Fever--A Dark Kings Novel by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The next morning, Bernadette stood beneath the spray of the shower so long that her fingers began to turn pruney. She didn’t care, though. It felt too good.

Her mind drifted, thinking about Keltan’s kisses, his hands on her body, and the way he’d so easily pleasured her. It was all she could think about, actually.

Not even contemplating Usaeil or the fact that Bernadette was going to attempt to deceive the queen entered her mind. She was utterly, completely filled with thoughts of Keltan.

And it hurt her more than she cared to admit that he hadn’t been there when she woke.

He must have had his reasons, though. At least that’s what she kept telling herself. Not that she would ever get to hear what that reasoning might be. She was under no illusion that she would see Keltan again, even if the Dragon Kings had allowed her to keep her memories.

That thought bothered her more than the idea that she could lose her life while going up against Usaeil. It was silly, really. She knew very little about Keltan, but she knew that she liked being with him. And she enjoyed how he made her feel when they were together.

She was no great master of reading people, but she got the sense that he had been nothing but honest with her from the very beginning. And she, in turn, had given him the same honesty.

It was so refreshing, that it might very well be the reason she was infatuated with him.

Bernadette shook her head, rolling her eyes at herself. It was just like her to start to have feelings for a man she couldn’t have. To make matters worse, she couldn’t even get angry thinking Keltan had used her—because he hadn’t. If anything, she had used him.

She leaned forward and put her forehead on the shower wall. There was too much going on. She needed to stop thinking about Keltan and get her head straight for when Usaeil came because she knew the queen would come very soon.

And it would take everything Bernadette had to try and outwit and outsmart Usaeil. In truth, she wasn’t sure she could do it, but after what the queen had done to her, she was absolutely going to try anything to get back the self-respect she’d lost. Even if that meant going up against a powerful supernatural being.

“Are you going to get out sometime soon? Or am I going to have to make you come out?”

Bernadette’s head snapped up at the sound of Usaeil’s voice. She looked through the steam and out the glass to see the queen standing in the middle of the bathroom. “Can I have some privacy?”

“I don’t like to be kept waiting, and you’re not doing anything but standing there.”

“I’ll be out in just a second,” Bernadette said and turned her back on Usaeil.

There was a loud sigh and then nothing. Bernadette glanced out the glass to find the room vacant. She turned off the water, wrung out her hair, and then reached for the towel.

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