He’d heard the message before, he’d understood it and that was why he was pissed.
Shit!
I opened my mouth to say something but Lahn got there before me, barking at the witch, “Leave now. My wife will give you her reply tomorrow. Come back after the sun begins its descent.”
She nodded, reading his mood (which was hard to miss) and got the hell out of there.
The door barely closed on her when I started, “Lahn –”
But I didn’t finish. This was because he lunged toward me, grabbed my hand in a tight grip and dragged me out of the room.
I was running to keep up with his long, angry strides and he was already at the stairs before I got myself together to cry, “Lahn! What on earth?”
“Quiet,” he growled.
Uh-oh.
Perhaps Diandra was wrong. Perhaps Lahn wasn’t going to find someone else to receive the sharp edge of his impatience. Perhaps that someone was going to be me.
He went straight to our room, pulled me in so hard I went flying in five steps when he released me. He came in after me and slammed the door behind him.
Uh-oh again.
I lifted a hand and started retreating as he started advancing.
“Lahn –” I whispered.
“Eight months,” he clipped and I blinked.
“Wh… what?” I stammered as I kept backing up and Lahn kept advancing.
“Eight months, my queen, I have not taken a woman.”
Oh my God!
I blinked again and in the nanosecond of that blink, this news hit me like a shot.
Oh… my… God!
My eyes stayed glued to him as my heart started beating fast.
I hit bed, skirted it and kept retreating.
Then I whispered, “Really?” and he jerked his chin up.
Then he spat, “Really.”
Oh man.
“Uh…” I mumbled, liking this, hating this (mainly because I wasn’t giving it up to him as I should as his wife and the woman who loved him), being thrilled by it and feeling massive guilt at the same time.
I hit wall and slid to the side, hitting corner and sliding down a new wall as he stopped and slowly turned his big body to keep facing me.
“My Circe told me it was important to her…” he leaned in and his eyes narrowed, “crucial,” he hissed, “that I use my body on no one but her. So I have used my body on no one but her.”
Oh… man.
My heart stopped beating fast and started thumping faster.