Hold by Zannie Adams

Author:Zannie Adams [Adams, Zannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2007-10-22T12:32:33+00:00

Chapter Four

Time passed strangely in the Hold.

Each day seemed to drag on forever but the string of days—one after the other, each exactly alike—seemed to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Riana sometimes had trouble keeping track of how long she’d been here. It felt like forever since she’d arrived. It seemed like she’d known Cain—been fucking him—all her life.

But each morning when she woke up, she tried to tick off the days on her mental calendar. Today she thought she’d been in prison for a little over two months.

Cain had been here a lot longer.

This morning, as soon as the lights came on, he got up as usual and headed for the bathroom. But instead of washing up and starting his exercise routine as usual, he crawled back into bed with her when he came out of the bathroom nook.

She rolled over on her side to peer at him. “You feeling all right?”

He had an odd look on his face but he didn’t look sick or upset. “Yeah.”

“Horny?”

Occasionally, he jumped her as soon as they woke up, but he usually did so before the lights came back on.

Cain gave her a half-smile and made a throaty humming noise that might have been an affirmation.

But he didn’t roll over on top of her and he didn’t reach over to pull her close. He just lay on his back, one arm crossed beneath his head, and stared at the ceiling.

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Genuinely confused by this change in his normal routine, she propped herself up on one elbow and stroked his chest with the other. His torso was solidly muscular, with rippling planes, coarse dark hair and tight skin. “Cain? What’s the matter?”

“Nothing.” He turned his head slightly so he could gaze up at her, his oddly pale blue eyes skimming appreciatively over her warm, rosy face and messy hair. Then they shifted down to her firm breasts, which were bare and exposed because she was holding herself up and the sheet had slipped down to her waist. She’d gone to sleep naked last night, since she hadn’t felt like putting her dirty clothes back on after she and Cain had fucked.

“You’re acting weird,” she told him, playing idly with one his nipples.

He gave a soft grunt. “I’m not sure, but I think today might be my birthday.”

“Really?” She grinned down at him—although it was a silly thing to be excited about, given their circumstances. “How old are you?”

“Thirty-six today. If I’ve kept track of the days right since I got here.”

She chuckled and stroked her hand up his chest to his neck. And then she caressed the stubbly skin of his jaw—enjoying the rough texture of it. “Getting kind of old, aren’t you?”

He just smiled at her teasing. A real smile. The one she hardly ever saw.

Pleased with her success, she leaned down to press a soft kiss just next to his mouth. “Happy birthday,” she murmured huskily. “Shall I give you a present?”

Cain gently pushed the hair back from her face as she mouthed a trail along his jaw.

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