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“I’m here, Marrok. I’m fine.”
“Thank God, love.” He cups my face in his big, rough palms. “Let me feel you alive and whole and mine.”
At his possessive words, I bite my lip. My belly flutters. That’s probably a come-on to keep me close…but the fantasy of a man with his strength and protective instinct cherishing me is too tempting to resist.
In fifteen hundred years, Marrok has never committed to a woman. He gives new meaning to the term “eternal bachelor.” He’s never been in love, either. Hoping I can be the one to change that makes me really, really stupid.
But somehow…I can’t help myself.
“First, we need to hide the book and figure out where we go from here.”
He sighs. “You speak true. But hear me well. We argued before the attack, and you were angry. But that changes naught. We are mated. Once the book is hidden and we are safe, I will have you.”
I should be bristling at his implication that I’ll just lie down and spread my legs because he demanded it. But no. My pulse leaps. My nipples bead. Even lower… Yeah, I’m ready there, too.
I need to think with my brain, not my vagina. “Is that a threat?”
“A vow. I keep and protect what is mine.”
“Regardless of what I want?”
“Say you that you do not desire me?”
I can’t say that without being a liar. I yearn for him, and it isn’t just our bond. He’s stubborn and difficult…and he might be using me, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s quickly burrowing his way into my heart.
“Aren’t you being a little medieval?”
He shrugs. “You can take the man out of the Dark Ages, but…”
“Nice.” I roll my eyes. “Let’s focus on hiding the book. The rest, we’ll deal with later.”
“Soon. Very soon.”
Putting my impending heartache in the mental box marked later, I search the room. “I guess we can’t go back to your cottage. The Anarki know where it is. And they’ve probably destroyed it by now. I’m sorry.”
He tenses. “For ringing your father?”
“Why would I apologize for that? You think he brought the Anarki down on us? According to Bram, they’d already located us, remember?”
“Aye. But many more came with Richard.”
“That has to be a coincidence. I was apologizing because it’s my fault Mathias found out you had the book in the first place. I didn’t mean to blast my thoughts to everyone at Bram’s party.”
“You knew not that others could hear you. Nor did you know what your father would do with the information.”
“I don’t think he had anything to do with the attack. He may have been with them once, but he saw the error of his ways and helped capture Mathias.”
“How do you know that he has not changed his mind again?” Marrok grips my shoulders. “He likely has allies on both sides, which means he has divided loyalties at best. You wish not to see that. Because your mother showed you so little affection, you want to believe Richard Gray is the father you have always pined for, and I understand—”
“Who are you now, Dr. Freud?” I shake free of his touch.
“If I must be to make you see the possibility that he could be more foe than the father of your dreams, aye.”
“This is why you’ve never been in a relationship. You wouldn’t know someone else’s feelings if they slapped you upside the head.” I stomp away.
Marrok hauls me back. “Have you not wondered exactly from whom among Bram’s party guests Mathias learned I have the book?”
He asks a fair question. Still, why would my father risk his life to do away with Mathias, only to suck up to the dark side again? “Shock said others could hear my thoughts. He could. He did it as we were introduced.”
