Emyr's Smile by Amy Rae Durreson

Author:Amy Rae Durreson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy

Chapter 6

BUT WHEN they climbed up to Emyr’s room, Heilyn felt less sure of himself. He’d never shared a bed with someone just for comfort (top to tail in a cheap inn to save pennies once or twice, but that hadn’t been intimate in the way this was). He’d never even stayed until morning with a man before. And this was Emyr, and that was Emyr’s bed, with its sheets rumpled, and this was Emyr’s room, with the books he was reading stacked beside the bed and an empty mug balanced precariously on the edge of the basin.

“If you don’t want to,” Emyr started.

“Just deciding my strategy,” Heilyn said immediately. “I’m an expert blanket thief, I’ll have you know.” And he dropped himself down in the middle of the bed, where he could grin up at Emyr.

“Ridiculous,” Emyr said again, but it was fond this time. “Move over.”

Heilyn rolled over, and shivered a little as Emyr’s weight settled beside him on the bed. He couldn’t quite make his body believe that it wasn’t about to be loved, so he tried to slow his breathing. Emyr snuffed the lantern and shifted in the bed again, the pillows tugging slightly under Heilyn’s cheek. The bed smelled like Emyr, apple and dried spices and ink, and Heilyn wanted to burrow into it and never leave. He wanted to turn and curl up against Emyr, run his hands across bare skin, and press quiet kisses to the back of Emyr’s neck. He could hear Emyr’s breathing, slow and steady, and was suddenly convinced that his own heart was beating at the same rhythm.

“He wasn’t kind.”

“What?” Heilyn said. He’d thought Emyr was asleep.

“What you said earlier, about a kind heart—Aneirin wasn’t kind. He was passionate about life, and he was fun, and he always had a big dream and managed to drag everyone along to fulfill it, but he wasn’t kind.”

“I’m sorry.” Heilyn reached out blindly and found Emyr’s shoulder. He held on, as tightly as he could.

“He was furious when I said I couldn’t go with him, but I had no choice. People needed me here, and so I got angry too, and then he.. he died, and I was never angry enough to want that.”

“It wasn’t your fault.” Heilyn thought about it, all the little bits and pieces of the story people had let slip since he arrived on Sirig. “Nor was it his fault. You were both so young, and it sounds to me like you grew up, because you had to, and he stayed a child and didn’t understand what you had to do. Nobody was at fault.”

“That’s…” Emyr trailed off and went quiet. After a while he said, his voice soft, “He wasn’t, but you are.”

“Are what?” Heilyn asked sleepily.

“Kind,” Emyr said and moved. Suddenly he was on top of Heilyn, their bare chests pressed together. Heilyn bucked his hips up without thinking, his whole body shaking with the sudden contact, and gasped. He could feel Emyr’s breath on his cheek, rough and hot, and knew that he was about to be kissed.

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