Tallchief for Keeps by Cait London

Author:Cait London [London, Cait]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2013-11-04T06:00:00+00:00

He’d come through years and crossed continents to find her.

Elspeth lifted her head as his footsteps rose surely to the door of the room. He paused, then, moved into the bathroom, and the shower ran. The water stopped, then silence.

Alek loomed in the doorway, framed by moonlight skimming his shoulders and down his spread legs. He hadn’t given her the concession of a towel around his hips.

She wasn’t making concessions, either. “You will not come to this bed with thoughts of your wife, Alek Petrovna. Not with my weaving on your wall.”

“I wouldn’t think of it.” His tone bore arrogance and a taunt and just enough uncertainty to curl around her heart.

He moved to her, filling the room. He’d hurried, droplets gleaming on his shoulders. A deep scar crossed his ribs, another rode his hip and the moon-light caught the smooth expanse of healed burns. Alek appeared battered and toughened by years, his cheek-bones rugged and darkened by stubble, his jaw tense. The dim light angled off his broken nose, LaBelle’s earring gleamed in his ear and Elspeth ached to feel the soft flow of his curls against her breasts.

She gripped the shawl tightly and forced herself to continue, ‘That is my price, Alek Petrovna. I will not have you take me with a sense of guilt. I’ll know it if you do and I will not forgive you. Pretty apologies won’t work.”

“Pretty…?” He tensed, the moonlight shafting over angles and taut muscles and cords that ran down his arms to his fists. His feet locked to the pool of moon-light on the old braided rug. The heavy muscles of his legs stood out in relief; his desire jutted into the silvery light, startling Elspeth. Or did her body startle her, desire streaking through her, cords igniting, clenching, heating?

A shudder ran down Alek’s body. “I can promise not to hurt you…but I can’t promise to forget that night completely.” His voice was ragged, rimmed with naked, deep emotion.

“You won’t hurt me. I ask that you try to forget.”

He took a step. “They say you inherited both seer and shaman powers. What do your senses tell you about me, Elspeth?”

She already knew. “That whatever happens, you will try to please me.”

“I will be careful.” His promise came firm and raw.

“Do and I’ll kill you.”

Alek’s grin was slow in coming. “Now, that’s my girl.”

For a moment, Elspeth was startled. She’d never been anyone’s girlfriend; she hadn’t allowed the possessive tone from anyone, not even her brothers. She found herself blushing as Alek came to the cot and stretched out slowly beside her, his hands behind his head. She lay there, the shawl drawn to her chin, and wondered what to do; her confidence of moments ago had vanished.

“We can lie here and admire your weaving technique, or you can simply take me…I’m yours,” Alek murmured, his body heating her side like a furnace. He lifted a challenging eyebrow at her. “Lost the mood? Have a headache?”

“You’re taking up all the space.” She couldn’t breathe.

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