Berrr's Vow
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“I will get food. You must eat.”
Tearing her attention from his bulge, she looked up. “Thank you. I am hungry.” Berrr held open the shirt. “Put it on. Your body tempts me to put you back on the bed and I know you need to eat first. After I feed you we will repeat what we did to each other.”
He sounded so sure of himself. She studied his face, taking in the smile he gave her as he helped her into his large shirt. He hesitated.
“I will hurry back.”
“Thank you.”
Giving a nod, Berrr walked barefoot across the floor, opened the door, and left her alone. Sighing loudly, Shanna eyed the big room that used to belong to Berrr’s wife.
She’d just fooled around with a married guy, even though he wasn’t technically married anymore, it being more of an in-name-only arrangement.
She walked for the bathroom and removed the shirt she hadn’t bothered to close since Berrr had already seen her naked, not caring anymore if she’d given him a show of her front. She moved over to the tub and stared down at the large rounded fixture.
Next to it was a shower the size of four put together on Earth. She studied the large metal-looking bar above, not seeing any faucets. Frowning, she stepped over the rim of the enclosure that didn’t have doors. Maybe it’s not a shower. She reached up toward the bar to touch it.
Water soaked her from above. She laughed, standing there as a Zorn version of a shower soaked her in a warm downpour of rain. She kept her eyes closed and used her hands to wash at her body since she didn’t know where soap, a washcloth or even shampoo was. She finally walked to the edge of the water, turning to stare up at it, and wondered how to turn it off.
She’d reached for the thing and it had turned on so she reached up again, the water instantly stopping. Her eyebrows rose. She lifted her arms again over her head and the water poured out all along the bar. She lowered and then raised her arms again to make the water stop.
“Pretty cool,” she muttered. “Motion sensors.”
Turning, she looked around the bathroom and found folded beach-sized towels under the cabinet by the sink. She dried off quickly and just wrapped the towel around her. Berrr seemed convinced that they were going to fool around again and hell, she wasn’t going to kid herself. She wanted a repeat of what they’d done together. The man had an amazing mouth. The fact that he’d never done that to a woman before made her grin with amusement, thinking about how he was better at it than her so-called “lady’s man” ex-husband.
Eyeing the bedroom, she moved for the curtainless window to stare through the glass at the Zorn sky. It was beautiful and alien with its shades of red- and pink-streaked clouds that were a little darker than a light reddish pink, mixing with the sky color. It was really quite beautiful and she saw a dark gray moon even though it was daylight to the far left.
The trees resembled Earth ones except for their colors. The forest she faced was lush with red, purple and black trees. The bases of the trunks were all dark colors with the treetops a lighter shade of the branches and trunk. The dirt was black and red in color while the grass was brilliant rust red. It was going to take some getting used to living on this planet.
The door behind her opened, making Shanna turn around. She couldn’t help but smile at the sight of a shirtless, muscular Berrr carrying a really large tray loaded down with food and a pitcher of something dark in it. She moved forward to help.
“You are wet.”
Laughing, Shanna moved things on a table with chairs not too far from the window so Berrr could sit the tray down. “I discovered your shower. I went to touch the bar thing to see what it was and got soaked when it started raining down on me. Talk about a surprise.”
He didn’t smile back. Instead a frown twisted his lips as his brilliant blue eyes narrowed at her. “You don’t know anything about my world. You could accidentally get hurt if you do not know how something works. You could have slipped when you were startled by the water.”
“But I didn’t.”
“I will show you everything in the house and teach you what you need to know so there is no danger for you, Shanna. You are to never leave here without me or the guards who will protect you that I will place outside.” That made her smile fall. “I’m a prisoner?”
Berrr frowned. “You are free but you are not safe without guards and the protection of my home. Human women are much desired on Zorn so it would not be safe for you to be in the presence of other males.” His focal point lowered down her towel-clad body. “They would want to touch you and mount you.” His gaze jerked up, his face tight with anger. “If a male tries to get close to you tell him you belong to Hyvin Berrr.
No male would be foolish enough to harm you if you tell him you are mine. I will kill any warrior who even considers touching you.”
Stunned, Shanna stared up at him. “Wow. So you’re possessive, huh?” He tilted his head. “I don’t understand.”
“You wouldn’t really kill someone for touching me, would you?” He moved quickly and grabbed Shanna’s hips to jerk her against his body. Anger tightened his features. “I will kill anyone who tries to harm you or take you from me.” He growled deeper in his throat. “You chose to be mine and I am this possessive if it means that I never want to let you go.”
Staring into his eyes, Shanna swallowed hard. The intensity of his look leveled her.
He really meant it when he said he’d kill to protect and keep her. She lifted her hands to spread them over his ribs to caress him and to soothe away the anger that she saw in his eyes, instinctively knowing it wasn’t directed at her.
He had the hottest skin and the muscles under her fingers were not only visible but she could feel them on his super in-shape body. He was just beautiful, everything from his eyes to his long black hair to his buff body. More than that, he was really a great guy from everything she was learning about him.
Realization was a bitch, Shanna decided, still staring into his eyes. This was a guy she could fall hard for. No man had ever looked at her the way he was and no man had ever been willing to kill for her. She took a deep breath.
“I’m starving, Berrr. Those assholes who kidnapped me barely fed us. Whatever you brought smells really good.”