Run with the Moon by Bailey Bradford

Author:Bailey Bradford [Bradford, Bailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2014-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

When the kiss ended, Aaron’s head was spinning.

Everything he had thought and feared had suddenly been altered. He wasn’t being sneered at or punished because he wasn’t like everyone else he knew. He wasn’t going to be forced to fake an interest in a woman, or to help make children. His father and mother seemed to believe he’d been running away despite what he said otherwise, and they’d worried they were going to lose him. Now they were doing everything they could to make sure he knew he was loved.

Maybe they’d all needed a shake-up. At some point, Aaron had forgotten that his parents loved him, and wanted him to be happy. With all the work required day in and day out to survive, happy had always been an unrealistic dream when combined with Aaron’s hidden desires.

“How do shifters live?” Aaron asked of Valen.

Valen’s thick eyebrows drew together over his nose. “What do you mean?”

Aaron shrugged. “I mean, like for us, there are so many chores to do day to day just to survive. Hunting has been scarce, and all the chickens we had were killed by a fox months ago. Father sent someone to the next village over to try and trade for more, but they never returned here. The last three people who’ve been sent out haven’t come back. The gardens are dying no matter what we do. Food is becoming a true source of concern. I just look at us, at my people, and wonder how much longer we’ll be able to make it.”

“It sounds like you have had a few rough years,” Valen observed. “We aren’t that far from your village, and we’ve plenty to hunt. Gardening… Well, we’re shifters, more of a carnivore than not. Our shaman has some greens she grows. Potatoes, too. She also has several fruit trees, apples and oranges, lemons. Our homes have been around for many, many years. They are well built. We don’t seem to have the problems your village is having.”

Aaron poked at the ground with his cane. “I think about death a lot, I guess because it happens so often. We just lost one of the babies last month, and Arial Jutto, she caught some kind of coughing sickness and passed, too. There’s no reason for who death takes sometimes. It scares me, but it also…” Aaron inhaled shakily, then exhaled slowly. “It also seemed like an answer to the turmoil in here.” He touched his temple. “No one in our village is like me, Valen. I thought something was wrong with me, to want what I want.”

“Like you how?” Valen asked. “Because I can tell you, no one else is like you. Aaron, you are fascinating, and I want you. Not just for a night, either. I want to see if we’re as compatible as I suspect we are. What did you mean, though?”

Aaron’s heartbeat sped up. “If we are compatible, then what?”

Valen raised Aaron’s hand to his lips and kissed his palm. “Then we discuss what it means for me and you to be mates.

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