Claimed by the King_A BBW Bear Shifter Fantasy Romance by Lorelei Moone

Author:Lorelei Moone [Moone, Lorelei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: eXplicitTales
Published: 2018-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

They ate, they drank, they made merry. The second night of the Reaping feast had gone by much like the first.

Broc admired the way Kelly carried herself. She was adjusting.

Even the long day of training with Rhea hadn’t dampened her spirits.

“Everything is fine, isn’t it? I mean, you are fine?” Broc had asked her when he first saw her, just to reassure himself. A day alone with Rhea… that could have gone any number of ways.

She had smiled and placed her hand on his briefly.

“I am,” she’d said, before elaborating in a more playful tone. “Better now to be sitting here with you.”

Now, as he looked down on her, naked and fast asleep in his bed, he could see that perhaps she had underplayed things a little.

She’d had a hard day. These marks on her arms and legs hadn’t been there before. Red grazes covered her lower arms and her knees, down to her shins. They weren’t deep, but they stood out starkly against her ivory skin.

His kind healed so fast, he’d never seen anything like it before. It stung, to see her this way.

Although she’d shown the same enthusiasm, the same passion as the night before, her touch had changed. She wasn’t as free in her movements. Had she been in pain?

He would ask her, except he didn’t have the heart to wake her up. She so very clearly needed the rest.

If Teaq and Rhea’s plan had gone too far, there would be repercussions.

Everyone on the island had undergone a certain amount of combat training. But this was different. Kelly was to be his queen.

He’d fight to the death to keep her from harm. She would never have to pick up a sword in battle herself; he would make sure of it.

As he continued to observe her, how innocently she lay there, he couldn’t help but wonder about the things Teaq and the Elders had said during the Council meeting. Surely he was the one keeping secrets in this room, not Kelly.

This prophecy the Elders had dug up; either it was simply a misinterpretation, or there was someone else; some other outsider whom they all ought to worry about.

It certainly couldn’t be Kelly. Not his queen.

She stirred and turned onto her side, moaning softly in the process.

“What is it, my darling?” Broc whispered.

He sat down beside her and gently rested his hand on her bare shoulder.

She sighed.

“Mother. Why have you forsaken me?” Kelly demanded.

Broc frowned. Her eyes remained closed. A dream, perhaps? Or a memory.

“Nobody has forsaken you. You’re not alone.”

Despite his attempt to comfort her, she grew more restless, turning onto her back again and shaking her head vigorously.

“I don’t understand. Why did have to you leave us?”

Clearly there was something eating away at her. Broc regretted not asking Kelly about her past and her family some more. That might have afforded him some insights now.

Broc lay down beside her, wrapping his arm around her and pulling her body against his.

This seemed to help. Kelly’s breaths became deeper and more regular.

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