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“I was just thinking how happy I am being alone with you, just the two of us.”
“The possibility of the soldiers’ finding us doesn’t worry you?”
“I don’t sense our capture though I imagine it is because we remain cautious, and I am not foolish enough to think that things cannot change at the next turn. It is just that I believe this time is special for us since—”
Bliss almost bit her tongue. She had had no intention of letting Trey know that she had sensed a separation between them. It would only cause him worry when he needed to focus on the present.
“What was about to slip off your tongue that you hadn’t planned on telling me?” he asked, not at all upset.
“You have enough on your mind.” She hoped to keep it from him though she knew it would be a useless effort.
“You only burden me more by not telling me.”
“We separate,” she said, her heart feeling the harshness of her words.
Trey stopped abruptly, looked around, and hurried her to a grove of trees that provided a modicum of concealment.
“Tell me,” he demanded.
“There truly isn’t anything to tell, which is why I didn’t want to mention it. I have sensed that somehow we are separated, but I don’t know when or for how long.”
“Can you sense that we do come together again?”
She shook her head. “I haven’t seen beyond the separation.”
He braced her back against one of the trees, his hand going to rest just above her head against the thick tree trunk. “It is probably no more than a mission or battle, for I will not be kept long from your side.”
His kiss came quick, its potency stunning her senses, and her arms were just as quick to go around him and hold him close. Their tongues mated while their bodies pressed hard against each other. Their need to join was unbearable, and the deepening kiss only added to the passion that they both knew could not presently be satisfied.
Trey tore his mouth away from hers. “Duty will call, so there will be separations, but also reunitings”—he grinned—“that both of us will thoroughly enjoy.”
He brushed his lips over hers and stepped away.
Bliss wasn’t happy that he moved away from her though she could sense the reluctance in his steps. She knew that the distance was necessary or else they would soon be on the snow-covered ground ... romping.
She could tell he wished to say more, or perhaps ask more, but he didn’t, and that he had explained their separation so as not to make it sound worrisome. It troubled her that she caused him more worry and reminded herself to be more careful about holding her tongue in the future; though she had never had a problem doing so before, she did with Trey. It felt so natural to share with him that it was difficult to keep things to herself. It seemed so right to discuss everything with him.
He didn’t judge her or scold her or belittle her; he was genuinely interested in all she had to say, and that had gladdened her heart. Finally, there was someone to share her life with, and it felt amazing.
“We stay as one,” Trey said, and held his hand out to her.
“Always.” She smiled and took hold.
They hadn’t walked very far when they both suddenly stopped.
“Two or more approach,” Bliss whispered.
Trey didn’t hesitate; he hurried her behind a thicket of bushes. “Wait here. I’ll be back.”
She watched him break off a branch and wipe the ground clean of their foot tracks, then he purposely made new tracks and disappeared in the opposite direction from where she hid.
Why hadn’t she sensed that someone approached sooner? She shook her head, annoyed with herself. She had been too busy with thoughts of Trey. Her knowing had always come easily, for there had been nothing else to fill or worry her thoughts. Now she was so concerned with Trey that it interfered with her knowing, and that was not good.
Even now, when she should be focused on what could happen, she was too busy thinking of Trey. Not good. She breathed a quiet sigh, kept her eyes on her surroundings and her ears attuned to all sounds.
As soon as quiet descended around her, she sensed the approach of two soldiers. She remained as still as could be and listened to the footfalls draw nearer.
“At least we found their trail,” one said.
