Fly: Goose Girl Retold (Romance a Medieval Fairytale series Book 3) by Demelza Carlton

Author:Demelza Carlton [Carlton, Demelza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lost Plot Press
Published: 2017-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Yun paced the walls, unable to get the image out of his head. Of her, his wife, the pretty princess stretched out on his bed in a shift so thin he could see every delicious detail of her body through it, which should have aroused him beyond belief, if it wasn't for her expression.

Her squeezed shut eyes, her wobbling lip, her clenched fists on either side of her throat…as though she expected to be punished.

What had she done to deserve punishment?

Nothing, he told himself. She wanted peace, the same as he did. She had consented to the marriage, and shown courage when his father had humiliated her before the court. She had even spread her body out on the bed, a sacrifice to this marriage alliance she wanted…but not with him.

I am not my brothers, Yun raged inwardly, wishing he could shout it at the top of his lungs. Everyone already believed he was mad, but until today, they'd have been wrong.

And he didn't dare tell anyone what he'd done. He was a man, and it was his job to shed blood in the name of war and peace. As a woman, she shouldn't need to. So he'd turned his dagger on himself because he couldn't bear to hurt her…and he refused to let anyone suggest the marriage hadn't been consummated. If their marriage dissolved, there would be nothing to stop his brothers from hurting her. As it was…it was only their love for their youngest brother that kept her safe. He prayed that would not change.

As a cold wind started to blow, Yun warmed himself by imagining what it might be like if Ava was willing. If one night he entered his bedchamber and found her with her legs and her eyes open, wearing a welcoming smile. How he would cradle her delicate, birdlike body as he made love to her, eliciting gasps of pleasure from her, not pain. Not just once, but all night, or until she lay in his arms, spent, with a smile on her lips that not even sleep could wipe away.

Bliss, surely.

But not tonight.

So Yun continued to march along the walls, staring out into the darkness for an enemy he could not see, wishing he was in his bedchamber with the lovely woman who had somehow bewitched him without one whit of magic.

Ava, the wind seemed to whisper, but Yun closed his ears to it.

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