pdf - Unity.PDF by Linda

Author:Linda [Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T17:26:08.668000+00:00

“Not your fault.” She patted his hand, and the warmth of his touch seared her palm.

Her fingers arched away, and she gripped her cup again in both hands. “And she didn’t warn me about a possible reaction like this.”

Another buzz at the door rolled them into action. Alena clattered her cup back onto the tray and stood hard against the wall. Vadim grabbed his Zahlta. The door ground back, and Gorsky had a leather box and clothes draped over his arm. The boy stepped forward, always facing the weapon Vadim pointed unerringly at him.

“On the couch,” Vadim said.

Gorsky laid the clothes over the high arm and then placed the box on the hard cushions.

“Open it.”

He snapped the locks and lifted the lid. Alena recognised her personal toiletries from her own cabinet. “Thank you, Gorsky.”

“My pleasure, Majesty,” the boy murmured, giving her a low bow. He flicked a look at the flight-captain and the Zahlta and backed out of the narrow door. Vadim palmed the door shut and put his weapon on the desk beside the tray.

“Plan to try on my cosmetics?”

Vadim’s gaze slid to her. “I’ve been in the Guard a long time. There’s not much I haven’t done.”

Alena gave an un-empress-like snort. “Don’t tempt me.”

He seemed to be ignoring her as he sorted out the cosmetic synthesisers, testing them against the back of his hand.

“Spoilsport.”

He gave her a sharp little smile that had heat spiking low in her belly. The instant attraction kept catching her out. But the flirting, the flirting was … nice. Only Sacha felt comfortable enough with her to treat her like a woman anymore.

Vadim handed her the clothes after he had searched them—he had, of course, smirked as he dropped her panties into her outstretched hand—and she headed into the cramped bathroom tucked at the back of the room.

Shutting the door, she sat on the closed lid of the toilet. Washing, brushing her teeth, dressing, that was her plan. But she sat with the box at her feet, her clothes across her knees. She wanted Vadim. Alena doubted she’d ached as much for any man before. Even her teenage obsession with Sacha paled beside the surge of need that flared when she and Vadim touched.

Alena stared unseeing at the tiled floor.

Something he'd said reverberated through her thoughts. Then you’ll change?

Would she? Would she become the emotionless shell her mother had, all feeling pulled from her and pumped into her beloved city, a … being … her mother had loved more than any man and so much more than her own children. Her hands tightened to fists in her clothes.

“Is that who I’m destined to be?”

Her gaze lifted to the low, curved ceiling. Of course, the Talar could break through the city shield, and her being an unfeeling husk wouldn’t matter a bean. A smile pulled at her mouth. Some in her administration—hell, most of them—would be glad to see the back of her sense of humour.

Alena stood. While she had passion, she would enjoy it.

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