Hidden Coven- The Complete Series by Kim McDougall

Author:Kim McDougall [McDougall, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, Fiction: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781999410742
Publisher: Wrongtree Press
Published: 2019-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

Passion

Something woke me. I lay in the dark listening for the scrape of a foot or scratch of a claw—something to let me know what disturbed my sleep. The night was eerily silent. No frogs or crickets chirped this early in the year. No wind tousled the bare branches.

My unzipped sleeping bag let my heat stash escape. I was cold to the bone. Quinn’s warming spell must have worn off. I didn’t want to wake him. He tried to hide it, but he was tired and over-extended in the aether department. And I didn’t dare try an unknown spell. My track record wasn’t stellar. I’d probably set the tent on fire.

I re-zipped the bag and hunkered down inside, hoping to regain the lost warmth.

A branch cracked outside.

I sat up, staring at the tent wall glowing faintly in the dying moonlight.

“Bobbi?” Quinn said groggily.

“I heard something.”

Another small sound came from outside. A shuffle of leaves? Or just my tense imagination? A rustle, this one closer, then the sound faded as if moving off.

“Probably your raccoon friend,” Quinn said.

I nodded and shivered.

“You’re cold. Let me warm your sleeping bag again.”

“No. You’ve done too much magic today.” I thought he’d protest or downplay his illness like he always did. Instead, he grinned.

“I guess we’ll have to warm up the old-fashioned way.”

“I don’t think that would be a good idea.” Sleeping next to him with wads of sleeping bag between us had been hard enough. I wasn’t sure what my treacherous hormones would do if we were trapped together in the same bag.

“You wouldn’t deny a sick old man a bit of warmth on a cold night, would you? Strictly an energy-sharing arrangement.” He faked a cough. His eyebrow quirked up. Gods, I’d missed that look.

“Of course.”

In the tight space, we somehow reformatted the sleeping arrangements by zipping the two bags together into a double-sized bed. I snuggled into it, my back pressed against Quinn’s chest. His left arm draped across my hips. I squirmed to get comfortable, and his erection nudged my back. I tensed.

“I’m sorry.” He scooted backward. “You just feel so good, and it’s been so long since I held you.”

“It’s okay. I’m not made of glass.”

“I don’t want you to think I would ever pressure you.”

“I don’t know. Something is putting an awful lot of pressure on me.”

He shifted and the pressure in question only slid across my butt.

“You know what I mean. You have every reason to need your space. I won’t invade it. Not mentally, at least.”

“Maybe I’d welcome a little invasion.” Suddenly I had no good reason to keep Quinn at arm’s length. The feel of his kiss lingered on my lips, and I couldn’t deny that I wanted more.

I turned awkwardly in the confines of our bed.

“I asked you for time and space to think. You gave me more than I needed really. I’ve come to terms…” My voice broke and I gave a shaky laugh. “Well, maybe not. I don’t know if I’ll ever accept what happened.

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