The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and..

“Hungry?”
I nodded, smothering a yawn.
“I’ll see what I can wrangle up for us.” He leaned over
me, capturing my lips. The kiss was soft and languid and
wrapped my heart in warmth and light.
He withdrew, rising from the bed, and I watched him
through half-open eyes as he walked to the oak wardrobe.
He pulled on a pair of black breeches. As he made his way
back to me, he unsheathed the wolven dagger. “The wolven
are outside right now, patrolling.”
My brows rose. “They are?” When he nodded, a sleepy
frown pulled at my lips. “Why can’t I feel them, and you
can?”
“Because I’m special,” he replied with a smirk.
I rolled my eyes.
He chuckled. “I can’t feel them. I can hear them. Still
makes me special,” he added, and I sighed.
I thought about what I’d thought had happened with
Kieran and Delano. “Do you think that Primal bond thing
means that I can feel them in a different way?”
“I think you mean Primal notam.”
“Whatever.”
“But what do you mean feel them in a different way?”
“I don’t know.” I gave a half-shrug. “A couple of times
since I woke up in the cabin, I thought I heard Delano and
Kieran in my mind.”
One eyebrow rose. “What?”
“Yeah, I heard their voices in my head.” I sighed. “When
I was in the Skotos, having that dream? I heard Delano
answer something in that nightmare, and I heard him say
that I was their…Liessa,” I told him. “And then I swore I
heard Kieran’s voice when we waited outside the Temple of
Saion. I didn’t get a chance to ask either of them, but with
Delano I also felt more than his emotions when I focused on
him in the mountains. I felt, like…I don’t know how to