Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow

Author:Kirby Crow [Crow, Kirby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9781603704885
Google: tgbPPAAACAAJ
Publisher: Torquere Press
Published: 2008-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Breathe, he prayed.

A third time, Liall forced air into Scarlet's lungs, but this time, Scarlet hiccupped and Liall felt his lips move. Liall drew back and gave a shout of relief, laughing aloud in pure joy when Scarlet coughed and his eyes opened.

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"Liall?" Scarlet choked, his voice raw and thin. "What happened?"

"Hush. Just breathe, Scarlet. You're safe."

"Safe," Scarlet murmured. "Help me up."

Liall grasped his arm to help him stand, but Scarlet gasped and fell back.

"My shoulder," he moaned. "Oh, it hurts..."

Liall moved his coat and shirt aside and hissed at the purpling bruise that was forming. "Does it feel broken?" he asked.

Scarlet winced. "I don't know," he said in a rasping voice.

"I've never ... broken anything before."

"Let me." He slipped his hand inside the fabric and tried to feel around the raised flesh for blood or splinters of bone, but Scarlet gasped and moaned loudly the moment Liall's fingers probed the egg-sized lump. Liall readjusted Scarlet's shirt tenderly, leaving the injury alone. There was nothing he could do here.

"You need a curae," he said. "I think he knocked a chip out of the bone."

Scarlet nodded and Liall saw the bluish-white ring around his pale mouth. He was close to fainting again. "Stay awake!"

he commanded, harsher than he wanted to be. "I do not know the village. You must show me where you live."

"Wainwright's Lane," Scarlet whispered. "Have you seen my dagger? I lost it..."

Liall helped him to stand, but Scarlet swayed even as he got his feet under him. "Forget the dagger, where is the lane?"

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"Third cottage ... on the right ... past the..."

And then his eyes rolled up in his head and he fainted. Liall caught Scarlet before he fell and hauled the pedlar up in his arms, carrying him through the snow like a child.

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9.

Two Coins

"Hello in the house! Open up, for Deva's sake!"

The door was thrown open and a middle-aged man stood there. He had a shock of dark hair gone steel gray at the temples and he clutched an iron fire poker in his hand. The man opened his mouth to speak, then he saw what Liall carried and his jaw dropped. Behind him were a black-haired woman and a slip of a girl with features very like Scarlet's, and Liall knew he was at the right house.

"A brigand," Liall explained hastily when the older man hefted the poker menacingly. "I found him on the road. Let me in, old man, your son is injured!"

"Scaja!" the wife flailed at his shoulder. "Open the door!"

Scaja backed down and swung the door wider, though he did not put the poker down. Linhona darted to the back of the small dwelling and moved aside a heavy woolen curtain.

There was a narrow bed behind it and Liall moved to lie Scarlet down. He settled Scarlet on the covers and turned to her. "Have you a healer in the village?"

Linhona shook her head, white-lipped with fear, her eyes all for her son.

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