Adrienne
Chapter One
Malik lowered to his haunches in front of his bride. With a thought, he ended
the shielding spell he'd erected around her before his attack started. Little
droplets of the assailants' blood fell to the ground-blood he hadn't wanted to
taint his bride's skin.
The suffocating chill of her fear continued, enveloping his body. He had caused
that fear. Killing the two men while she watched showed poor judgment on his
part. He would make it up to her at a later date. His priority was her freedom.
Once she saw that he meant her no harm, she would stop being scared of him. And
he could regain a measure of his original warmth. Malik remembered his father
telling him that he would feel his mate's emotions and she would feel his. He
hadn't known this was what his father meant.
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