Three Dead Land Brides (The Dead Lands) by Kati Wilde

Author:Kati Wilde [Wilde, Kati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kati Wilde
Published: 2023-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Aruk the Unbound

Savadon

As dawn crept across the sky, Aruk knew that he would not leave his wife.

But he had known it before—on bloodied sands and in chains. Perhaps he had known longer than that, from the long days when she’d still been recovering from the wound in her side, and she’d told him of Savadon’s war-torn history.

Now his fingers lightly skimmed over the scar that wound had left as Jalisa lay sleepily atop his chest. Their hands were still bound, but although dawn had come, he was in no hurry to unwind their marriage ribbon.

After the second time he’d had her, she’d called for the bodies and his chains to be taken away. In the ceremonial chamber they’d remained, with its balcony that seemed to open up to the sky…and look down into the bay that was the heart of Savadon.

“Might I set up a watch up along the docks?” he asked softly.

“You are king,” she murmured against his throat. “You can do anything you like. Who would you be looking for?”

“Tournament contestants returning to Aremond.” For they would have to pass through Savadon to reach that kingdom. As all trade to the realms south of the Illwind Sea did. “Little sense it makes now to go chasing after them. Our paths might too easily cross—especially if they sail south as I sail north. But I know the names and faces of all the warriors who entered the tournament. Their descriptions I could give to the watch. So if my brother has failed…then it would be I who makes certain the gauntlet never reaches Solegius’s hands.”

“And so you would still fulfill your duty.” Her voice sounded thick. “But also you would stay?”

“Yes.” Though he must tell her, “If I ever hear again that the gauntlet might fall into unworthy hands, I would have to go. Though it does not happen often. This is the first time in six generations that warriors of the Fang Clan were called to our sacred duty.”

“If you go, then I would, too. We would leave Savadon in a good advisor’s hands, and an adventure I would have. And so you are staying?”

Her voice broke. And that was the second time she had asked—as if she had not believed the first. Rolling her onto her back, he saw the tears on her lashes.

“Did you think I might not? You are my heart, Jalisa.”

“I knew not if you would have a choice. And you did not spend inside me.”

He brushed away her tears. “Because you said not to.”

She blinked. “I did?”

“You asked me not to when you hired me. And said you wanted to choose when you would have children, to wait until you were ready.” Which Aruk had no argument with. This was the freedom his wife needed. So he would give it to her.

“Oh.” She softly bit her full bottom lip. “With you, all is different. I am ready now.”

Never had his cock hardened so fast. And she laughed at him as he spread her legs and pushed inside her, but on the next thrust her laugh turned to a pleasured gasp.

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