The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole

Author:Kresley Cole
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Vampires, Azizex666, Adult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Nothing in Nikolai’s human life or his vampire existence had prepared him for living with a Valkyrie.

Myst had boundless energy, she was powerful, and she exuded an otherworldly sensuality that set his blood on fire. Each night he traced her to different locations to make love to her. He’d taken her against the foot of a pyramid, gazed in awe as she rode him on a moonlit beach in Greece, licked her sex beneath a redwood until she begged for mercy…

Throughout those nights, once he and Myst had worked the edge off their need, they talked for hours as he learned more about her and her kind. He’d given her the cross she’d admired at Oblak, but when the jewels glinted in their room’s gaslight, she’d seemed to go into a trance. Finally, he’d covered it, and once she’d shaken herself, she’d admitted, “We all inherited Freya’s acquisitiveness. Shining things, jewels and gems … We can’t tear our gaze away without training for years and sudden glittering is sometimes irresistible.”

Nikolai had inwardly cursed that she had this vulnerability. He’d thought the Valkyrie were an almost perfect creature—no need to eat, immortal, strengthening with age—but he’d since learned that they were one of the few species of the Lore that could die of sorrow. And if one was weakened, then the others suffered since they were all connected with a “collective” power.

He couldn’t always be there to protect her. Though he’d tried to use the chain as little as possible, he’d whispered to her as she slept that she would no longer have these weaknesses.

Nikolai would have been content to hear only about her, but she’d been surprisingly curious about his past. He found himself revealing things he never had to anyone, yet feeling unburdened from it.

He’d told her of the night he and Murdoch returned home to find their other six siblings and their father on the verge of death. Myst’s eyes had watered as he’d spoken of the gut-wrenching decision to make them drink. Then had come the agonizing vigil as they’d wondered if their family would be reborn, any of them. In the end, they’d lost their father and sisters, but regained their two brothers.

The night he himself had “died” fascinated her, and she repeatedly asked him to tell her the story of how he’d made demands of Kristoff. She never failed to tell him how proud she was of him—a sentiment that made him feel particularly uneasy. These days there wasn’t much he was proud about. He avoided Kristoff, telling him little when they did meet. He was coercing his Bride to stay with him, and he suspected that if, at the end of the two weeks, she wanted to leave him, he’d break his vow to her in a heartbeat’s time.

He sought any hint that might tell him how she felt and what she might decide. At times he was optimistic. When they fought mock battles with a game based on military strategy, she seemed to enjoy herself with him—and to like the fact that he always beat her.

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