“Thirty-five, actually.”
“Even better.”
Lyre laughed. “Beautiful Beatrix, let’s go inside, and let’s not come out again for at least a week. Screw the others; they can celebrate without us.”
“Deal.”
With that, Lyre picked her up, one forearm hooked behind her knees and one behind her back. He stepped across the threshold, slamming the door behind him.
They were finally home.
Teaser from Dragon’s Lover, coming soon!
There are still two Relics to find, and you know what that means! Two more stories coming your way. I wanted to throw you a brief teaser of the next one, which will be out in a few weeks.
~Carina
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People liked to talk about how women emitted pheromones when they were sexually excited. But these men were sending off something of their own; something alluring, erotic, wafting about her head like a pleasant—very pleasant—cloud of bliss. And she was torn between wanting to bask in it and to run out of the building as fast as her legs would carry her, to escape its addictive dangers. Something in that scent was calling to her, drawing her eyes, her nose, her lips towards Mr. Goldilocks in particular, as though she was somehow able to discern his particular musk from that of the other men.
And fuck. It was making her wet with desire.
Okay, enough, Ashlyn. Stop, now, she told herself. Don’t inhale through your nose. Don’t contaminate your lungs with their sexual magnetism, even though you’re desperate, alone and horny as all fuck. Your hormones are screwing with your mind—going nuts, overdosing on hotness. You’re being shallow and stupid and you need to wrap your mind around something—anything—that’s not quite so utterly fuckable.
And as she clutched her canvas satchel tight to her rib cage she tried to look away, to tell herself that the men were of no importance. The only important thing in the world was inside the satchel. Nothing else mattered.
But she failed again and again to convince herself. Every time she tried to distract herself by staring at a photo hanging on the wall or some other element of the pub’s decor, she was drawn back to the back of the head of a man who didn’t even know she existed.
All right. There’s only one solution, and that’s to get out of here.
She lifted the wine glass to her lips, prepared to chug its remnants and to dash out of the place, even if it meant flying by the god-table. Surely she could accomplish that much.
But after a second she froze, the glass’s rim just touching her lower lip. Shit. The golden god was getting up and heading to the bar to buy a round for his buddies.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Ashlyn let out a gasp as her eyes fell on him again. If it was possible, he was even more beautiful from the side than he was straight on. No. Gorgeous didn’t begin to describe him. He was unreal.
Perfect profile. Check.
Chiseled jaw, angular nose; not too big, not too small. Check.
Lips that make my mouth water and my sex tingle with anticipation of a sensation that will never come. Check.
He was so far beyond gorgeous that the only logical conclusion was that he came from another universe entirely. The guy had his own gravitational pull, damn it. Yes. He was incredible, otherworldly. Sexually stimulating to the point where Ashlyn was starting to wonder if there was something seriously wrong with her. Because fuck, she was fairly sure that she was literally turning into liquid. One more second spent staring at him might push her into a place from which there was no safe return.
And somehow, nothing in the world appealed to her more.
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