Breathing Her Air

Breathing Her Air by Lacey Thorn

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Authors: Lacey Thorn
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Prologue
    If one should die…
     
    Asme looked down on the three sleeping sons she had given birth to only eight weeks before. They were a wondrous sight, bringing both tears to her eyes and a laugh to her lips. These three would know such love and joy and yet their future was anything but certain.
    She had dreamed again last eve. Her mother speaking to her of what was set in motion, what she must watch for and prepare for. So much depended on her, the fate of her entire people. And now that love had bloomed between so many of the women and their mates, the island people were growing and new life was welcomed almost daily. Such joy could exist now if only there wasn’t the constant threat of war, the constant surge of invaders seeking solace on their shores.
    With a weary sigh, Asme turned and found herself pulled into her husband’s arms.
    “What new worries trouble you?” he spoke in a rough voice softened only by the fact that he whispered the words to her.
    “Just thinking of our sons and if they will know anything other than war when they are older.” She snuggled into his chest, relishing the feel of his strong arms around her. She hated that her time with him was so limited but understood why it must be as well.
    “They will know the life of a warrior and will accept whatever fate hands to them. ’ Tis the way it is.” His hand brushed her hair, following it down her waist and coming to rest on the fullness of her hip. He squeezed and fondled her flesh there, pushing the lace band lower until it fell in a pool of black at her feet. “I’ve missed you,” he murmured, pulling her closer still so that the hard contour of his erection pulsed against her belly.
    “As I have missed you. I’ve missed you so much.” She knew that she shouldn’t ask, that it wouldn’t change what was to be, but the words tumbled out anyway. “Will you stay long this time? More than a day?”
    His sigh was long and weary, filled with a wealth of information if one chose to hear it. “I would love nothing more than to stay here with you always, to hold you in my arms and make love to you more times during the day than you would be able to handle. But my duty keeps me away, a duty that you of all people understand. It is but one of the many reasons that I love you.”
    Asme looked up, her face flushed with love for the man who held her. Joyful at his first words of love to her. “You love me?”
    “Of course I love you, woman. How could you not know that? You are the one good thing in my life, the sustenance that I need to keep me going, to keep fighting. These moments that I get to spend with you wrapped in my arms are precious and few. I treasure them more than my life. You are the very air that I breathe, the beat of my heart, the one truth in a world that is shaded with darkness and betrayal.”
    “Who has betrayed you? Who would dare?” Asme demanded and Micah only smiled down at the woman whom he loved. He had done nothing to deserve her, had hurt and abused her on their first meeting. Had let life harden his heart and tried to keep it that way. He had loved and lost so much before and vowed that he would never hurt like that again. But she wouldn’t let him stay cold. She wouldn’t let him hide. She demanded of him and he found that he could give, that he could live, nay, was desperate to live…with her.
    “It is not something for us to discuss at the moment, little princess. Not when you are pressed so snugly against me. Your beauty overwhelms me. Your heart ensnares me. But it is your soul that binds me as no other ever could. I need you, little princess. I need you.” His eyes were filled with passion and love and Asme lost herself in them.
    “Yes,” she moaned as he lifted her high into his arms and carried her through the archway and into their bedroom. He eased her down onto the bed and settled between her naked thighs, placing his engorged staff where she wanted it most. “Yes,” she cried again,

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