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

by Ruby Dixon

I gaze down at her misery. I have seen that before, too. Zalah had been devastated at the thought of resonating to me. Jo-see is no happier.

I am the only male to have two mates and yet have never touched a woman.

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. I have not been happy since Zalah died cursing my name.

I have known this day would happen. I have known there was a connection between us from the day I picked up the small, broken human female out of the strange cave they arrived in and carried her back to the tribal caves. I knew then there was something between us, and I have fought it ever since.

My khui sings a sad, sad song in response.

“I had a mate,” I snarl at it, stabbing my knife into its side again. “And I loved her! You took her from me!”

He’s right - I was looking for words when all along, he’s been a man of actions. Words are easy to say, but actions are everything.

“But make no mistake - if you leave this world, I will not be long behind, because I cannot live without you.”

“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.”