Chapter 38

"I wish things had been different and he had not been there when you were brought out on sale," Nadyr said quietly as they dressed. "But we must work with the situation before us." Her chest was tight, and a tear tracked hotly over her cheek before falling to mark the fabric of her dress as she pulled it up her body, catching in the beading that decorated the neckline of the bodice. Her time with Nadyr was to be brief, a tantalizing glimpse of how her life could have been. But Rikash would return, and her life would resume as it had been, she would cease to be Nadyr s Amelia and once again become Rikash s slave, his womb, his release, his nameless mate. She would be trapped in this apartment, and probably would not see Nadyr again, except for brief glimpses as he came and went in service to his Arken. "Tell me," Nadyr breathed, his croon a hum in his chest. "Tell me it is the same for you." She adjusted the sit of her dress, her hair hi