Willing Sacrifice (SW 8) by Butcher Shannon K

Author:Butcher, Shannon K. [Butcher, Shannon K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451241115
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2014-03-04T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It had taken every bit of self-control Torr could summon to bandage Grace’s wounds. All he’d wanted to do was press her thighs open wide and kiss her all better—kiss her until the last thing on her mind was pain.

Thanks to her dip in the frozen stream and the need to get her warm, he had now solved the mystery of what she wore under that tunic—a thin strip of cloth that wove around her waist and over her sex, covering less than it revealed. One single tug and the whole thing would have unraveled, exposing her to his fingers and his mouth.

For a second, he had been convinced that she would have let him pleasure her. But then he’d questioned her honesty, and all that languid, womanly heat had evaporated from her expression. Her thighs had clamped shut, and he knew he’d lost his chance at heaven.

It was for the best. He tried to remind himself of that. They were exposed out here. She was wounded. They had a job to do, and every hour they took doing it was one more hour that the women Brenya protected would be in danger.

Taking a break to explore Grace’s body would be as selfish as it was foolish. Still, a man could dream.

By the time they reached the rim of the black crater, he’d gotten his libido under control and his head back in the game.

Grace was about to break the plane of the summit when he stopped her. “What are you doing?”

“Going to get the crystals.”

“We don’t know if enemy reinforcements have arrived. We need to be careful.”

She nodded and eased to the ground. She might have been wearing a brave face, but he could tell that her wounds were painful by the way she moved.

As soon as they got back to the village, he was going to demand that Brenya heal her. He didn’t know if she operated like the Sanguinar, taking payment in blood for their services, but whatever she required of him, he would pay the price. He couldn’t stand letting Grace hurt when there was something he could do to make it stop.

He scanned the area below, watching long enough to satisfy himself that no more enemies had arrived and that the Mason in the crater hadn’t yet had time to rebuild itself.

He whispered to Grace, “I’ll run down there and bust out some of those crystals. You stay here and keep watch.”

“You just want me out of the way.”

“That assumes you were ever in the way, and I can assure you that’s not true. I couldn’t have found this place without you.” And while that was true, he wished like hell there had been any other way.

“Fine. I’ll keep watch over you. What do you want me to do if I see trouble?”

“Yell a warning and then take off toward the cave we were in last night. I’ll meet you there.”

She let out a long-suffering sigh. “You don’t catch on very fast, do you?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

She shook her head.

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