This Magic Moment by Susan Squires

Author:Susan Squires [Squires, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Susan Squires
Published: 2018-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

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Thomas heard the door open softly and grabbed the pillow he’d been given. His mind was a jumble of questions without answers and a longing for Tammy like pain. He braced himself on one arm and one hip and held the pillow to his loins, covering his needy erection.

A channel of light from the hallway hit him. “Did I wake you?” a female voice asked from the form silhouetted in the hall.

He was breathing heavily. Had the Tremaines changed their mind? Did they send a female to coax him out where they could surprise him and kill him before he could start fires? He felt naked and vulnerable and so far away from Tammy, upstairs somewhere.

“It’s okay. I’m Brina, Tamsen’s mother. I’ve come to help you.”

Well, he couldn’t exactly refuse Tammy’s mother. “I…I am not clothed.” He had never been naked before any woman but Morgan.

“Perfect.” She bustled into the room, closing the door so the only light was from the moon through the windows. “Now just lie on your stomach. I’m going to make you feel better.”

“I’m fine,” he said, hoping to forestall her.

“Nonsense. Devin says you have a burn on your arm and lashes on your backside.”

“The lashes are five days old now. They will soon be healed.”

“Well, I can make that go faster. And I may be able to take care of the burn. Did that happen in the fire at the hotel?”

She was like a force of nature, irresistible. She came around the bed and he had no choice but to lie back on his stomach so she wouldn’t see his parts. But that revealed his back.

There was a long pause. “Oh, my,” she said softly. She took the pillow gently from him and placed it under his head.

At least she probably couldn’t see the scars from the earlier whippings in this light. He didn’t want her to know how disobedient he’d been. She would never think he was worthy of Tammy. “Why would you help a member of the Clan?”

“Oh, I don’t think you’re a real member of the Clan,” she said, settling down beside him on the rug. “You’ve only been in the country, what, three or four days? Now I’m going to turn on the bed stand light.” She moved to do it before he could protest.

There was a small silence. She cleared her throat. “I can’t remove the scars.”

She’d seen them after all. He was very ashamed. Wait. Why did she assume he would think she could remove scars? He wanted to ask her. But he realized that this woman knew Tammy, perhaps better than anyone. That meant there were more important questions to ask. “Will Tammy will be disgusted by such evidence of my failures?”

“No,” she said firmly. “Tammy will be angry at whoever did this to you, but she will, uh, like you, scars and all.”

That gave him hope. “Do you think so? I have failed often. But I so want her to like me.”

“I know so. It’s how it is with us.

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