Dragon's Melody by Bell Ophelia

Author:Bell, Ophelia [Bell, Ophelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Melody had to quell the sick feeling in her stomach as she rifled through the closet to find fresh workout gear. Tears sprang to her eyes. She was failing. At the contract, which should have been the simplest thing in the world to follow, but really it was the hardest.

She’d read it all twice. She knew what she was in for, but she hadn’t counted on her “keeper” to be so … her entire torso tingled with the thought of what Garen was. Was there even a word to describe a man as attentive and attuned as he was? So easy to be with one moment and then making her want him like crazy the next?

And then there was Skye. The wildcard at first. At least that’s what she’d considered him until the day before. All she’d experienced until then was his tongue and nothing else.

The man himself was beyond imagining. Her skin still tingled from his touch. Oh God she probably still glowed, too ….

She shut the closet door and turned off the light, just to check. In the full-length mirror, stark naked, her pores glimmered with faint light. It looked like constellations flickering on her skin. Like she was the representation of some smaller imagining of a goddess.

“Oh, fuck,” she said. How the hell did you spend the day with a guy you liked when you were filled up with the energy of the guy you just fucked?

“He knows,” she told her reflection. The understanding that Garen was fully aware of her connection to Skye didn’t help, though.

A knock sounded at the door. A moment later it opened.

“Melody?”

“Go away!”

She heard a dismissive snort and then Garen’s face was in the mirror’s reflection.

“Why are you hiding?”

“Because I’m afraid of you.”

He frowned. “Why?”

Why? Fuck was that the question of the century. Why, indeed. Why because I want you and I don’t want to want you. Why because I want you AND I want him. Because I thought I knew what I wanted before this all started and now I’m not so sure.

Oh, God did she want Skye and hated like hell that he was disappointed in her. And there was Garen on the other side of the door, a man she knew could take her to just as spectacular heights of pleasure, yet he was tasked with only taking her to the last camp before the summit while Skye got to see her the rest of the way to the peak. She’d thought she wanted what Kol had awakened in her, to give in to him completely, but the more Garen tested her, the more she wanted nothing to do with the damn contract. She wanted to do everything except what the contract required—but she wanted the rewards of it, too.

“I want to fuck you.” That was honest enough, right? Except it was really so much more complicated than that.

“Me too. But that’s a line we can’t cross.”

Melody blinked at her reflection, surprised by his confession and entirely unequipped to figure out how she felt about it.

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