Lois Greiman by Seducing a Princess

Author:Seducing a Princess
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He stepped closer. He was not a giant of a man, but evil came in many sizes and was oft impossible to identify immediately. Had she misjudged him? she wondered, but she didn’t retreat.

“For helping me,” he explained, and took hold of her arm.

“I’ve no idea what you speak of.” She tilted her head and scowled as if trying to see his expression in the darkness. “Perhaps you’re confusing me with Gem.”

“You knew,” he said, his eyes gleaming with bright intensity in the darkness.

Her heart lurched, but she held her ground. “I do so hate to be the one to tell you,” she said. “But I fear you may have lost your mind.”

He gritted his teeth as if wanting to shake her. “Are you trying to say Poke always sleeps so soundly?”

Dear God, she’d guessed right! He had sneaked into Poke’s bedchamber. He had hidden beneath the bed, and sometime during the night, he had managed to creep back out. She had almost convinced herself that she had imagined the entire episode. Had certainly hoped as much. But in the small hours of the morning she had heard a faint rustle of noise. Had heard and hadn’t dared to do so much as glance up, lest she disturb Poke’s slumber. Her stomach churned at the thought of the consequences just avoided. Damn him! Did he know nothing of pain, nothing of death? she wondered, but she gritted a smile. “’Tis difficult to say. Whyever do you ask?”

“You gave him a potion.” He bored her eyes with his own, but an eternity of uncertainty was there, an ocean of roiling confusion. Even in the darkness she could see that much. “You knew.”

“Knew what?” she rasped, and yanked her arm from his grip even as she skimmed the darkness, searching. There were spies. Everywhere. Always.

A host of emotions flashed across his face, but finally he shook his head. “Tell me, Princess, how can he keep himself from you?” His voice was low and entrancing. But he did not reach out, did not touch her.

And yet she was falling, losing her footing, slipping into the abyss of his earnestness. “I don’t know what you speak of,” she repeated, but her voice was weak and trembled dangerously. Could he hear it warble? Could he feel her frailty?

“You lie,” he said, and in that moment she knew he sensed her weakness, for he did the unthinkable; he told the truth. “You knew I was in your chamber. You knew, and you protected me.”

“You’re insane,” she whispered, and desperately wondered if it were true.

They were face-to-face, so close she could feel the warmth of his breath on her cheek. The world slowed. Their gazes met and melded. And then he kissed her, not with wild heat or frenzied lust, but with slow, deadly tenderness.

He pulled away, his eyes finding hers again. “Why?” he whispered. “Is it because…Might you feel something for me?”

Her knees felt weak, and her hands trembled, but fools died bloody, and their friends died with them.

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