The Bonekeeper's Mate (The Monster's Mate Book 9) by Adrian Blue

Author:Adrian Blue [Blue, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

It was a lot to take. Narik was kind enough to give her time to think. They had gone to separate sleeping pallets, but for the first time, the future held possibilities. Bridget slept soundly and woke early the next morning. Early enough that Narik was still sound asleep.

She found herself watching him in the dim light of the low-burning fire. From her place across the room, she could just make out the steady rise and fall of his chest. Her eyes wandered over his body. When he was awake, his personality was often her main focus, but asleep there was nothing to distract her from his appearance.

When had she begun to feel lust for his inhuman features? Her affection for him as a person was almost acceptable by society’s standards, but her hunger for him? No one in the town would ever understand that. She barely understood it herself. She only knew that she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anyone.

It was a heady realization for her. She had never been a woman of strong passions. It was one of the many things her husband could not stand about her. He said she was frigid, barely even worthy of being called a wife. Some part of her had believed him.

Bridget licked her lips, as her eyes caressed the long lines of Narik’s body. Her husband was wrong. Just looking at Narik made heat bloom between her thighs. She could not help wondering what he would feel like over her, his cool skin against her heated body.

And what of his manhood? Was it long and lean like the rest of him or was it altogether different? In the weeks they had spent together she had never seen so much as a glimpse. From her furtive peeks, it seemed to somehow lie within his body. Just one more part of him to explore. And she wanted to. Oh, how she wanted to.

Bridget pressed her thighs together. The knowledge that she was his mate had done something to her, given her mind permission to wonder. To want. The same way her heart wanted. She shied away from naming her feelings for him, terrified she would find something far stronger than affection dwelling there.

She wished she could just leave her old life behind forever. Let her marriage vows die and flee with Narik. But where could they possibly go? Her husband was already searching in the forest. Eventually, not even Narik’s scent would throw off the dogs. What were they going to do?

“Your thoughts have turned,” a familiar voice said.

Bridget looked up to see Narik watching her. His eyes moved over her slowly and he sat up.

“Turned?” she asked.

“Your scent was warm and sweet, but it soured with fear. What is it that frightens you, Bridget?”

“My husband,” she whispered. “I am afraid of what he will do if he finds me, finds us.” He would kill Narik for the sport and make her wish she were dead soon after.

“I would take you to my home if you desired it.

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