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“You like to fuck.”
It wasn’t a question.
“Aye.”
“If you were free to do whatever you wanted as a man, what would you do?”
Their horse came to a full stop at that, forestalling any reply he had. Right before a stretch of icy structures that wound around the base of the mountain.
A hairy, ruched and wrinkled troll toddled toward them, grunted and wheezed, extending a brown-skinned, sharp-nailed hand, palm up.
Without Eir’s prompting, Kai took off the necklaces he’d acquired from the night before at the Jarl’s festivities and handed them over to the troll.
The creature examined his payment, snorted and frowned.
Although, Eir wasn’t sure it had any expression that wasn’t a frown.
“Here,” Kai added, taking off the rings on his fingers. More gifts he’d been bequeathed, presumably.
“This is for my friends who are not far behind. Give them and their animals lodgings as well.”
Eir gave him a discerning look.
He must have noticed that Ere did not want to part with the only treasure Eir could see in his possession—the golden feather pendant he wore. So, Kai paid for his friends’ comforts with his own treasures.
Eir knew that all dragons abhorred sharing, never mind parting with, treasure. Though Kai didn’t show it otherwise, his actions spoke louder than words. Hecaredfor his traveling companions.
The troll huffed and seemed to nod, though it was more of a head wobble as if he couldn’t be bothered to commit more to the gesture. He turned and pointed to one of the ice houses to the right. Then trudged off again, leaving them to their own devices.
In wordless accord, they slid off of Eir’s steed, which she led to a smaller structure adjoining their establishment. Two smaller trolls trundled over to take her mount, one carrying a large bag of feed.
Still silent, Eir and Kai strode to their appointed ice house and ducked to enter the low-cut door, swiping back a thick pelt of furs.
She surveyed the interior of the ice house, pleased with its supplies.
A low bed covered with thick furs. A bearskin rug upon the ground. A steaming vat of water in a corner of the house for bathing, presumably carried in from the hot springs deeper inside the mountain. A table piled with simple food. And two stools.
Trolls were miserly, grouchy things. But if you could afford their hospitality, they didn’t stint on humanly comforts.
“Well—”
Whatever Eir started to say as she turned around to face Kai died a quick death in her throat.
For, he’d pulled off his tunic in one smooth motion, baring his massive, muscular,manlychest.
“Whatever I wanted to do, you asked,” he rumbled in that deep, resonant growl.
“Touch me and find out.”
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Those glittering, predatory, warrior eyes surveyed him with meticulous concentration.
They were the most startling kind of green.
Kai had glimpsed them in profile while he’d been the rock at her back, protecting her, moving with her as one on her horse. A ray of sunlight had pierced into those clear yet fathomless pools, igniting a crystalline lake of emerald, jade, seafoam and moss.
Like the dazzling shards of a kaleidoscope, her eyes seemed to contain infinite shades of green that never stopped moving, changing. Glittering with an internal light, then absorbing and refracting all other types of light that touched them.
