Dark by Lacey Lehotzky

Author:Lacey Lehotzky [Lehotzky, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Lehotzky Group LLC
Published: 2024-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

24

Béke Day Six

Iawoke with my mate in my arms.

She had accepted the bond.

I still could not believe it, but there it was, a solidified thread that was so potent I could feel its each and every shift between us as we dozed in our bed at Roc Palace, hidden away from the world. The first hints of light peeked through the heavy black curtains, and an idea formed in my head – one that I could not wait to carry out. Even though we had only gone to bed an hour before, I had to wake Izidora.

“Sprite,” I murmured in her ear, planting a gentle kiss on her still-damp hair.

She grumbled incoherently for a moment before releasing a long sigh.

“I have somewhere I want to take you.”

A yawn nearly unhinged her jaw, and she blinked blearily at me through the fog of sleep. “Where?” Her voice was thick and hoarse from how I’d made her scream my name over and over the night before.

“You’ll see. Get dressed, and we can take a nap when we get back,” I promised, running a finger along her bare shoulder.

“Ugh,” she moaned, reaching her arms overhead and stretching like a lazy cat before bringing her balled-up fists to her eyes and rubbing.

I stroked her long locks one last time before throwing the covers back, earning my usual string of curses as I exposed her to the cold. Rushing to the closet, I threw clothes her way, and she dutifully pulled them on beneath the righted covers before slipping from the pile of blankets.

Before she got far, I wrapped her in my arms and uttered the spell that would bend space to move us to the shop of my favorite jeweler. He sourced the purest stones from the mines buried deep in the mountains of the Iron Realm, and no one could match his skill in crafting the finest jewelry from them.

The shop was among dozens of others in the lavish part of Radence, where the richest of Iron Fae and Félvér lived and purchased their necessities. Each storefront gleamed as if it had been recently polished, and not a hint of ice coated the stone beneath our feet, already cleared for the patrons that would not arrive for hours.

“I never got you another ring after the one–” My teeth clenched around the words, as guilt and shame rendered me voiceless and unable to finish the sentence.

But my mate was more than aware, and I felt her concern and forgiveness down our bond. She spun in my arms, chestnut hair spilling down her back as she tipped her head up to look at me. Our gazes collided with the force of an avalanche, and I saw the truth of the words she whispered in my mind in her shining eyes.

“I am so glad you allowed me the space to make my decision. That was what ultimately led me back to you. You have never truly trapped me, not since the first day.”

“You are too fiery to trap.

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