To Tame a Savage Heart by Emma V. Leech

Author:Emma V. Leech [Leech, Emma V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“Wherein plans are made and too quickly shattered.”

“I should go.”

Gabriel frowned, not liking the idea of Crecy leaving the warmth of his bed one bit.

“No.”

She chuckled, the sound burrowing inside of him somehow, making him feel lighter. They had been here for hours and Gabriel could hardly credit the fact, but he didn’t ever want to move again. He glanced down at her as she turned in the circle of his arms. One hand reached up, her finger tracing the outline of his lips as she sighed.

“I don’t want to, believe me. But they’ll send out a search party if I’m too late.”

Gabriel glowered harder and tightened his hold on her. The idea that he could keep her here if he so chose was like a maggot in his brain. If he married her, she would belong to him. No one could ever take her away. He sucked in a breath as the enormity of that idea hit him. The idea of letting someone else into his life, at working her into the precision of his ordered world, it was terrifying. Crecy wasn’t ordered, she was the closest to chaos he had ever been. There would be forever books and clothes and jewellery and whatever strange thing she had most recently found scattered about his room, about the house. She would be late for meals, she would try and change him, she would probably make him talk to people. The thought made his chest tight, and yet the idea of letting her go back to Longwold alone made him feel strangely hollow; alone in a way he never had before.

It was like being presented with what you wanted and being told it was on the other side of a mountain range that looked nigh on impassable.

Yet he wanted her to stay.

“Thank you for today,” she whispered, her words a soft breath tickling over his skin as her fingers trailed over his chest.

He snorted, feeling bitter all at once. “Well, I did say you’d thank me for ruining you, it looks like I was right.”

Crecy sat up, staring down at him, her face rather stern all at once.

“Stop that, now.”

He glanced up at her, frowning. “What?”

“Stop turning something wonderful into something dark and hurtful. I know you’ll do it the moment I’m gone, that you’re doing it even now.” She sounded really angry, and Gabriel watched her with interest, intrigued in the light of her fury. No one got angry with him, ever. They wouldn’t dare. “I can’t stop how you’ll make this look in your mind, but you hear me now. You didn’t seduce me, you didn’t ruin me, and I didn’t take anything from you that you didn’t want to give, you just remember that. We like each other, we like each other’s company, and that’s all right. It’s allowed. You are allowed to be happy. Everyone is allowed a little happiness, Gabriel, even you.”

He said nothing, too perplexed to know what kind of answer to give. Silence seemed safer.

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