Hinekiri by Shelley Munro

Author:Shelley Munro
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sci-fi romance, alien contact, aliens, New Zealand
Publisher: Munro Press
Published: 2015-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Hinekiri stood and slid her feet from the shoes before kicking them under the bed. Swallowing, she inhaled deeply and attempted to stuff the pain she normally kept tucked away out of mind, back into hiding. It didn’t want to go, so instead she sought distraction.

Richard.

The man was everything she’d ever wanted. Everything she’d never have since she was destined to remain unmated. “What about it, sailor?” Hinekiri managed a wink as she sauntered closer to the tall, silent male. The knowledge that his marriage hadn’t been a total success was a surprise, but he had children—a son and a daughter. Hinekiri had no one to love and pass on the wisdom garnered from her years. Apart from Janaya.

Janaya was the closest thing to a daughter she would ever have, which was why Hinekiri was so determined Janaya didn’t go through the ceremony with Santana. The male was a worm despite his noble status and she couldn’t think of a worse match for her niece, no matter what the horoscopes forecast. She forced a smile and trailed her hand across Richard’s shoulder. The warmth from his body seared through the thin cotton shirt he wore, the heat as hot as the intensity in his brown eyes.

“Why do you call me sailor?”

“You remind me of a friend. He traveled through space, mostly trading but doing a bit of piracy. Glaxo always considered himself a sailor, voyaging through the universe.”

“A boyfriend?” Richard’s words were gruff and held a demand to know.

Hinekiri’s smile was gentle and understanding as she peeked at Richard through lowered lashes. When it came to possessiveness, she was beginning to understand. She shouldn’t feel jealousy toward Richard’s wife yet she did. “Glaxo died many years ago in an interplanetary war. You look a little bit like him.” If he knew about her unsuccessful relationships—the mummy’s boy, the abuser, the sex addict. Oh yeah, she could pick them all right.

“Oh.” Richard planted a soft kiss on her forehead.

Hinekiri frowned. She wanted more than a pity kiss from him tonight. Her head jerked backward and her chin thumped him in the nose.

“Ow!” He held his nose before gingerly touching the painful spot with his fingers. “What did you do that for? If you don’t want sex, all you have to do is say.”

Of course she wanted him.

That was the problem. She wanted him too much.

“Sorry.” Self-pity surged from deep in her heart, curling through her body and the far reaches of her mind. Every time she found a male she liked it all went wrong—dreadfully, horribly wrong. The horoscope her family had commissioned was accurate and she was destined to live alone. Sadly, it had taken her time to believe this truth. “I can’t seem to do anything right.” To her mortification, tears formed in her eyes again. She was turning into a water fountain. Fodo crap, she wasn’t going to cry. She was not.

Richard rubbed his nose in a rueful manner but his eyes gleamed with hot intent. “I don’t intend to let a little accident stop us from making love.

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