Nero Nights: A Space Fantasy Romance (The Neron Rising Saga Book 5) by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor [Taylor, Keary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

We hunt. We gather. We explore the valley and the mountains around us. We wash in the lake. We talk.

We live.

Another six days pass in the blink of an eye. Time goes by so fast when you’re happy.

We’ve just come in from a full day of gathering wood. It’s obvious now that winter is going to arrive shortly. I don’t know what we’re doing, but over the past few days we’ve been gathering more and more food, stockpiling it in the kitchen of the ship. We’ve been taking containers down to the lake and filling the water storage tank in the ship. We’ve been gathering wood to burn for when it turns cold.

We’re preparing for winter.

I’m still cold when I get out of the shower. We got the power to turn on today in the ship for an hour when we got back, just long enough for both of us to take our first hot shower since we crash-landed a few weeks ago. But we were outside for the entire day today and neither of us has a coat.

My teeth still chatter when I step out of the washroom and make my way through the sleeping quarters.

“Come here,” Valen says.

And I smile when I see that he’s pushed three of the beds together, making one huge bed. He’s piled all the blankets and pillows on it. He wears only his under things and opens the blanket for me to climb in with him.

I drop my towel on the floor just to the side of the bed and climb into the nest with him.

His skin is warm and I don’t know why, but I blush slightly as I think about my bare legs against his bare legs, and my bare arms brushing his bare arms.

“You’re like ice,” Valen says, his brows furrowing as he rubs his hand up and down my arm, trying to warm me up.

“Think you could stitch all those pelts together and make me a coat?” I say with a little shivering laugh.

“Of course,” he says, and his tone makes me think he’s wondering why he hadn’t thought of it before.

I laugh but I turn my face and bury it into the base of his neck. I breathe his natural scent in, and I’m washed in comfort.

“I’m not the kind who likes being taken care of,” I say softly, my words scratchy and tired. “I’ve been known to be a knucklehead sometimes when it comes to my own independence. But I…I love how you take care of me. I love the team we make.”

“I’ve never had anyone to take care of before,” Valen says as he wraps his arm around me, pulling me in tight to him. “I’ve never wanted to do anything for anyone besides myself, and what I had no choice but to do for Cyrillius. I can’t say it’s natural, but it feels good.”

I smile, marveling at how he’s changed. He still has his darkness. I still feel that raw power and potential for violence in him.

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