Descendant by L.E. Royal

Author:L.E. Royal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA+, romance, paranormal, shifter, werewolf, bisexual, alpha, secret community, conspiracy
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2022-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

ROUGH FINGERTIPS STROKED her hip, and his voice rumbled in his chest against her back. “How you feelin’?”

Violet opened her eyes, blinked, and closed them again. His stubble scratched her cheek when he leaned over her.

“Talk to me?”

The trepidation in his voice nudged her properly awake. She rolled from where she’d been on her side with him spooned up behind her and onto her back.

“Sore,” she hissed when she turned her head to look at him, and the bandage on her shoulder puckered. Her skin pulled around the bite. “But good.”

The frown lines beside his eyes melted away. “No regrets?” he clarified.

Violet stroked the jut of his cheekbone. “No regrets.”

Mikel leaned down and caught her in a kiss. She returned it for a moment, then pushed him off to go brush her teeth. She smelled the toothpaste already on his breath.

“Your eyes,” he reminded her as she reached the bathroom door before she could look in a mirror. “You look beautiful,” he reassured her.

Violet thought she saw the faintest tinge of gold in his when he said it, but she was too far away to be sure.

“Won’t last forever, if you don’t like it,” he offered, and she ignored the trepidation in her gut.

Violet was careful not to look before she used the bathroom and brushed her hair. When she brushed her teeth with her head bent over the sink at an odd angle, she realized she might be avoiding it. She rinsed, spat, and stood up.

“Holy shit.” No matter how she tipped her head or turned, the gold ring in her irises stayed, bright and blazing. It made her brown eye look darker but richer, like embers, and her green eye shone with hazel now. She studied them until she could finally tear her gaze away to inspect the huge Band-Aid she didn’t remember him putting on her last night.

“Well?” he called from the bedroom.

Violet peeled the bandage back slowly. He’d cleaned up the worst of the mess. Sense memory struck, and she could feel that rivulet of blood making its way down to her collarbone, the cold, damp soil under her knees, and the blooming heat in her belly when he finished with his teeth in her.

She poked gingerly at the marks, an upper and lower set of teeth that made a whole. It was already scabbed, the skin around it shiny and healing.

“Good,” she announced, taking one last look at her eyes before she went back to the bedroom.

Mikel had been doing something on his phone. He glanced up at her return. Violet watched his gaze move from her face, to the now uncovered mark, and the reaction that ricocheted visibly through him.

“Come here.” His tongue wet his lips after he spoke, and she moved to him like a moth to a flame. “Stars, Violet, you’re beautiful.”

He caught her around the thighs and tugged her back into the bed. He rolled them until he was over her, and she was laughing, breathless at the humor dancing in his eyes.

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