Tamed: A Prison Planet Romance (The Condemned Series Book 4) by Alison Aimes

Author:Alison Aimes [Aimes, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996468367
Publisher: Orchid Publishing
Published: 2020-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

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The moons were beginning to wane and Grif’s coverings had long since dried, but not the fever pounding through his blood.

His only consolation was that Nayla didn’t seem too comfortable, either. She fidgeted in her seat, her lips pressed tight as she jabbed the long thin rock she was using to stoke the fire. As if that alone would puncture her need and burn it to ash.

Not going to happen.

The fire crackled.

Nayla poked at it some more. She was roasting some bulbous fire-red plants with spikes he never would have considered eating. However, the longer they cooked, the more the scent shifted from bitter to sweet.

Add “good with finding native food sources” to her list of impressive qualities.

It was damn peaceful. If not for her pain, the missing females, and the mob of pissed-off crewmates he suspected were combing the cliffs for him even now, he could have stayed out here with her like this forever.

But those were all matters that had to be dealt with. Along with the damn ropes at his wrists.

Shifting as if he was simply stretching, he rubbed his binds against the jagged rock at his back and felt another strand snap.

He’d put the time since she walked away from him at the water to good use and come up with a new battle plan. Because that’s exactly what this was: a siege of the highest order. One he did not intend to lose.

He did expect the upcoming skirmish to leave him bruised and bloodied. Sometimes, though, you had to suffer a few cuts to win the war.

With one last bracing breath, he went for it.

“You still look troubled, wild thing.” He took in her tense shoulders as she squatted near the fire, her hair was once more a wild tangle of curls around her lovely face. “You don’t have to be in my ropes to talk. You can say what you feel anytime.” He braced himself. “I can do the same if you like. I won’t close down again.”

“Food almost ready.” She ignored his offer.

He’d suspected it wouldn’t be so easy. Still, it was nice to hear her voice.

She’d kept her distance, tending the fire, rubbing paste on her ankle—an innocent act he’d devoured like it was porn. Everything she did made him hard as hells.

“I’m not hungry.” His denial was undercut by a low belly growl.

She raised an eyebrow. “No?”

“That was just my stomach saying hello,” he teased. “You eat it.”

Her ears twitched, her lips flattening. “We both eat. Travel hard. We need energy.”

He almost had her. “I want you to have it.”

Her chin jutted out. “You feed me. Now, I feed you.”

“Okay.”

She stilled, no doubt taken aback by his quick reversal.

But not all his traps were of the pit variety, and the monster in him was on the scent once more.

If he was another male, he might have backed off. Or found another way to reach her. But he’d been forged to push and fight and win, and so he would.

Since the moment

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