Life and Water: The Elementals: Book One by Melanie Gilbert

Author:Melanie Gilbert [Gilbert, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Sylee

I woke up in a bed. It was the most heavenly feeling I had had in a long time. Even though it was a hotel bed, it was softer than the ground in the forest, or the dirt and sticks in the vampire trap. I was warm and my head was on a pillow. I sighed in contentment. Then I felt movement next to me.

I slowly rolled to look over my shoulder and found my mate asleep next to me. He was shirtless, and I had to admit, I took a few minutes to slowly admire the view from top to bottom and back again. This time, I didn’t fear embarrassment from being caught ogling him.

I had told my mate that I had prospects for a good husband. Truth be told, no one came close to him in the looks department. They were decent human beings, except one who was so self-centered it was a chore to be around him. He put my mate’s arrogance to shame. They were all muscular young men, they were training in Light academies so they worked out a lot, but none of them held my attention like this man.

My hand reached out with a mind of its own and started tracing his muscular features, up and down his arms and then over to his toned abs. After a while I hit a spot that made him twitch.

“Are you awake?” Please don’t say anything! Please be asleep!

“Yes.” Of course you are, I wanted to say. “Please don’t stop.”

I hadn’t expected that from him. Ego and that little smirk of his was what I expected. I wasn’t ready for the physical affection part of our relationship. I had been having a moment and now it was broken, and I was blushing with embarrassment. Again. I hoped I hadn’t given him the wrong idea. I was not ready for the birds and bees yet.

He opened his blue eyes to look at me. I didn’t want to appear weak, so I forced myself to look back into those beautiful orbs. The ice in them had melted since Bard took me. At least when they looked in my direction they were more liquid than ice now.

“I need to get cleaned up,” I said and rushed off the bed to grab my bags. Then I hurried into the bathroom and locked the door. I leaned my head on the door and let out a huff of air at my confusion. The man I had hoped would learn to at least like me had done so, but now I was running from him. What was the matter with me?

With a great sigh, I turned the shower on. The warm water was relaxing after cold ponds and streams. I stayed under the running water longer than necessary for a regular person, but in my opinion, it was just long enough for a person who had been forced to live in a forest for an obscene amount of time.

I was happier after I’d dressed in clean clothes.

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