Tuff
Girl Legion Presents Astarte’s Wrath
Sneak
Peek: Bath Scene from Xarion’s POV
Star narrows her
eyes at me, her full, bottom lip puckering out the way it does when she’s in
serious thought—and though I’m listening to her words, all I want to do is trap
that bottom lip between my teeth. Nip it and caress it with my tongue.
“I knew you’d say that,” she says.
“And that is precisely why I didn’t want you to know.” She raises her hand from
my chest and swipes the wet hair from my forehead. Her body subtly moves
against me with this action, and it drives me wild. “A possible retaliation by
the guardians is just one more weighted burden on top of the many you already
carry. You don’t need the added strain. Let me deal with Candra and the Kythan.
They’re my kindred. As long as I’m their equal—in both power and status—I can
protect you.”
This woman—the woman I’ve loved my
entire life—is my protector. She not only guards against physical threats, but
watches over my mental wellbeing. But I cannot allow her to carry all my
problems alone anymore. I want to be her
guardian, to be the one to comfort her when she’s fearful, and protect her
against this world.
I tilt my head and suck in a deep
breath. “This is why you won’t be with me.” I want her to admit it. If she
finally confesses that our titles and her battle with the right course of
action have been the only reasons for her kept affections, then by Gods…help me
from laying her out on this tile and taking her—making her mine. I won’t stop.
She nods.
“This
is the only reason.” She nods again,
and that is all the conformation I need. “Then I refuse to let them keep us
apart for one more moment.” I grasp her face between my hands and claim her
lips with mine.
Her lips are soft and warm as I
achingly coax them into a fevered kiss, unable to hold back my desire for her.
I had planned for our first kiss many times, imagined it over and over. The way
I would caress her lips slowly and lovingly, conveying my affections. But every
emotion I have ever felt for Star rushes to the surface all at once, and I
can’t slow. I won’t. I won’t allow her a moment to question our actions, to
reconsider us. I’m going to kiss her senseless—kiss the reason right out of her
infuriatingly rational head.
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