The Kraken King Part VI by Meljean Brook

Author:Meljean Brook [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-05-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-four

Through the window, the stars still ruled the sky. Aside from the distant sound of the ocean below, all was quiet. Ariq didn’t know what had awakened him until he heard Zenobia’s sigh.

Wearing her nightdress, she lay against him with her warm bottom tucked against his stomach, her head pillowed on his left biceps, and her breast cradled in his right hand. Mara and Cooper had told him that she never slept well. Apparently not even in his arms—not even after the night they’d spent, turning to each other again and again. Even Ariq had been worn down by the end.

Worn down, yet full of hope. She hadn’t only let him into her bed; she’d accepted his seed. His wife was far too practical to risk a child if she didn’t intend to stay.

And her walls were crumbling.

Not quickly. She hadn’t declared herself yet. Perhaps she’d decided to wait until her brother arrived before fully committing—following her sensible plan to learn more about each other first.

Ariq knew all that he needed to, but he could be patient. Zenobia Fox was well worth waiting for.

Her soft nipple hardened against his palm. She suddenly lifted her head and looked back at him, as if realizing that he’d woken. Long strands of hair tickled his ribs as she turned in his arms and slid her slim thigh between his. Shadows concealed her expression, but a flash of teeth revealed her smile. She angled her face up and gently kissed him.

“Good morning,” she whispered, then laid her head on his arm again.

Though there was no one else in the chamber to wake, his reply was as quiet as hers. “Good morning, wife.” If the heavens smiled on him, he would say it every morning for the rest of his life. “You can’t sleep?”

“No.”

“Why?”

She shrugged a little. “Thinking.”

And it troubled her enough to keep her awake? “Of what?”

“How to kill someone. Whether it should be quick—or more affecting to let him suffer for a while. And if I should make it obvious who murdered him or reveal the truth later.”

Her story. Before she’d fallen asleep the previous night, she’d laid her notebook and pencil by the bed. Now he understood why. As soon as she discovered her answers, he expected that she would be scribbling them down.

She shifted her weight, wriggling closer to him—and stilled. “Are you ready again?”

For her, he’d always be ready. But although his cock had been stiff since waking, he hadn’t been thinking of taking her again so soon.

Not until she’d suggested it. Immediately his erection hardened further, began to ache. His palm slid down her back to grip her hip.

“Do you want to?” Upon her hesitation, Ariq realized he’d asked the wrong question. “Are you sore?”

“A little.”

“Then we’ll wait.”

She shook against him with a muffled laugh. “I thought yesterday would be the end of waiting. But now I’ll be desperate for tonight to come.”

Ariq would, too.

Her forefinger trailed down the center of his chest. “You don’t mind?” she asked.

“That you’ll be desperate?” Not at all.

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