The Lion's Woman by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781452850573
Google: aw6RKQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1452850577
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-04-26T23:00:00+00:00

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Kelly woke to a tickling sensation on the tip of her nose. Thinking, dimly, that it must be an insect, she wiggled her nose a couple of times and finally opened her eyes to a golden brown blur. It took her several seconds to realize she had her nose pressed against Tau—almost. It was his breathing that had caused the tickling sensation. Each time his chest rose, her nose brushed against him. It took her several more moments to realize they were lying in a tangle of arms and legs and that it was going to be difficult to extricate herself without waking Tau.

She lifted her head slightly to assess the situation. Tau was curled around her as if she was a body pillow, an arm and leg over her ... make that impossible.

There was no way to get loose without waking him. She could remain as she was and hope he'd roll over, or she could slip out from under him, which would almost certainly wake him. After several minutes passed and she began to feel numbness seeping into her muscles, she decided on the last, hoping even if he did awake, he'd be too disoriented from being wakened to realize she'd been stuck to him as if she'd been pasted there.

He rolled away the moment she began trying to extricate herself, making her wonder if he'd been awake after all. His eyes were closed when she turned to look at him, however, and she finally decided he must still be sleeping. She left for the pool.

When she returned, Tau was gone. He didn't return until mid-afternoon. While he was gone, Kelly assessed the situation.

She didn't waste any of her time dealing with the past. It was all too easy to get caught up in ‘wish I'd done'. She didn't spend a lot of time thinking about the future either. Considering her situation, that would be almost as big a waste of time, and as much an emotional drain. She could not, she realized, afford to think much beyond the next day and the next week. She might just as well go find a cliff and take a leap if she allowed herself to, because she wasn't going to survive on what if, maybe, or I can't.

The campsite was all right for a few days, but it wasn't going to do for any long term arrangement. They needed something more permanent, or at least she did. Tau was going to figure out fairly soon that she was no longer carrying his child. He might stay with her anyway, because of the trouble he'd gotten into in rescuing her. Or, he might not. She didn't believe the man he'd attacked had died, regardless of the seriousness of the injury. Tau might decide it was easier to accept whatever punishment they decided on so that he could live with his own people. Particularly since he had never wanted to accept a human, in general, or her in particular, in the first place.

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