The Loyal Steed: Part Three (The Pleasure Hound Series) by Ines Johnson

Author:Ines Johnson [Johnson, Ines]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartspell Media, LLC
Published: 2015-05-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

The drive outside of the city took Liam a few hours. The paved roads turned to gravel and then to a green carpet. There wasn't another house for miles. Liam could just make out the smoke from a chimney in the distance. He pulled up to a quaint little cottage and parked his conveyance.

"This is it?" Liam turned to Jaspir. "This is your dream home?"

They'd come straight here after Liam took Jaspir to the landowner's offices. Liam paid the remainder of the debt to the landowner, who looked over her shoulder at Jaspir. Jaspir fidgeted behind Liam. His protests, after he'd left the courthouse, had grown more and more lackluster. All fight had gone out of the male. His money had been stolen by some fiend who was long gone. Jaspir had a good idea of who the culprit was. The concierge who had greeted Liam at each of his visits to The Stallion, save the other day, had mysteriously disappeared. The platinum-haired male could be found and prosecuted. There weren't many places to run and hide. But the matter would take time and the land would be gone by then.

The look on Jaspir's face now as he looked up at the worn structure was one of rapture. Liam had seen the same look on his face the night he'd taken off Merlyn's shirt, when he and Jaspir beheld her naked form.

Jaspir's throat worked but no words came out. Jaspir nodded in answer to Liam's question. Tears pricked at the edges of his eyes. Liam thought he should look away at such a private moment, but he couldn't tear his eyes from the man.

Liam had to wonder, had anything ever inspired him so much? So much that he shook just standing before it. So much that his mouth parted in awe and his heart sank into his chest.

Liam looked away from Jaspir when the answer came through to his mind. He'd spent years licking up the crumbs of affection Merlyn tossed over her shoulder to him. And they weren't true crumbs. He knew that now, after he'd had her in his arms, had been buried deep inside her body, had tasted the sweetness of her lips. The mere thought brought a tightness to Liam's chest.

Tightness at the thought of her, despair at the loss of her. He had no clue what he would do next, where he would go, who he would even be. He'd put everything he had into being what Merlyn needed. Without her, he didn't know who he was.

"Would you like to come see it?"

Liam's instinct was to turn away from Jaspir, to hide his uncertainty. An uncertain mathematician, that was a joke. When he turned back to Jaspir, Liam saw that the male's expression was open, an invitation. They both disembarked from the conveyance.

The steps were crumbling on one side of the porch. The railing rusted with a few spaces of the metal missing.

"It's going to be a fixer upper." There was no shame in Jaspir's voice.

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