The Starlight Odyssey_A Historical Romance Part One by Rose Dalziel

Author:Rose Dalziel [Dalziel, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

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Dawn arose, waking Chastity as she sat up from the bed. Her hair lay damp from washing it the night before as she stretched her limbs.

Familiar piercing ocean blue eyes found hers as her vision became clearer. Raphael was already awake siting silently on the wooden chair in the corner, his face looked ragged and deprived of rest.

"Hope you are fully rested, we leave soon." Raphael told her in a groggy voice and began coughing not a moment later.

Chastity stopped trying to fix her hair to get up and go over to observe him. She took his face in her hands abruptly and studied him closely.

His usual light tanned face had gone slightly pale, dark circles were revealed under his eyes and his lips were slightly cut and bruised.

"Did you not sleep at all?" Chastity asked, her tone full of concern as she ran a hand over his hair but brought it back down to feel his forehead.

His skin was burning up.

"You're getting a fever!" Chastity panicked as she withdrew herself to rush and get a cold wet cloth before returning to press it on his forehead.

His eyes studied her tirelessly, staying still to let her place the cloth on his forehead.

"You don't have to..take care of me, it's my job to look after you." Raphael muttered.

"You should have slept." She scolds him and his eyes lock onto hers with an unreadable emotion.

"You consumed my thoughts, so I couldn't." He confessed boldly, causing her hand to tremble against his forehead. His hand reached out to steady hers, keeping his eyes on her, they roamed over every feature of hers and she felt foreign to the feeling.

The burly man in the bar may have watched her with a lustful eye... but the way Raphael was watching her now was not so, it was one of what she would hope to think of as...adoring.

She shouldn't hope that's how he was looking at her, it wouldn't do her any good any way.

"Thank you for last night...all of it." Chastity blurted.

Raphael's lips twitched into a crooked smile as he let out a grunt of acknowledgement.

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