Shadowlands Omega (Beasts of Gatamora Book 2) by Elizabeth Stephens

Author:Elizabeth Stephens [Stephens, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2024-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

17 | Yaron

Shadow Keep

“If I’d known you’d be like this, I’d have let the blacksmith flog me days ago.” She hasn’t stopped touching me since the square. Her touch is heavenly. I’m lying on my stomach on the bed at her insistence while she cards her fingers through my hair and applies more cooling rags covered in healing salve and aloe to the deepest lacerations across my spine.

“I knew you did this on purpose. Taking so many lashes just to win over me and my family.”

“I am sorry, Kiandah, that they had to endure any pain at my hand at all.”

“You did the right thing. At the church. In the dungeons. And here in the Orias marketplace, you did the only thing you could have, really. The villagers would never have given us back the respect we lost. You restored some of our honor. Now, we might have a chance to rekindle some relationships, get our jobs done, maybe even restore our friendships. Justine was rooting for us out there. She’s one of my friends. I never thought she’d talk to me again after your Riders killed Tor.”

I’m quiet. It’s hard to know what to say next. I am filled with regret and yet, I am not sure I would have changed my actions if I could go back. “I am sorry, Kiandah, for those that you’ve lost at my hand.”

She doesn’t answer right away, and when she does, she redirects, “You know, I happen to like looking down at you like this, below me on the bed.”

I smirk, thrown by the sudden power I hear in her tone. “And why is that?”

Her fingers are strong and sure against my scalp, distracting me from the pain of my wounds. “You can’t meet my gaze and reduce me to rubble with that smoky stare.” She bends down and whispers against the back of my hair. Her breath is warm and contrasts against the chill of the healing strips and I shiver. She laughs menacingly and I feel it when she says that I’m vulnerable. “It feels like you’re at my mercy, injured like this…I like it. It fills me with visions of you at my mercy in other ways.”

“Kiandah,” I hiss. “Stop this. Do not use your power now when I cannot rise to match it.”

She pulls back on a huff, but I can sense that she’s smiling. We lapse back into a strained silence. I’m not sure it’s strained on her end, but I can feel the tension on mine as she’s left my question unanswered. Do you forgive me? “I… Your attempts to distract me will not be met with success. I want you to hear my apology for the wrongs I’ve committed against you, your family and your friends.”

“And you want my forgiveness?”

Yes. “I want…whatever you are willing to give.”

She sighs. “I think I’m starting to understand how you became one of the most feared Lords of Gatamora at such a young age. You don’t lose. You know just what to say…”

“I do not lie.

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