The Warrior's Salvation (Warriors of Eriu Book 1) by Mia Pride

Author:Mia Pride [Pride, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mia Pride
Published: 2017-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Clarice awoke with a start. She felt a large, heavy body weighing her down and began to thrash wildly, pummeling her fists at any part of the body she could reach while screaming in terror. At first, she thought she was having a nightmare, for the world around her was pitch black, but the sound of leaves rustling above her head snapped her back to reality. She was still in the woods and Gregory was pinning her down.

“NAY!” she cried as she tried to shove his solid weight off her, but she was much too weak and her shaking limbs only hindered her ability to fight.

“Clarice,” she heard a calm, familiar voice soothe against her ear. “Tis Jeoffrey. You are safe, love.”

All the fight drained from her body instantly as relief washed over her. All the memories of that night flooded her mind: her abduction, Gregory’s admission that he had killed Harrold and Paulene, his story about why he had fled Ériu…and then the terror of his forcing himself upon her. That’s when details went hazy.

Somewhere between his foul breath against her neck, the feel of his enormous weight pinning her down, and the sound of her dress being ripped from her body, she had gone into some form of shock. Perhaps it was better that way. There had been no way to escape, though she had fought and failed. Her shocked state had deadened the memory, but not nearly enough to help her forget.

Then Jeoffrey arrived and Gregory’s weight went limp atop her body. The fear of suffocation had taken over her then as her lungs compressed. She was certain she would die at that moment. A crack had rent the air…and then blood…so much blood. Her body shivered at the memory. Blood had always made her abnormally queasy, but seeing Gregory laying there with his blue gaze staring at nothing would haunt her forever.

Now she was safe with Jeoffrey. Realizing she was back in his arms, she clung to him, feeding off his strength and warmth. He murmured reassuringly into her hair as he rocked her small body in his lap, but it was enough to make her stop quivering in fright and hold on tighter.

The strength of his body against hers had always been her safe haven. Nothing in the world had ever felt more right to Clarice than when their bodies came together. It healed her. It made her whole. It erased pain and strengthened their love. Clarice had always sought solace in Jeoffrey’s arms and he had always willingly given it. It was not only because he was a man and she a woman. It was a special bond only they shared. It was a bond of the soul, their souls.

She knew Jeoffrey had shared his body with many lassies before they had found love, and she assumed he had shared his body many more times during her four-year absence, but that never bothered her. She knew what she felt, what they shared, was

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