Fire Born (City of Dragons Book 5) by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [St. Crowe, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2016-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Lachlan was sitting on the couch next to me. “I’m not sure we can trust it,” he whispered.

“I know how you feel,” I said, still puzzling over it all. All this time, it was the whiteflame that made us powerful and crazy, not the blood sharing. All this time, we’d been keeping our hands off each other, sleeping in separate beds, both in our own private agonies. Had that been for nothing?

No, it couldn’t have been. I didn’t trust the results, because I didn’t want to believe—

“But there was evidence,” said Lachlan. “Real solid evidence that it’s okay for us to…” He reached for me. He brushed my cheek with the back of his hand.

I smiled at him.

And then we were kissing—long, slow, deep kisses.

He pulled back. “Unless you think that drinking your blood now would charge up the whiteflame more? Maybe we shouldn’t…”

I pulled him down to kiss him again. “We should.”

He made a strangled noise, one of surrender, of release.

I pressed close to him.

* * *

Later, we lay on the bed in the bedroom, both naked, Lachlan’s body wrapped around mine.

I lay on my side, out of breath and happy. “I didn’t think that was going to work,” I gasped.

“It was, uh, definitely a little more complicated than the last time we did it.” He was a little out of breath.

“But worth it,” I said.

“So worth it.” He kissed my bare shoulder, one arm snaking around to put his hand on my belly. “I love you, Penny.”

“I love you too,” I whispered.

We lay there, entwined in companionable silence.

I felt very sleepy. I was going to drift off like this. Right here. With Lachlan close. With everything perfect.

But then my hips started to hurt. I groaned and yanked a pillow up off the floor and tucked it between my legs.

“You okay?” murmured Lachlan, his hand trailing over to my hip and then resting on my thigh.

“Mmm hmm,” I said, snuggling back against him.

“Good,” he whispered in my ear. “I missed this. I love falling asleep with you.”

“I love it too,” I said.

We were quiet again. I felt sleep starting to come for me, to lull me away…

But then there was a sharp pain in my back. I wriggled a little, thinking maybe if I twisted…

“What is it?” said Lachlan.

“I need… I usually sleep with a pillow at my back,” I said.

“Okay,” said Lachlan, grabbing one and putting it between us. “There?”

“Yeah,” I said.

He tried to wrap himself around me again, but it didn’t really work. He flailed around a minute, then seemed to get comfy and stopped.

But I wasn’t comfortable. I tried moving the pillow a little, but Lachlan was in the way.

He chuckled. “Hey, how about I move over here, huh? You get all the pillows you usually have. It’s fine.”

I looked at him. “But I wanted us to be snugly.”

“We were for a while.” He planted a kiss on the tip of my nose.

I pouted, but then I nodded. “Yeah, that makes sense.” I started piling pillows around myself, everywhere I could.

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