A Scot's Resolve by Sky Purington

Author:Sky Purington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Time travel
Published: 2020-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

WHILE SHE COULD say she didn’t know what possessed her when she lay down the ultimatum that she intended to be with Cray or his brother, she knew deep down nothing possessed her at all. She was, for the first time in her life, being assertive about what she wanted.

That, as it so happened, was Cray.

God knows he wasn’t easy, but when her dragon gentled beneath his touch, she knew for certain he was the one. He was somebody she certainly never saw coming into her life, but without question, belonged in it.

If, of course, she could get to the man beneath.

The one her dragon saw clearly.

The person, if she wasn’t mistaken, that he used to be before all the heartache.

So she had handled him the only way she knew how based on the short time she’d known him. She outright challenged him with who he cared about most. Who he considered genuine competition.

Marek.

Then she walked away.

Honestly, she wasn’t a fan of ultimatums, but she needed to break down Cray’s walls and help him if she could. He needed to face his past and not be afraid of his future. Could she help him do that? She had no idea. But she had to try. She needed to help him like he had helped her. Because nothing had been as terrifying as shifting against her will.

And nothing had been so relieving as his calm, supportive presence.

She grabbed her satchel and made her way to an alcove around the back where she could swim in private. Yet she had no intention of swimming. At least not right away. No, she had thrown down the gauntlet. Now she was waiting.

Would he come?

Would he try to win her the way he knew she wanted to be won?

Not with him between her thighs but in her heart.

Hoping she played this correctly, she sat on the shore with her back against a tree and waited. And waited. Then waited some more, her heart sinking along with the sun. Though tempted to seek him out, she stayed put.

He had to come to her.

Then he had to start opening up.

Her gaze fell to her ring and its colorless stone. It hadn’t shined once yet. She didn't think it would either. Not until he truly believed that his past wasn’t going to repeat itself somehow.

“You dinnae know that, lass,” he said softly from the darkness, clearly having followed her thoughts. “You cannae promise that.”

She hadn’t realized how shallow she had been breathing until she knew he had come, and her lungs filled with air. He was reaching out. Trying. Which meant he wanted her, too. Beyond the flesh to something deeper.

“You’re right, I can’t promise you I won’t be cast under a spell,” she replied, certain she was right about her inner beast. “But I can promise you that my dragon would do anything to break free from it. That it would do anything to be with yours.”

“Aye.” She could hear the frown in his voice as he referred to her nightmare.

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