Devil at Midnight by Emma Holly

Author:Emma Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

William was not as giddy as Charles had been after his time with the minstrel, but then his nature was not as giddy to begin with. Christian still had to slap him to alertness before he could question him. Though Michael’s golden eyebrows shot up at the action, he did not object.

Per Christian’s request, Michael was the only ... well, the only living witness to this interrogation. Christian could tell his best friend was uneasy with the honor—or at least concerned. Then again, perhaps it was the topic of Nim Wei’s seductive powers that had the former novice’s hackles up. Michael looked uncharacteristically slight sitting next to William on a bale of hay, his long legs stretched and stacked at the ankles, his hard arms folded over his chest. William, the comrade who dwarfed him, was hunched sleepily forward with his forearms propped on his knees. Too tightly wound to sit, Christian paced the stable floor in front of them.

Grace sat in the shadows by the tack, silently observing. Though he could not see her from his position, his awareness of her presence was a quiet warmth in his mind. Grace lent him a steadiness he had not known he lacked before he met her.

It seemed no amount of interrupted coitus could change that.

“I told you,” William said wearily. “Mistress Wei did naught to harm me.”

“Are you certain you remember everything she did?”

At Christian’s question, William sagged back against the rail of the sheep pen. “I doubt I could forget it. It was ...” His eyes unfocused as he traveled back, the softness of his expression sending a prickle down Christian’s spine. William looked beatific. “Swiving her was wondrous. No doubt you and Michael are accustomed to women being eager to bed you, but I have never known one who was that hungry for me. Mistress Wei pulled things from me, capacities for pleasure I did not know I possessed. I am surprised you did not hear me shouting myself hoarse. Repeatedly, as it were.”

The state of William’s muscles supported his claim. His hulking shoulders were relaxed, his huge boots sprawled wide on the dirt and straw of the floor.

“How repeatedly?” Michael craned around to ask.

The question was reluctant, not to mention intrusive, but William did not take offense. The grin that stretched his mouth was as foolishly prideful as one of Charles’s. “Six times. In scarcely more than an hour. I did not know I could rise that often. And if I look exhausted, I assure you, that is the sole reason why.”

Though Christian was aware that Michael’s wide eyes had turned to him, and that his palms were rubbing nervously down his thighs, Christian kept his attention on William.

“She did not offer you food or drink? Anything that did not taste as it should?”

“She did not drug me, Christian,” William insisted. “All she did was wring out my balls. Perhaps you should let her do that for you, if this is how you behave when you go without.”

Christian blinked at him, any impulse to deny that he was going without dying in his breast.

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