Song of the Abyss (Deep Waters, #2)

by Emma Hamm

He would keep her safe, he tried to mime to her. He would take the wounds for her.

“I’m not bothered by it, you know.” He swallowed hard. “The dream?” “Your arm.” She let her gaze actually go to the end of it, and he couldn’t move to hide it. Not in this position. “It doesn’t make you any less than what you already are.” Daios winced. “You are one of the few to believe that.”

She moved quickly, certain he wouldn’t like her plan if he knew what she was doing. So with a quick bunching of muscles, she lunged for him. One moment, she was lying in front of him, and the next she’d crawled on top of him.

“I want to find someone who doesn’t fear me. I want to know that when I come home, there is a soft place to rest my head, and someone who cares if I had a hard day, or if I am upset. I want someone to take care of, and who takes care of me in return. That is what I dream of, kalon.”

A slight smirk appeared on his lips, disappearing just as quickly. “I enjoy watching him struggle.” Smacking his chest, she shook her head. “He’s your brother.” “And that does not change my enjoyment.”

I love him lol

“Don’t think less of me, my kalon. Not for this, and not after anything they tell you.”

“I may not know you as well as I wish, but my soul knows yours, Daios.” “We will see,” he murmured, his voice low as his hand wrapped around her waist. With a soft shove, he guided her toward the surface of the moon pool. “I hope you are right.”

He slid his hand into her hair, dragging her close to him again. “But I do not find you ugly.” “Do you not?” “How could I? When your hair is the color of the sun on a cloudless day? When your smile warms the entire ocean around me? When I touch you, your soul is so familiar to me. It is like I have known you in a hundred lifetimes before this, and some part of me that I’ve forgotten wishes to bury itself inside you.

He’s so darn sweet ahh

“Did you miss me?” “Yes,” she said with a breathy laugh. “Isn’t that crazy?” “Not so crazy.” “You were only gone for a couple hours, if that. And already I feel like...” She didn’t know how to say the words. Only that she didn’t like it when they weren’t together.

“I don’t want you to not be whole again because of me.” “I am only whole because of you.” He pressed his lips to hers, the long kiss

“If we do not see each other again, my kalon, I wish for you to know that I have never been more honored than to have a woman like you at my side.”

I cried

She gasped, but then her head fell back as his claws parted her lovely folds.

I really loved this lol