Alien Prince Protector (Space Marine Hospital Book 3) by Harlyn Moxie

Author:Harlyn Moxie [Moxie, Harlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473580421
Publisher: KDL Publishing
Published: 2021-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

20

Emery

I study Kam’s eyes as best I can as they’re glinting at me through the gloom of the cupboard and can come to only one conclusion.

He’s one hundred percent serious.

“Thanks for the permission. If I want to hurt you, I probably will. Maybe I won’t be able to help myself. Who knows? I’ve been called a psychopath by a psychologist, so there’s a chance I lack the empathy required to feel bad about it, but it doesn’t seem like a super-important issue, since pain seems to turn you on.”

“A little,” Kam agrees. “It’s complicated… Emery?”

“Mm?”

His big hands slide slowly up my body, his palms gently cupping each curve along the way until he’s cradling my face. His thumb lightly sweeps over my lower lip as my breathing gets shallow and quick.

“You have plenty of empathy.”

“I do not.”

Kam’s thumbs stroke my cheeks, and he presses his forehead to mine. “I’ve felt it.”

“You have not!” I growl, trying to twist free of his grasp.

He holds firm as his fingers work themselves into my hair in a way that makes every single one stand on end. I shiver as the tip of his nose glides over my warm cheek in a sweet, nuzzling gesture while he makes a soft, soothing noise.

“Okay,” he whispers as his lips softly graze my jaw. “It’s not a weakness, but okay. We don’t have to talk about it.”

“Good.”

I tilt my chin upward in an invitation for him to continue his exploration. His touch is gentle, and it feels kind of nice. In a way. Sort of dangerous, yet… sweet and innocent. I can handle that level of danger.

Kam takes the bait, and his lips trail down my neck.

It’s not awful, I’ll give him that much. His delicate throat kisses actually feel kind of good, which is weird. Don’t predators rip out the throats of their prey? I probably shouldn’t have given him easy access to such a thin-skinned, assailable part of me, but he’s using it so well… all tenderness, without a hint of aggression.

I relax a little, and it gets even better.

Until he makes a pained noise, and it sends an unexpected shiver through me. “What?”

“Everything,” he whispers against my skin before pressing a long kiss to a sensitive area where I would imagine my pulse is strongest. It’s probably thumping against his lips like a boxer working a speed bag right now.

“Everything?”

“Yes. My every sense is filled with you — to the exclusion of all else. You are… everything.”

He makes it sound as if that’s both the best thing that could ever happen and also somehow the worst — so I let him think it. It seems like a safe balance.

Grunting softly, he kisses my throat again and then lifts his face level with mine.

“I’ve kissed women before,” he says, almost shyly, as if he must confess to such a thing before he can kiss me.

“So you’re not a monk after all?”

He sighs softly. “I just wanted you to know…”

“Consider me informed.”

He emits a low rumble. “I wasn’t finished.

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