Entangled by Olivia Stocum

Author:Olivia Stocum
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tangled Moon Books
Published: 2020-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

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“Am I okay?” she asked, touching her neck.

“Physically, yes,” Alessandro said. She was better than okay. Her skin was luminous even in the dim light. Her hair shimmered gold and her eyes were a deeper, clearer blue than before. She was an enhanced version of herself.

“Mentally, not so much?” she said.

“You need more, habibti.”

He couldn’t continue taking her in with him while he fed. Kendra was making it hard for him not to drink too much of her. He couldn’t take the risk that he might lose control, especially while he was thirsty, and she kept throwing herself at him.

If they could stay anywhere for more than a night he would arrange a payoff for blood, do this at their home, wherever home was. Kendra needed more than a vampire could give her. She needed a man, and something resembling a life.

“It’s like I want you to take all of me, all my blood,” she whispered, staring blindly out the windshield as she spoke.

“I know.”

“Is that how you feel?”

“Yes.”

“How do you do it? I didn’t know if I was dying. I didn’t care.”

“I do it because I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I couldn’t keep you alive.”

There was no way for him to know exactly what she was going through, mentally, emotionally, physically. He could observe, and sense the state of her emotions, but not feel what she did. All he had left was to appeal to her as a man naturally could to a woman. But that would only go so far without a bed, because he refused to have her any other way.

“I think maybe you’re going to have to marry me,” she said, blue eyes searching. “Because you’re right. I have other needs, and as crazy as it sounds I’m really wary about sleeping with you without a ring.”

“I know.”

They’d go to Switzerland first. He didn’t want to endanger the brethren by remaining too long at the monastery. They could go during the day, be married, and then stay the night at a decent inn. He could arrange for a donation of blood from the brethren. He would have them bag the blood and take it with him.

They could do this, at least for her wedding night.

“I’ll arrange everything,” he said. “Paris will have to wait a few days.”

Her brow furrowed. “Clue me in?”

“I can’t keep you safe, and I can’t care for you as you need. We’re going to Switzerland. We’ll pick out rings in the morning. Something that came from one of my mines. I can’t promise what our lives will be like, but I will give you your wedding night.”

He didn’t hear anything from her, glanced Kendra’s way. She was staring at him.

“What?” He looked her over. All he sensed from her was astonishment.

“How do I say, I love you, in Arabic?”

“You can just say it,” he told her.

“I love you,” she whispered.

He wanted to pull over and have her right there. That was the flesh talking. How about the rest of him?

“I love you,” he said.

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