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Chapter 14
Itossedanother log onto the kitchen fire, embers sparking, and I backed away until it settled, thankful I still wore my blanket. With a kitchen towel in my hand, I lifted the lid off the cauldron and stirred the rabbit stew with a wooden stick. The warming aroma of rosemary and onions left my mouth watering. The red wine didn’t give off a strong smell, but it would add strong flavor. The potatoes were cooking in the simmeringsauce.
Back home, I would make stews at least once a week with mushrooms, and Santos would eat two bowls. What was he doing now? Worrying about me? Or had the priestess taken him? I gripped the utensil and guilt chewed on my insides. Too long I’d lingered here. I had to returnhome.
The wind buffeted against the front door, shaking it on itshinges.
I glanced up, expecting the men to return. But they hadn’t, and they’d been gone for ages. Add to that Dagen remained somewhere in the house. Fine by me that he kept his distance. Why would I want to hang with a humanhater?
Taking a deep breath, I pushed those emotions aside and checked on the bread I’d prepared in the smaller pot after discovering a box of goodies under the table—flour, root veggies, seasoning, and two bottles of wine. The wolves tried different foods, which surprised me. Including a packet of hard-boiled candies I’d found. Did Oryn have a sweet tooth? That made me think about my special chocolate cake with dates I could have baked him if he’d had theingredients.
Wait! What was I doing? Settling down and cooking as if this were my home? Sure, Nero insisted his wolf picked me as his mate, but we lived in different realms… worlds apart. I had a business in Terra, and shifters weren’t allowedthere.
The outside door blew open, and I jerked around, grasping the stirringspoon.
A flurry of wind gushed into the kitchen, ripping the dried herbs off the hooks on the wall and tossing them across thetable.
Oryn stepped inside, nude and carrying a skinned, small boar over his shoulder. He smirked and glanced at his capture and back at me. “We’re feasting tonight.” He dropped the gutted and cleaned carcass on thetable.
“But I just prepared rabbitstew.”
Oryn made his way to the cauldron and peeked inside. “That’s a snack of me, let alone all ofus.”
Nero marched into the room without a stitch on, not that I expected it since they were always naked. Yet it still caught me off-guard. Nudity might be something Bee was more comfortable with since she talked about guys all the time, but it still made megiddy.
He kicked the door shut behind him, holding a bucket of water and his other arm cradling a tree’s worth of crystal weed vines bundled into a hugeball.
“You brought the entire plant? Just a few petals would have sufficed, but thanks,” Isaid.
He dropped them on the table near the dead boar and brushed dried leaves stuck in his hair. “There’s a storm coming, and I wanted to make sure you wouldn’t send me back into the woods formore.”
I approached him and plucked out a twig he’d missed. His hands casually reached for my hips and pulled me against him. “The stew smells divine. We’ll snack on it now, and I’ll set up the pig on a spit on the fire so we can enjoy itlater.”
On my tippy-toes, I stretched up to his lips, brushing mine against his. The coldness outside had left his skin cool, a refreshing change to the heat in the kitchen. I mewled, loving how my body responded tohim.
“You’re adorable, little lamb. One day, I want to show you the Den, the splendors in ourworld.”
“I’d lovethat.”
When another set of hands found my shoulders from behind, I looked up to Oryn, who smiled his devilish grin. “Missed you.” He bent forward and kissed me with the savagery that was him, leaving me flustered with arousal. My nipples hardened beneath the blanket Iwore.
I came up for air and chased my breath, unable to stop my roaring pulse. Being sandwiched between two hunks didn’t happenoften.
Nero glanced down at the small boar and sighed. “Be back in a sec. Need to grab a long piece of wood for the spit. Oryn, keep her warm forme.”
“Don’t be long,” I replied, cold from his leaving myside.
Oryn held me tight, my back against his chest, both of us watching Nero rush outside. The moment the door shut, Oryn guided the hair off my neck and his lips found the soft spot behind myear.
“I meant what I said before. I couldn’t stop thinking about you, how I’d take you into my arms when I returned, and how perfect we feeltogether.”
When his hand skipped down my stomach and to my thighs, I chewed on mycheek.
“I dream of fucking you.” His voice darkened with a sexy growl. “You’re on my mind non-stop.”
Softening against him, I wrapped my hands behind his neck. “You get me horny with just yourwords.”
His fingers grazed the curls between my legs, and my adrenaline hitched into high gear. The wind outside howled, the house rattling, and I wouldn’t be anywhere else but under Oryn’sspell.
