Finding Lara (Distant Worlds Book 3) by Lucille Kelly

Author:Lucille, Kelly [Lucille, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: KLM
Published: 2015-07-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Lara stood just outside of Barnos’ door and waited for whatever was coming. The guards looked to Forge, but he only had eyes for Lara. He waved them off to other duties without looking anywhere else. She kept her chin high and her face blank.

“You were different with him,” he stated flatly. Lara did not understand the depth of feeling he was emitting. It made no sense in this instance so she focused on his eyes. He allowed nothing to show in his face but she could feel a . . . longing that was more than the lust she was expecting from him. “Answer!” he spat out, a rage that was far and away what it should be for the circumstances, making her jump.

“I know him,” she finally said carefully.

“Do you love him?”

That made her blink and forced the blank expression from her face. It was not a question she had been expecting. In fact, this whole conversation was confusing her. “I don’t know him that well,” she finally answered, clearing her throat at the uncomfortable thought. Barnos was a pirate. A bold, raunchy, outspoken pirate, who seemed to have no normal conscience and delighted in mayhem. He was not the hero of her girlhood imaginings, nor even a good man. By most definitions, he was a very bad man; even she was not naive enough to think otherwise. Falling in love with him would be beyond foolish. Ridiculous and cliché. She was emphatically not in love with him, even if his touch moved her as no one else’s ever had.

“You say that like you mean it.” Forge looked her over carefully, looking for she knew not what.

“I do mean it,” Lara said with firmness, thinking of how dumb she would have to be for that.

“Then you will consider becoming my mate?” Forge’s words caught her off guard, had her coming back from thoughts of Barnos and his mastery of kisses to the present danger.

“I thought your boss refused you,” she said carefully, her eyes on the flash of his as they trailed over her yet again.

“I am Brutan; I am not so easily ruled.” His words were proud.

Lara tilted her head and wondered if she was finally experiencing a lost in translation moment. She licked her suddenly dry lips. “I don’t understand. You are bound to the Hyperion’s rule as much as any of the slaves here. Frot can order me dead or to someone else as he sees fit and you would obey him. How would I be your mate?”

“I am not a slave, not anymore,” he said, his eyebrows lowering in anger. “I have earned my place here. I have earned the right to mate.”

“But . . . you can’t, can you?” She wondered if she looked as confused as she felt. “I mean, not with me, not without permission.”

“If anyone tries to take you I will kill them. I could leave this place anytime. I am not as kept as they think I am.” He ran a finger down her cheek, his voice lowering.

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