“I like blunt women.” Liam offered his hand. “Come.”
“Have we…” she faltered.
“Yes?”
“Consummated our wedding?”
“No.”
She looked stricken. “Why not?”
“Because of your amnesia. I… we wanted to wait until you got better.”
“Sex isn’t rocket science. I know how to have sex.”
“Do you? Then what are we waiting for?” he teased.
“Well. Maybe, you’re right. Maybe we’d better wait…”
“Eva.” Liam held her hand and tugged her into his room gently. “Doesn’t mean we can’t share a bed.” He wanted to kick himself after he said that. He promised himself he didn’t want to take advantage of her, but he couldn’t help it. It had been a while since he was with a woman. A long while.
Eva hesitated. But then she stepped in, allowing herself to be herded into the bed. Liam pushed the cover down and tapped the mattress. “Come.”
She timidly sat while gawking at his room. Liam liked a minimalist style in his bedroom. He only kept a bed with two nightstands, with the walls painted chocolate brown, beige drapery with the whole scheme in an array of mono tones, easy to the eyes and promoting sleep. A white flower plant perched on Liam’s side of the nightstand, providing a contrasting yet relaxing coloration. Liam slipped under the covers. He wore a white undershirt and short boxers. He liked the feeling of bare feet against the freshly cleaned sheet. But tonight he wasn’t just smelling freshly laundered bedding. There was another scent present in the room.
The scent of a woman.
She didn’t wear perfume or anything. But Liam could smell her fresh soap and the very scent of her. Feminine. Eva smelled so damn good.
Eva climbed into bed tentatively and settled in under the comforter. Liam leaned on his side and stroked her hair lovingly. “Well?”
She giggled. “It feels weird.”
“Weird?”
“I don’t know. I feel like we just met. Like we’re strangers. But somehow it kinda feels right. It’s like I’ve known you before, a long, long time ago. It’s just so right. Funny, don’t you think?”
This was how a bonded should feel. They hadn’t even been intimate yet they felt a deeper connection. After his failed marriage, Liam suspected the dragon bonded was just a myth. But now… He’d take it all back. Being with her was wonderful. It was like finding his other half that had been missing all his life.
“I don’t think it’s funny,” he told her, scooting closer and draping an arm across her. “Maybe we are meant to be.”
“That sounds so cliché.”
“You think? How do you know that’s cliché? You have amnesia.”
“I don’t know, I just know.”
“We’re cliché? Or us being cliché?”
“I know what cliché means.”
“Hmm. Come closer. I want to feel your body against mine.”
Eva obeyed. “This is nice,” she said after a few minutes.
“I know.”
A comfortable silence stretched between them.