From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

“If you wanted to kill me, you should’ve aimed for the head, Princess. But worse yet, you forgot.” “Forgot what?” “That it was real.”

called. “Penellaphe.” Jerking my head up, I blinked rapidly as Kieran’s face came into view. What the…? “Good.” He was kneeling on the other side of the tub—the tub that I was completely naked in! “I was worried you were dead.”

water. “What are you doing in here?” “I called out your name, and you didn’t answer,” he replied, tone as flat as a board. “You’ve been in here for a while. I thought I should make sure you were alive.”

Kieran’s gaze dropped, moving down my arms to the curve of my stomach and thigh. “Among my people, scars are revered. They are never hidden.”

Kieran offered me some of the beef, and I must’ve agreed because it ended up on my plate. Then came the duck and potato. He was the one who broke off a hunk of cheese and placed it on my plate as he reached for his glass, seeming to remember that it was one of my weaknesses.

I jolted, my entire body freezing. “I can’t do that. Right? I mean, I don’t have…the, uh, parts for it.” “Parts?” Kieran coughed. “What have you been filling her head with?”