Eternally Bound by Eden Bradley

Author:Eden Bradley [Bradley, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Hot Romance Inc
Published: 2021-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

When Calam woke it was dark outside the tall, paned windows of the luxurious room, the heavy velvet draperies pulled aside to give a view of the night sky through a film of delicate sheers. Inside, a tall lamp burned, casting dim, golden light and shadows. Beside him, Ilana’s body was warm. He turned onto his side and found her awake.

“Watching me sleep again?” she asked him, her smile lazy and utterly seductive.

“You’re lovely when you sleep,” he told her truthfully.

“It seems you’ve gotten to see a lot of that these last days.”

“I don’t mind. There are worse things than to watch a gorgeous woman sleep. Like Sleeping Beauty, you are.”

“Except that she was a virgin, wasn’t she?”

“In some of the tales, perhaps.” He grinned. “I much prefer this version, with my Beauty wanton and willing.”

“You’re a flatterer,” she said, her cheeks going a bit pink. Charming.

“Aye, a bit, perhaps, but it’s the truth.”

“Where are the others? Do you know?” she asked. “Luka and Konstantine. Ever.”

“Gone. It’s difficult to say. They’ll return when they want us again, no doubt.”

“How long did I sleep this time?” she asked him, stretching, her arms over her head.

He loved to see her like this. Her blonde waves mussed, her dark blue eyes heavy lidded, with sleep or passion. She was so damn lovely. Achingly so—wasn’t that what it was called sometimes?

“Calam?” she said, a question in her tone.

“Ach, apologies. Wool gathering. I’m not certain how long you’ve slept. I slept myself. But I think it was yesterday we were with them, so all day, all night last night and into evening again.” He stroked her cheek, her skin like satin under his fingertips. She shivered, and he loved that she did, just from him touching her face. “How do you feel? Are you well?”

“Yes. Wonderful. And…”

“What is it, Ilana?”

She paused, biting her lower lip, her white teeth coming down on that plump, pink flesh. “I was going to say that I’m glad you’re here with me.”

“So am I,” he told her. “I’m glad we have a chance to talk, just the two of us.” “Ah. What about?”

“Well, it’s a strange thing, this life, isn’t it? It’s not often I really get to know anyone very well before they’re either Turned, or become too old to be eligible, or… sometimes they aren’t people I want to do more than fuck, anyway. Not that they’re bad people, any of those who come here. But there isn’t always a connection that goes past the physical chemistry. And sometimes even that’s fleeting.”

“But you… feel some connection with me?”

“Yes,” he answered simply. He didn’t see any reason to deny it. “Don’t you, Ilana? It seems so to me, though we’ve not had the opportunity to speak of it—or much of anything—before now.”

She was looking at him carefully, and he could see the same wonder on her face he felt himself. He was amazed again at that strange sense of intrinsic guilelessness in her, given where they were, the things that had brought them together.

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