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CHAPTER NINETEEN
Errok
I’d been holding upwell enough with the arrow in my chest. But once the arrow had come out, the blood had poured with intense vigour. Which was perhaps not surprising. Every action of my body was vigorous at all times. Even that of my blood spewing out.
The result of that spewing blood, however, was a suddenlackof vigour that displeased me greatly.
I did not want to be weak in front of my mate.
But I had to admit, in this moment, it had its advantages. Namely the fact she was seated upon me, sweet thighs spread across my frame.
Sight stars on me.
Cursed skies, even with the blood loss, I felt the stir of my cock at the echo of those words.
She was a vision, more perfect than anything I could have dreamed, even with her hair all askew and her hands coated with my blood. Or perhaps because of those things. Her slight weight sagged against my pelvis as she breathed out heavily.
“How do you feel?” she croaked. She sounded exhausted. Like I’d put her through some great trial. And maybe I had. She was not a healer as far as I knew.
And yet... She’d healed me.
“Strong as ever,” I breathed, the words barely above a whisper. Her brows rose at that, and she did that odd back and forth movement of her head.
“Obviously,” she retorted. She sighed, looking down at the black palms of her hands, stained by my blood. “I’d better go get cleaned up.”
“No,” I said, the word slipping out before I could stop it. I liked seeing her with my blood on her skin. I liked seeing that I’d marked her in some way. That, for the briefest of moments, she was mine.
But she ignored me, sliding off of me and standing up. I watched her. I may have been practically immobilized, but my sight stars tracked her every movement.
“I don’t want to go too far while you’re in this state,” she said, seemingly more to herself than to me.
“What state?” I attempted to scoff, but it came out sounding weak and reedy.
“The half-dead on my bed state,” she replied flatly, pinning me with an unimpressed look. “I’ll just clean up in the heated pool right here. I don’t want to risk going around the corner to the other area where I can’t see you.”
I hadn’t been this deep into Gahn Thaleo’s mountain before, so I couldn’t say for sure. But if it was anything like mine, the other area she spoke of likely had clear, running mountain water and basins both for relieving one’s bodily functions and washing one’s hands.
But she was not going there. She was staying here. With me.
Getting in the heated pools.
Naked.
I attempted to sit up, but a bout of dizziness forced me back down.
I will never forgive Gahn Thaleo for making me weak the first moment my mate undresses in front of me.
Then again, the fact he’d sent an arrow through my chest was also the only reason I was here in this cave with her now in the first place.
I chewed on that annoying fact, trying to decide whether to be angry or grudgingly grateful to the obnoxious, scarred Gahn.
But all thoughts – thoughts of anger, thoughts of Gahn Thaleo – thoughts of anything but her in my head ceased when she stepped up to the steaming edge of the water.
She started with the shells she wore on her feet. Using the encased toe of one foot, she hooked it against the heel of the other and slid her left foot out. She did the same on the other side until both feet were freed. They still had thin fabric coverings, which she peeled off quickly. I stared in entranced fascination. I’d never seen her feet without their protective outer layers before. They were small and pale, like the rest of her, so oddly clawless with many tiny toes. I could not for the life of me understand how her ankles worked. They were so low to the ground! Her feet were flat, jutting out from her ankles along the ground. It was a miracle she could walk at all with anatomy like that. Amysteriousmiracle. For it truly made no sense to me.
