Punished by Tana Stone

Author:Tana Stone [Stone, Tana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Broadmoor Books
Published: 2021-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Ch 18

Corvak

“Sienna?” The female heaved in ragged breaths as her body shook. Her hair was tangled around her face and tears streaked her dusty cheeks. “What happened?”

She swiped at her eyes as she looked up at me. First her expression was relieved then it darkened. She slapped at my chest. “You didn’t show up!”

“I was running late,” I said, glancing around the pathway at the nearby dwellings and the windows covered only by filmy curtains. I didn’t tell her that I’d been running late because I’d been talking myself in and out of my deal with her most of the evening. That wouldn’t calm her down, and if she persisted in shrieking, the entire village would wake up and find us together.

“Running late?” She pushed away from me, her face alight with anger. “How could you be running late? What could you possibly be doing? It’s the middle of the night?”

One of the nearby curtains fluttered. Tvek. Before she could raise her voice again, I clamped a hand over her mouth and spun her around so that she faced away from me. I lifted her up and held her flush to my chest as I rushed back up the path and burst into my quarters.

She thrashed against me, but I jerked her to me, whispering into her ear. “I’ll let you go if you promise to stop making so much noise. I don’t think either one of us wants to explain what we’re doing together in the middle of the night, and if you keep yelling, we’ll have to.”

Her body went limp against mine, and she nodded. I released her, dropping my hand from her mouth and uncoiling the arm I’d had around her waist.

Sienna spun around and slapped me, her eyes blazing. “That’s for lying to me. You weren’t running late, so tell me what happened.”

I stared at her as my cheek stung from the impact of her hand. Instead of angering me, her blow made it even harder to resist her. Watching her chest heaving and her face flushed from rage, I wanted nothing more than to crush my mouth to hers. Which was exactly why I hadn’t shown up to teach her, and what I couldn’t tell her.

Even though Vandar didn’t lie, I couldn’t admit to her or myself that I was so weak as to desire the female I’d promised to teach. A human female, I reminded myself. The very last thing I needed or wanted. After all the trouble human women had caused me, how was it possible that one occupied my thoughts like Sienna did?

I clenched my teeth as I stared down at her, the urge to fist my hands in her wild hair almost uncontrollable. I would have to lie, as distasteful as that was to me.

“I learned something from your planet’s ministers. Something that made me realize that I need to work harder to ready your people for impending war.”

Sienna’s mouth opened slightly. She hadn’t been expecting me to say that. “What do you mean war? Kimithion III has always been a peaceful planet.

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