Seduction of a Psychopomp: Erogenous Hand Holding and Other Ways to Tame your Reaper (The Boundlands Series) by Elsie Winters

Author:Elsie Winters [Winters, Elsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-07-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Celeste

I drew my hand back slowly, skimming my fingers down to his wrist as I wondered if, perhaps, I’d bitten off more than I could chew. His fingers caught mine when I reached his hand, and he held me trapped in his gaze like that for several more moments before heaving a rasping breath, a reminder that I’d forgotten to breathe as well. When he finally turned his head back to his book his eyes followed last. He returned to reading with an audible swallow, and I lowered my gaze to stare at his hand still laced in mine. I sat still as a statue beside him since I didn’t entirely understand his reaction, but I was incredibly intrigued and filed it away for future inspection.

By the time dinner came, I’d managed to shake off the tense feeling between us. Perhaps it was just me feeling that way, I didn’t know, but I began to wonder if I had made a mistake in pushing him as far as I had. I knew it was greedy, but I wanted his body and his heart. I wanted to be a proper husband and wife. I didn’t like the thought that my family wouldn’t see us as truly married in the state of limbo we were in. I’d thought before we married that the most I could really hope for in an arranged marriage was a companionable relationship and wanting more wasn’t in the cards, but I wondered what it would take for me to win the rest of him in addition to his hand. Maybe a spirit guardian’s heart couldn’t be won. Hearts were something I didn’t have a lot of experience with. I fell asleep pondering this dilemma, which probably wasn’t the wisest thing because it affected my dreams.

“Celeste.” Something brushed my cheek. “Celeste, wake up. You’re crying.”

I sucked in a gasping breath, grateful beyond measure that he’d pulled me from that nightmare. I’d been right back in that agonizing moment where I realized that my mother hadn’t been mistaken when she relayed to me, as I was being dressed in my wedding gown, that my closest friend had left the city and wouldn’t be attending my ceremony. I’d been absolutely convinced that she was wrong. Apollo is my oldest friend, I’d thought. Of course he would want to see me off when I left, even if he didn’t care about weddings. We’d played together and gotten into mischief since we were little children. He’d been the golden child, the court’s favorite little ringlet-haired pretty boy who’d snuck me silly books and hung all my terrible paintings on his walls. We’d talked about everything. He knew it was a scary moment for me. He knew why I had to do it. Of course he’ll be here, I’d thought. We’d always been there for each other. I’d entertained him with puppet shows when he’d flown too close to the cliffs and gotten caught in an updraft as a child, requiring that he convalesce for weeks while his leg and wing healed.

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