Thief of Magic (Heiress of Magic Trilogy #2) by H. D. Gordon

Author:H. D. Gordon [Gordon, H. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 40661655
Published: 2018-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Surah

Suddenly, she was wide awake, all thoughts of sleep forgotten.

She stood immobile, feeling very exposed, but not necessarily uncomfortable, standing in front of him in only her tank top and underwear. She crossed her arms over her chest when she felt her cheeks going red as his eyes moved over her.

“I didn’t know you were taking this room,” Charlie said, but he made no move to stand.

She raised an eyebrow at this. “Really? Because I could swear you put your boots in the other room.” She pointed to the pillow on the bed, where her sais were resting. “And I suppose you missed those as well?”

Charlie shrugged, his posture relaxed and indifferent, but his eyes burning her wherever they fell.

“Okay. I did know you were taking this one.”

Surah waited, but he didn’t elaborate, just sat there leaning back, staring at her.

She put a hand on her hip. “What are you doing?” she asked.

Charlie looked down now, and she felt his eyes leave her the way a lover feels her mate slip free of the bed in the middle of the night. She watched the way the dim light in the room made his thick, dark eyelashes cast shadows on his cheeks as he stared at his hands.

He was also shirtless, but Surah avoided looking at his bare skin, and it took an almost comical amount of effort.

His eyes slowly came up, and she thought he may as well be running his fingers over her skin, because she felt them graze up her ankles and thighs, her stomach and chest, and finally, settle on her face, leaving a trail of tingles behind them.

“I wanted to explain what you saw out there,” he said.

Surah shook her head and looked down at her feet. “You don’t have to explain anything.”

Charlie sat forward, and his eyes went distant, as if he were looking at something from long ago. For a moment he was silent, battling with some demon Surah knew was a secret to everyone but him, just the way she battled so many things that were secrets of her own.

She supposed that was one of the reasons they got along so well. Both of them had been pretending to be something for so long they didn’t know who they were anymore.

This thought seemed enormously revealing, and Surah tucked it away for later before she could dwell on it, relocating herself to the here and now. She didn’t want to think about things that upset her right now.

“No, I do, my lady,” Charlie said, his voice nearly a whisper. “I do have to explain—”

What Surah did next surprised even her, though in reality it shouldn’t have. She was tired of denying herself what she wanted, and was unaccustomed to doing so, being a princess. She didn’t want to think about the fact that her father’s kingdom was in peril, or about how her gut had wrenched with an awful feeling she’d never known before when she’d seen CJ’s hands running down Charlie’s chest, or anything in between, for that matter.

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