Winter's Kiss by F. E. Heaton

Author:F. E. Heaton [Heaton, F. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781456489892
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Winter’s Kiss – F E Heaton

back beneath his shirt and then played with the strands of his long black hair as she smiled to herself.

She was a woman.

Winter’s woman.

Nothing would change that, not even him leaving.

She was his.

And she would wait for him forever if it took that long.

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Winter’s Kiss – F E Heaton

Chapter 10

Winter stared ahead, always ahead. Since leaving the barn at nightfall, he hadn’t looked at Nika once. It was a conscious decision. He had fallen asleep shortly after making love to her, slipping into blissful dreams that had felt like torture when he had awoken to realise that they weren’t real. Reality was far harsher and far gloomier.

He moved with the motion of the horse as it walked along the lane, following the tyre tracks of the vehicles that had passed this way and had compressed the snow into ice.

His mind ran over his moment with Nika on a continual repeat. It replayed every action and feeling he had experienced this morning, only this time, it was sheer torture. What had he been thinking? What she had proposed had been nothing but a sweet fantasy. He had known that this would affect them. He couldn’t touch and taste her and not be affected by it, not be hurt.

Leaving her would have been hard enough without having kissed her or felt her body against his, now it seemed impossible and he didn’t know whether he had the strength to go through with it. He craved the taste of her and it wasn’t just his hunger speaking. Her blood was sweeter than any he had tasted before, sweeter because she gave it freely, because she wanted him to drink from her. Never in his thousand years had anyone willingly given him blood.

Closing his eyes, he cursed his weakness and turned his face to one side, ashamed of himself. He was a commander, a Watchman of Validus, a trusted soldier.

Many of his kin had commended his pride and sense of duty. His lord had rewarded his strength with the position of commander, a rank that few held.

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