Page 29 of MidKnight
“I struggle with it on a daily basis, beautiful. Now, you could dose yourself with your power…”
I hadn’t even thought of doing that. It showed how affected and shaken I was. “Icando that,” I murmured.
“A tiny dose, if it will make you feel better.”
I sent a pulse of peace to my own heart, letting the green glow slip from my fingertips to my heart. My heartbeat slowed, but only partially. I needed more.
Declan stopped my hand before I could do it again. “I think you’ve lost enough blood today, Peace. What if I give you a massage? What if I rub out all that—
Rub out? Hell no!Quinn’s voice interrupted us.
“Quinn!” Declan and I both scolded him at once. But his interruption lightened the mood and I smiled.
“Butt out,” I told Quinn aloud, so Declan could hear.
As long as Declan has to stay out of your butt, too.
You are a five-year-old.
I love you.
I shook my head, tears forming in my eyes.
Don’t be sad, Dove.
I’m not. I love you, too. Now leave me and Declan alone, dammit.
Fine. But no funny business without me.
I turned to Declan. “I don’t know how you stood him all these years.”
Declan gave me a little grin. “I just start reciting crop calculations and figures. Shuts him up and gets him out of my head real quick.”
I laughed, draping my arms over Declan’s shoulders. “He’s worried you’re going to get up to naughty things without him.”
Declan kissed me. A soft kiss that traveled from my lips to my chin to my neck. “If I thought that would help, I would.”
My heart jumped. “It might.”
Declan chuckled, “I’ll play with you, if that’s what you really want.”
“Playful Declan?” I couldn’t resist asking, “What would that look like?”
Immediately Declan stiffened against me. His whisper was soft, so soft I could barely hear it. “Which side do you want? Dom or sub?”
It was almost as if he were scared of my answer.
“Whatever you want, darling,”
He shook his head. “Think, Bloss. Take a moment. What do you need?”
I stared at him for a second. And then I surprised myself when the word, “Dom,” slipped out of my lips. But it was a piece of Declan I’d never seen. And I was curious. More than curious. I was desperate to see that side of him. Desperate to see every side of him.
Declan immediately inhaled and straightened up so he could look down at me. His gaze was hard and piercing and sarding hot.
“Lay down on the bed.”
I lay down immediately and watched him. He took his hand and ran it over the front of my body, between my breasts and down my stomach. He stopped at my hip bones. He tapped my right hip. “Turn over.”
