Sanctuary With Kings (Tempting Monsters, #3)

by Kathryn Moon

And so, centuries passed…

"Birsha kept me because I could survive more than human women," I said, not wanting to tell her the truth. My mother was a goddess. It meant less than nothing. It was why I'd been collected, and it'd done me no favors. "And you gain strength from pleasure?" she asked. Hedonism.

I was tired. I wanted to be in bed.

"Yes, blodyn bach. If your heart is not whole yet, you have use of ours."

I wasn't empty at all. I wasn't broken. I just hadn't tried putting the right pieces together before now. I'd been missing this.

I was making love a choice now, a course I would follow every day, actions I would relearn and practice and memorize.

Rolant paused behind the couch, sniffed the air, and wrinkled his nose. "I'm going to bed. You lot smell like questionable decisions."