Viking's Crusade (Viking Ancestors: Rise of the Dragon, #6) by Purington Sky

Author:Purington, Sky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sky Purington
Publisher: Sky Purington
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

“HALLA DOESN’T HOLD back, does she?” Ava muttered, her cheeks still burning along with everything else. Her cheeks from embarrassment. The rest of her because she knew what they were getting ready to do as she and Soren made their way through the darkening woodland.

“No, Halla has never held back.” He chuckled. “That is half her charm.”

“It’s half her something,” she said. “Not sure I’d call it charm.”

“My cousin has always been fond of sex, and much to her parent’s chagrin makes sure everyone knows it,” he said. “But she means no harm. To her, intimacy is one of the better parts of life and should be shared often.” He glanced at Ava. “I tend to agree.”

“I’m sure you do.” She shrugged. “I tend to think there are more important things to focus on in life. Sure, sex is okay, but it’s not that big a deal.”

“Then you have not been with the right partner,” he said, as blunt as his cousin.

“You don’t know that.” She shook her head, hardly believing she was having this conversation. “Besides, a person can have good sex then manage without it. It’s called self-control.”

He led her into a cozy nook beneath a pine with a moss covered trunk. The intimate area had a cave of sorts carved into a monstrous rock on one side. Pine branches hung to the ground on the other. Like all places in the Realm, soft verdant grass grew where it shouldn’t. Not that she was complaining as she sat and looked up.

“I used to enjoy sitting beneath the trees at my home in Lake Placid,” she mentioned, steering the conversation away from intimacy. “Then I went off to college and never got around to sitting under one again.”

He lit a fire and sat beside her. “It is peaceful, yes?”

“It really is,” she murmured. “Funny, maybe a small part of me was trying to bring that sense of peace to the rest of the world.”

“By the sounds of it, you did.”

“Here and there.” Not when it mattered most, though.

“I would like to see it someday,” he said softly. “Your life...what you accomplished.”

“You mean, look through my mind’s eye.” She tensed at the thought. It was one thing catching her thoughts, but to let him all the way in would mean him seeing first-hand the atrocities she had caused. “Maybe eventually.”

“When you are ready,” he agreed. “Though it might happen against your will as it has for some of our kin.”

“I know.” She met his eyes. “I guess I just want to put it off for as long as possible.” She shook her head, realizing it was for more reasons than one. “Not just for me but for you.”

“You are afraid of the way I will look at you. That it will damage the way my dragon looks at yours, the connection they are so desperate for.” He shook his head. “But it will not, Ava. It cannot.”

“You don’t know that.”

“I do, though. As I said before, my dragon can only lend yours comfort and protect it,” he said softly.

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