Enslaved by Fear by Claire Ashgrove

Author:Claire Ashgrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal, demons
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Brigid laughed as Micah used his lean powerful body to roll her onto her back. In the bright moonlight, his blue eyes sparkled with amusement. Between his teeth he held a fat red grape. She leaned forward, laughing softly as her lips closed around his and she took the offered fruit. For an hour now, they’d talked and played like youths. She couldn’t remember a time life had been so carefree, when her spirit and heart worked in such symphony.

She ran her hand down the tight muscle along his spine to the waistband of the jeans he’d donned, reveling in the simplicity of the evening. Delighting in the simple freedom of touching Micah at liberty while she basked in the nighttime breeze.

He rolled away, back to his pile of pillows, his head braced on one elbow. “You should laugh more often. It’s a beautiful sound.”

His compliment brought warmth to her cheeks. She reached her hand between their bodies and laced her fingers with his. “I like this.”

Micah’s thumb caressed the back of her hand. “I do too.”

“Do you remember the first day you dropped in on your reclusive neighbors?” She chuckled again as she used the description he had applied to her and Fintan years earlier.

It was Micah’s turn to laugh. He popped another grape in his mouth, chewing as he nodded. When he swallowed, he gave her a wink. “I wanted to see the castle up close and personal.”

“Instead you caught Fintan and me in the middle of a fight. Tell me really—what did you think when I lit flames around his feet?”

His chuckles deepened, but his eyes held hers. “That it matched the color of your hair.”

“Be serious.”

“I am.” He took a sip of wine and sat up. “It wasn’t until after I left that I made the connection with the vibrations of the energies and realized my neighbors were half demon. By then, I liked you both too much to care.”

“Why didn’t you try to banish us?”

Micah shrugged. “I wasn’t as benign as you think. I asked around, did some digging. When the majority of people in the valley didn’t have odd stories to relate, I figured the both of you were fairly harmless.” His wry smirk returned to tug at the corner of his mouth. He leaned forward, his hand going to her hair, smoothing it as he pulled her close to whisper against her lips. “Little did I know what you were capable of doing to me.”

Warmth skittered around in her belly as his mouth captured hers, his kiss slow and languorous. His fingers played in her hair, slid through the locks to frame the side of her neck. Though she had dressed, chills broke over her body.

As he leaned away the moonlight illuminated two angry red, half-moon marks on his shoulder. A streak of unexpected compassion washed over her, and she bent forward to dust the fingernail marks with a soft kiss. “I’m so sorry I hurt you,” she whispered.

“You didn’t,” he answered huskily.

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