closing the door that thudded like a nail in my coffin. He moved deeper into the room, removing his heavy armor. He stopped beside a chair and slowly slid his sparkling, wintery gaze to where I still stood, wordlessly watching him.
“You fucking stink. Bathe, Lexia,” Torrin growled, and I nodded slowly in agreement. I stank, but I wasn’t too keen on being nude around this male, either.
I wasn’t shy about being naked around people by any means. I’d grown up in a group setting where men and women bathed together all the time. We were taught to embrace who and what we were, and sexuality wasn’t something we thought of when we were naked. Yet the idea of getting naked with him was causing my brain to hiccup. My heart was thundering against my chest wall, while wings were fluttering in my belly.
The shit happening within me was making me off-kilter. I wasn’t sure why it was happening, and I didn’t like it. I knew Torrin had magic since I’d grown up on tales of who this man was and what he did to entire armies in battles. Shit, there were legends about his expertise on and off the battlefield.
I’d entered taverns and listened to the working women who gushed over Torrin. They’d shared their experiences in his arms and how hard and vigorous he went against their bodies. Rumors were that he was like a crazed warrior lost in the bloodlust declaring war on the female anatomy. I’d scoffed and made fun of those women for being amazed at the male behind closed doors.
Now, I was the woman with him behind the closed doors.
I walked to the bathtub, slowly undressing while I faced away from him. Sliding into the water, I noted how large the tub was. It was much larger than the ones I typically bathed in, and the room itself was elegant, considering it was within a tavern that doubled as an inn.
I stared into the dancing flames while I washed my body, pouring water over my head to work the soap into my hair, noting the room’s silence. A prickling sensation settled on my neck, and I swallowed past the knowledge that Torrin was watching me bathe. Slipping beneath the water, I rinsed my hair out before I turned, staring up into frost-colored eyes.
Torrin stood naked, his wealth of muscles on display with his overly large cock hanging between his legs. Swallowing, I backed up in the tub, covering my breasts with my arms while he climbed in, tossing a glass bottle toward me, forcing me to uncover my body to catch the tonic.
“I need you to put that on my chest and back,” he demanded. “After all, I got them from protecting your pretty skin from the poisonous droplets.”
I nodded slowly, trying to get as small as I could manage. Climbing into the tub, Torrin spread his legs, forcing me to slide between them. He hung his large arms over the sides of the tub and rested his head against the back, staring up at the ceiling, making me look to see what had captured his attention above us. My eyes dropped back to Torrin, finding him studying my face intently.
“How long have you been celibate?”
My emotions slammed shut, and I snorted, shaking my head. “Let’s not do that. Let’s not pretend either of us cares about the other. You don’t care about me being celibate any more than I care about whatever is happening between you and the man downstairs. I’m your hostage, not your fucking girlfriend.”
His eyes narrowed, and the tic in his jaw came to life. I exhaled, creeping forward. I’d slammed home the point that we weren’t friends, and that should have stopped the fluttering in my belly as I moved closer to the warlord who put that quivering need there.
Torrin’s chest was peppered in burns from the reaper’s blood that had scorched through his suit of armor. I opened the bottle of tonic, settling between his legs, uncaring that I was entirely on display or that his massive cock was about to be very close to my naked sex. His eyes lowered to my breasts, and I admittedly wondered if he had found them as lackluster as the last male who had seen them.
My body was covered in scars and markings that I’d earned. I wasn’t curved like Amo’s body that made men go insane for a chance to be with her for a night. I had small breasts with