His Human Bride by Anne Bordeaux

Author:Anne Bordeaux [Bordeaux, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-18T13:49:50+00:00

Chapter Five

The next morning, Breccon woke up with the suns, one hand still clenching his dagger and the other wrapped firmly around Katharine’s waist. He’d fallen asleep in this protective pose sometime in the early morning after a night of restless sleep. The only thing keeping him remotely calm was the knowledge that they would be at the Temple of Kaal-Nokt before the day was out. After the inevitable adrenaline rush that came from a good battle—not to mention the triumphant sharing of body and soul he and Katharine joined one another in afterwards—he should have slept soundly through the creeping Rune-Yonian night, but he found himself tossing and turning, rattled by every crack of a twig or rustle of a bird’s wings. Less than a day’s journey separated them from the Temple, but anything could happen in that small stretch of time. His injury could worsen. More raiders could come after them. Katharine could announce the futility of this entire journey and demand to return home to Earth. All night these terrible possibilities haunted him, and when the suns rose, he realized there was no point in fighting his fear of them any longer. Sleep would not return; he might as well face his own waking nightmares.

Three challenges of the Kaal-Nokt had passed them, three challenges that had been decidedly less traumatizing than he feared. The legends of the princess Kaal-Nokt and her Tallel soldier had them fighting off rumbling armies single-handedly and sinking pirate ships with nothing but Rahi stones. Of course, the tales were hundreds of years old... And would a princess and a warrior have told anyone that the stones wanted nothing more than to teach them lessons of the flesh?

Breccon stopped himself short. No, they weren’t just lessons of the flesh. They were more than that. He counted back through the days and the challenges they faced. Being with her under the song of the birds, having to hold her so delicately, it reminded him that they couldn’t always take love so seriously. After his almost punishing lovemaking to her in her cell, he needed that reminder. Having to watch her from across the waterfall, unable to touch her... It told him he loved her even without the physical, that in spite of the circumstances surrounding their first meeting, he still loved her even when removed from her. And in their battle he saw the truest mark of Warrior love, of a Ress as his people saw them. He was willing to fight alongside her.

These questions still haunted him, even after Katharine woke and they made their final hike towards the Temple. Breccon could not help but focus on one striking truth. Those were all lessons he learned about how he loved her. He still had no idea, no clue, if she truly loved him. It made every step up the final mountain heavy with uncertainty. Not even her bright optimism and hope, played like perfectly tuned lyres as she spoke through their trek, could distract him.

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