Between These Broken Hearts (These Hollow Vows, #4)

by Lexi Ryan

“You’re not bad. For someone so old.” He grunts. “Try not to drool on the sheets.” Seriously? “Keep dreaming.”

“Does your mind only visit the gutter in my presence, or does it have a full-time residence there?” “You bring it out in me,” I say, then regret how flirtatious the words sound.

feel well. You don’t need to worry that I’ll fall sick again in the night.” His full lips twist into a smirk. “You think that’s why I don’t want to leave your side?”

You must forget the vines you used to restrain me at Castle Craige. Those bit a great deal. Oh, but now that I know you’re not a danger to my kingdom, my vines would be much softer. I scowl at him. What in the world have I done to make you want to tie me up again?

“I have wanted you since the moment Remme and Skylar brought you to our cabin eight months ago. I wanted you when you were angry with me and when you were scared and when you were reckless. When you were in your dress from the palace and when you were in those outfits of Sky’s.” He strolls forward, letting his eyes sweep over the slip, and my bare thighs, before he stops in front of me and traces one strap of the slip with a callused fingertip.