Thief of Sanguardia (Skeleton Key) by Cherie Marks & Skeleton Key

Author:Cherie Marks & Skeleton Key [Marks, Cherie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timbercreek Press
Published: 2016-06-13T18:30:00+00:00

Cold rain had been falling for a little over thirty minutes, and Zegorie couldn’t fathom why it seemed to please Kaia. When it had begun to come down, she’d lifted her face to the sky and muttered something about a cold shower. As usual, he hadn’t understood what she was talking about, but he was mesmerized by the way the rain soaked her hair, making it seem longer, darker, and sleeker. It gave him dangerous thoughts about laying her down, taking off her clothes, and kissing and licking every wet inch of her beautiful body until she begged him to make wild love to her in the downpour.

So distracted was he that he almost missed pulling her out of the reach of a Dionaea, a carnivorous plant that trapped its victims between two large flowering petals, keeping them in a daze with an anesthetic toxin that digested at the same time. As he’d recognized the long, scarlet outer petals that drew prey in with a sweet fragrance, he’d turned just in time to draw his sword and chop the boulder-sized bud from the stem just as it was stretching out to snatch her up.

The writhing flower fell at her feet. She gasped and jumped back. “What was that?”

“Just another predator in these woods. Do you have man-eating plants where you’re from?”

Her quick steps closed the space between them, and she grasped his arm as she explained, “We have plants that are poisonous, but none that actually grab and eat people.” She smiled and spoke in a low voice as she said, “Feed me, Seymour!”

“What’s that?”

She covered her face with one hand and laughed. “It’s nothing. At least, nothing you’d understand.”

Smelled so good. After their days in the muck and mire of the forest, she shouldn’t smell like something from which he wanted to have a long, leisurely taste, but she did, and his fangs ached to pierce her skin. She twisted her neck and met his gaze, close enough to lean down for a kiss or a nip. So tempting.

“Thank you for saving me. Is that going on my tab?”

“No. That one was free, just to keep you hooked.”

“Oh, trust me, I’m hooked.” Her gaze met his and her eyelashes lowered. Energy whipped back and forth in his mid-section. He wanted to put his hands all over her.

Why was the air always so charged between them? Why couldn’t he just look at her without wanting to feel the softness of her lips and the wildness of her tongue?

Reluctantly, he turned and walked on, but he continued to glance at her as she followed behind him.

“Stop looking at me like you want to eat me up. Maybe you’re not a vampire at all. Maybe you’re the Big Bad Wolf?”

She had one thing right. In that moment, his thoughts were certainly bad. Not because sex wasn’t a natural thing between a man and a woman, but because she didn’t want him the same way he wanted her.

Ah, hell. What did he have

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