Kiss Across Chains by Tracy Cooper-Posey

Author:Tracy Cooper-Posey [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781927423943
Published: 2013-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Brody made love with a fierce relentlessness, taking her again and again. His need might have lingered for hours except for the fact that he was human in this here and now. Once his human body had been fed, watered and the first hot driving edge of his need had been satiated, the next most critical biological priority asserted itself: Sleep tried to claim him.

Brody fought it off with a shake of his head and by grinding the heels of his hands into his eye sockets. “It’s barely past two a.m. I just got here. I won’t waste this night by sleeping it away,” he growled, reaching for her.

“Your body will shut down on you whether you want it or not,” Taylor warned him as his lips trailed between her breasts. “You’re sleep deprived and your biorhythms are naturally low right now.”

“Shut up and kiss me,” he demanded.

But exhaustion was a force Brody could not ignore, bargain with or work around. Barely fifteen minutes later, he yawned mightily, his lips brushing over her hip bone, then lifted his head and swore softly.

Taylor drew him up to lie alongside her on the divan. “Just rest for a few minutes,” she suggested. “Even a catnap of five minutes might refresh you enough to keep going for a few more hours.”

Brody rolled onto his side and tucked her up against him. “This feels…” he murmured, his voice thick with sleep.

“Strange,” she finished, agreeing with him. “It’s usually me who gets to fall asleep in your arms.”

“I don’t even know if I snore,” he whispered.

Taylor muffled her laughter because the heavy exhale that he gave told her he had fallen asleep already. He had been fighting it off too long and as soon as he relaxed it took him.

She turned under his heavy arm so she could see his face. His eyes were closed, the thick black lashes resting against the pale flesh of his high cheekbones. He was a beautiful man, and when he was completely relaxed like this, it showed far more easily than when his wariness and guard was raised as it was so frequently when strangers were around.

Taylor only realized she had drifted into sleep herself when soft sounds and movement on the other side of the room alerted her to intruders. She jerked awake as Kale hurried across the room, carrying a lamp. Kale’s face was impassive as always, but barely three paces behind her were Brody’s caped and hooded guards.

Taylor shook Brody awake, cold fear washing through her. She had only just drifted off herself, so Brody had been asleep a few minutes only. It could barely be three in the morning.

The guards had returned too early.

Taylor shook Brody harder. “Braenden. Wake up now,” she called in the ancient Greek they used in this time. She shook him a third time, then slid out from under his heavy arm and grabbed the white cloth she had used as a sarong earlier in the evening, and wrapped it around her, hiding her nakedness.

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