Page 213 of Sky’s Edge

I moved away.

She shut the door.

I left Laura and Aleksei alone, just in case they were engaged in activities they didn’t want interrupted, and I headed to Tanyn’s bedchamber.

He wasn’t there.

Then again, he was doing his rounds of Bainon, Sirk and Cormac, so he might be a while.

Thus, I grabbed my tablet, climbed into bed, and had just started reading when Tanyn strolled in, Hurley, who had been absent for the evening’s festivities (I had learned the pup loved being outside), trotting at his side.

Hurley rushed to me.

I set aside the tablet so I could bend over the side of the bed to give him a full body rub.

When I lifted away, I had a king in my face, kissing me.

He ended it and said, “Be right back.”

With that, he (and Hurley) went into the closet.

I nabbed my tablet again.

He (and Hurley) came back.

I watched him in his pajama bottoms round the bed. I did this because it was a good show.

I also did it feeling something new.

Something I liked.

I liked it more when Tanyn got in beside me, stretched out, and he turned right to me, wrapped an arm around my hips and tipped his head back to look up at me.

Lilith, he was beautiful.

“You want to read for a while?” he murmured.

“Is that a nice way for you to say you want me to ditch my book so we can have sex?” I teased.

His gaze warmed, but his lips said, “No. It’s my way of asking you if you want to read for a while.”

I set my tablet on the nightstand, shifted down in bed, turned to him, and since his arm never left me through these movements, it was right in position to pull me closer.

“I kinda can’t wait for this to be our normal,” I noted.

“Pardon?” he asked.

His big hand was moving over the silk covering my back, but in a soothing way, not in a starting-something way.

“Me, lying in bed, waiting for you to be done doing your kingly duties and coming to me so you can just be my Tanyn.”

Mm-hmm, yes.

I slipped the “my” in there.

Lightning crackled in his eyes.

And that was my reward.