himself withdraw his hand from her lower
back. Panting slightly, sharing breath, he said
onto her mouth, “Later. Go help the others.”
Dark eyes glazed with desire met his, and
Lorcan adjusted the fall of the blanket over
his lap. “Go help the others,” he repeated. “I’ll
be here when you’re ready to sleep.”
The unspoken request lingered, and Elide
pulled back, studying him once more.
“Sleep only,” Lorcan said, not bothering to
hide the heat rising in his stare. “For now.”
Until she was ready. Until she told him,
showed him, she wished to share everything
with him. That final claiming.
But until then, he wanted her here.
Sleeping at his side, where he might watch
over her. As she had watched over him.
Elide’s face was flushed as she rose, her
hands shaking. Not from fear, but from the
same effort that it now took Lorcan not to
lily
(lily)
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