Cruel Shadows: A Monster Romance (Kingdom of Monsters Book 1) by Harper A. Brooks

Author:Harper A. Brooks [Brooks, Harper A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

I’m not sure how long I’m out, and coming back to reality is just as painful as when I’d left it behind. My eyelids slowly flutter open, the pain receding to a dull roar. Tree limbs dance overhead, a darker shade of black than the night itself.

Okay, so we’re in the forest.

I can’t see anything and I close my eyes, the wind howling through the trees and my heartbeat thudding slow and weak.

“You’re awake,” the knight says. “Good. Stay quiet. Don’t move too much.”

We have to be much deeper into the woods than I thought for the light of the castle not to reach us here. I want to ask him about the masked men and how he got us out of there alive, but as much as I hate to admit it, I’m still a bit woozy from the entire ordeal.

Later.

Right now, I just needed to relish in the fact that we’re both alive.

“You…you finally took me somewhere we could be alone,” I joke, though the pain in my side makes laughing nearly unbearable. “Too bad I had to go and get myself stabbed first. I ruined the moment. Didn’t I?”

The knight laughs, a gravelly sound I haven’t heard before, and I instantly love it.

His serious demeanor returns with a vengeance as he hovers over me. “I’ll need to undress you to treat the wound. I tried to get it to stop without doing so and it’s impossible. I’m glad you’re awake.”

“I’m fine,” I insist. “I just need a moment to…” The words fade out as the pain of the wound and the light-headedness of the blood loss take me.

“You need to stay quiet,” he says firmly. “I’m going to take your clothes off. I want you to lie still. Don’t move.”

“I won’t.” I grit my jaw, preparing for the worst.

He nods, drawing in a deep breath. Leaning forward, he gently begins to peel the clothes from my body.

Once I’m naked before him, his gaze roams over me, and there’s a flash of something primal across his face that I saw before, during our first meeting. He clears his throat to snuff it out, though, and part of me wishes he’d touch me like he did then. As stupid as it would be right now.

Laying naked on the cold, wet ground with a hole through your hip isn’t exactly romantic, is it?

Regardless, I catch his gaze flicking from my face to my breasts as he tears strips of the gown and begins to pull off his belt. If I hadn’t lost so much blood, I’d probably be blushing right now.

“I’m sorry in advance,” he whispers as he shifts me to wrap the pieces of fabric around me. He’s done this before, I can tell, but even with his gentle touches, it hurts like a bitch.

I hiss in a breath, holding it in my lungs against the pain of being jostled. With the remaining parts of my clothing now in shreds, I’m left with no choice but to leave my chest completely bare.

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