Throne of the Horde King (Horde Kings of Dakkar Book 6) by Zoey Draven

Author:Zoey Draven [Draven, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

It was late into the night but I had energy as if I’d just slept for years.

I was sated—for now—and sore. I was in Arik’s arms, listening to the steady thump of his heart, thinking that nothing had ever felt so good.

Had I really thought I could be with anyone else? Had I really thought that I could find another male, one that would even come close to what I felt for Arik?

It seemed foolish now. Maybe that was why he’d been so upset. Because he’d found the notion as ludicrous as I was finding it now.

“You’re not tired?” came his rumbling voice as his fingertips slid down my arm, grazing it back and forth, stroking me while I arched into his touch.

There was a part of me that feared sleep. To lose this moment. Because when I woke, I didn’t know what I would find. Would our bubble burst? The quiet understanding that I’d felt grow between us?

I didn’t want the outside world to rush back in. Selfishly, I didn’t want to think about the fog. About the heartstones. I didn’t want to think about discovering that Arik was actually the Dothikkar’s son. I didn’t want to think about what that meant. About what it meant for us.

But I would have to.

“Are you?” I asked softly, turning to meet his eyes.

“You’ve kept me awake for days,” he informed me. “So lysi, I am.”

He hadn’t slept because we’d been…on edge with one another?

I swallowed down my guilt and said, “Then sleep. I’ll watch over you now.”

His low chuckle made a soft smile cross my features, one he watched with lazy eyes.

“I find that I can’t. Even though I want to,” he told me.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because we left things between us unresolved. I hate the feeling of it. I cannot sleep, knowing what I will wake to.”

A feeling of dismay crashed down. I didn’t want to talk about this now. But Arik seemingly did. What if we fought again? What if this hazy, warm spell was broken between us? Like a perfect glass ball bursting on the ground, shattering into a million pieces?

“What do you want to talk about?” I questioned softly, turning in his arms, as if to remind him that I was naked and relaxed next to him. That he had the furs of my bed drawn up around us. That he wouldn’t be returning to his own soliki this night…unless we argued again. “And can I distract you away from it?”

“Nik, you cannot,” he informed me. I grinned when I heard the uncertainty in his voice, however. He groaned. “Female, cease. Have mercy.”

“All right,” I whispered. Then I sighed, my gaze flitting away, to rest on the notch of his throat.

Arik was silent for a long while, so long that I felt hope rise in me. I felt hope that he might decide not to talk about anything tonight.

Then he said, “There’s something you should know. Something you should’ve known before I ever touched you. But I was so out of my mind for you.

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