Prince of Seduction by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: DL Grant, LLC
Published: 2013-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Elric saw the fear enter Marin’s hazel eyes and regretted it instantly. “There is much we still need to discuss,” he said quickly. “If I let you return now, you may leave, and if you leave and I return without a mate, my city and all its people disappear.”

“What?” she cried as she scrambled to her feet. “Why are you lying? I liked you, Elric. I had even hoped to see you again, but your stories are scaring the shit out of me.”

He knew he was making a muck of things and wished he had Sorin’s smooth tongue to aid him now, but his gift had been seduction, not talking. He stood and walked back to the window where he looked out over the village. He didn’t like this future time he was in. Things were too different, foreign. He saw signs of his Scotland, but it wasn’t the same. If only he could return to Drahcir.

“I’m no’ lying. Nothing I’ve said tonight has been fabricated.”

“Then let me leave.”

He dropped his head against the cool stones. How he wished he could ask his father for advice. “I can no’. All of my people are counting on me.”

“Please,” she cried and moved toward the door.

Elric wanted to let her leave, to see the trust once more in her eyes. He couldn’t take her back to Drahcir unless she was willing, and she was certainly anything but willing. Yet, he couldn’t make her stay here either. If he wanted her to trust him, he was going to have to trust her as well.

“Before I take you back, I must tell you the rest,” he said as he faced her.

“There’s more?” she asked, her eyes wide.

He nodded. “If I had never found you, you would’ve been able to go about your life as normal. I’d have had to return to my kingdom and watch it and all its people disappear forever.”

“But you did find me,” she said softly.

“Aye. And now that we’ve shared our bodies, things have…changed.”

Her tongue peeked out to wet her lips. “How exactly?”

“We were given special ways in order to be able to detect our mates.”

“What was yours?”

“Just a sense,” he said. “A rightness about you that was lacking in all the others.”

She smiled and leaned against the door. “Go on.”

“Even though we were given the special ways to help ensure that we didna make a mistake, the Fae gave us another way of seeing we made the right choice.”

“And what would that be?”

Elric sighed, knowing this might be the one thing that sent her screaming from him. He quickly removed his tunic and held out his left arm. Even in the dim candlelight, the markings were beginning to darken.

“A tattoo?” Marin asked.

“In a manner,” he answered. “It has always been on our skin, but when we find our mates and share our bodies, it brings out the markings.”

“It’s beautiful,” she said and ran her hand over the intricate knotwork that ran from his shoulder to his elbow.

“You’ll have one as well.

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