards.

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