Dark Hunter 34 - Dark Bites: A Short Story Collection by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon [Kenyon, Sherrilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Collections & Anthologies, Paranormal
ISBN: 9780312376864
Google: G8PQmwEACAAJ
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-01-21T06:00:00+00:00

5

Velkan ached with a pain that was second only to impalement. His Dark-Hunter powers should have healed him by now… it told him just how severe his injuries had been that he was still hurting from them.

He turned as he heard the door open.

It was Esperetta, and there for a second he was back five hundred years ago when they’d shared this room together, when she had willingly joined him here every night.

Once he’d reclaimed this house after his death, he’d taken great pains in making her room down the hall look just as it had when she’d lived here. But though her personal items were there, she’d never really used it for anything other than dressing. In contradiction to the customs of their time, she’d shared this room with him for sleeping… and for other things the memory of which warmed him completely.

Wincing, he could still imagine the way her scent had clung to his sheets and pillows…

The way it had clung to his skin.

Be strong, Velkan. He had to be. The last thing he wanted was to let her hurt him any more than she already had.

She came forward a bit hesitantly before she set the tray down on the table by his bed. Her long hair was pulled back into a ponytail and she looked extremely tired. And yet she managed to be the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. “Do you still prefer your steak served with onions and stewed apples?”

Her question surprised him. He couldn’t believe that she’d remembered that. Nodding, he watched as she pulled the silver top off the platter and then uncovered the onions.

“Are you not eating?” he asked as she handed him the plate.

“I’ll just take some of the bread. I’m not really hungry.”

He shook his head at her. “Bring the bread plate and split this with me.”

“You need it.”

“I will live and I can send for more. Now bring me the plate.”

She arched a brow at his sharp tone.

“Please,” he added, softening his voice.

Retta paused at that. This was a man who was used to issuing commands. To her knowledge, he’d never even uttered “please” before. Her heart softening, she picked up the plate and did as he asked.

“Thank you,” she said as he halved his food with her. “By the way, I have a bone to pick with you.”

“Only one?”

She smiled in spite of herself. “At the moment.”

“Then I can’t wait to hear it,” he said before tasting his steak.

“ ‘Bram’ and ‘Stoker’?”

He laughed, a deep, resonant sound. “It was fitting, I thought.”

Retta growled at him. But she didn’t mention her room, which she’d seen the night of her arrival. It had been an eerie reminder of their past and it had brought home to her just how much Velkan loved her. Even if he denied it, she knew the truth. Everything had been laid out as if he’d expected her to return at any moment.

When she’d seen it, she’d actually sat down on the floor and wept over her own stupidity.

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