Echo Fort (Sins of the Zodiac, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

A large shadow fell over me from the right and I whirled around, gasping at the sight of Galomp standing there with a teddy bear clutched to his chest, wearing an honest-to-shit nightgown that fell down to his ankles and a sleep bonnet to match.

oh galomp

It wasn’t a kiss between enemies. It wasn’t blind lust or selfish want. It was fire in the dead of winter, a shock of lightning to my bruised and silenced heart, it was thunder breaking over a desert and it was the awakening of a creature I’d almost forgotten I could be.