Barbarian's Mate (Ice Planet Barbarians, #6)

by Ruby Dixon

The truth is that I do not hate her. I could not. She is sunlight and warm smiles. She is laughter and happiness, and those things are lost to me.

Who has used her? I will rip their heads from their bodies and stomp on their innards.

“Killing you?” I rush to her side, dropping my burdens. “You are dying? Let me see them!” “Wait, wait! It’s a figure of speech,” she says, and the words mean nothing to me. But she pulls her hands out of her bag and shows me the blistered skin. “It just means they hurt really bad.”

She is death to my control.

“I will always be good to you,” he says solemnly, all traces of playfulness gone from his hard face. “You are my life, my heart, my everything.”