Dakotah's Reading by Jory Strong

Author:Jory Strong [Strong, Jory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic, Romance
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2006-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Dakotah woke up with Domino pressed tightly against her back, his arm draped over her side, insurance that she’d stay put.

Or maybe she woke up pressed tightly against his chest, snuggled close as though needing Domino’s warmth and intimacy.

Either way, it was a first. To wake up in someone’s arms.

She lay still for long moments, savoring it, thinking about it, wondering if it was an illusion. Wondering if the night before had really been about more than sex.

It was daytime now. She could feel it even though heavy drapes covered the windows.

Dakotah turned in Domino’s arms, surprise filling her when she realized that she could see him as clearly as if the room had been flooded with sunlight. The knowledge that she’d gained another edge, one she might need to survive, pleased her, but it also made her wonder what other changes had occurred from taking his blood.

Uneasiness skittered along her spine when she thought about how difficult it had been for her to leave him and go to the campground. How she’d almost felt relieved when it became obvious that Fane and Cable intended to take her back to Domino, whether she was willing or not.

And yet despite her misgivings, her doubts, Dakotah’s womb fluttered as she looked at Domino’s ultramasculine features. Her body grew heavy as need and lust gathered, pulsing through her veins in thick, slow waves, like blood-red water pulled from a deep internal well.

She had so many questions. Questions she needed answers to.

Dakotah shivered, remembering the nightmare days after surviving Anthony Hale’s attack. The lost memories. The lost periods of time. Waking up naked and covered in blood. The terror she’d experienced, wondering if she’d learn that the wolf had killed a child or an innocent. The relief each time there’d been no whisper of lives lost.

There was so much blood on her hands. But none of it coated her conscience.

There were so many things she’d had to do in order to survive. Choices forced on her and she could live with them, burying them in the darkness of the past as she kept moving into the future.

She’d made the decision to return to the clearing, to help Domino back to the house. And yet she still had no idea what that decision had cost her.

She needed to know. Needed to deal with it.

The smell of bacon and coffee drifted in, diverting her thoughts, drawing her attention away from the man next her. Her sense of smell and her hearing expanded so that she knew there was only one person in the kitchen. Kiziah. The footsteps were light, and there was a faint, feminine smell underneath that of the bacon and coffee.

Dakotah slipped from the bed and dressed, taking her backpack with her as she left the bedroom. Kiziah looked up from the stove when she walked in, her face turning pink with embarrassment before she ducked her head and mumbled, “There’s enough for two if you want something to eat.”

It took Dakotah a second to realize what was causing the other woman’s face to flame with color.

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