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shoulder as she began to grind her hips to his. With his head bowed to her in ecstasy, he came inside her, bucking once, and she let out a delighted cry of triumph and began to tremble in his arms.
    And Kelly knew that he had been a fool ever to think that perhaps Cressida Avery would not have been enough to satisfy him. Though she was human, she was so much alive, and so much stronger than any other woman, human or shifter, that he had ever known. He didn’t regret or resent sharing her with Reza, but he knew he should have taken her for his own long ago, and that he’d only wasted time by resisting his own heart.
    “You are the fire of my heart,” he told her softly as he lowered her feet to the floor and stole another kiss from her lips.
    She smiled, exhausted from their efforts, and pulled up her trousers, brilliant blue eyes sparkling up at him. “I love you too.”
    “I want to take you to my bed,” he told her.
    Her smile dimmed a little, and she shook her head. “We haven’t figured out how that’s going to work, have we?”
    He looked down, righting himself and his trousers and fetching up their rapiers from the floor. He handed hers over. “No, we haven’t.”
    “We will,” she said.
    “Cress, I just want to sleep with you in my arms tonight. Why is that more complicated than what we just did in this hallway?” He lifted his eyes, meeting hers.
    “It isn’t,” she said softly. “It shouldn’t be. You’re right. I’ll sleep in the bed with you tonight, and then tomorrow night you’ll stay in the barracks, and Reza will stay in the bed with me.”
    Kelly blinked. “My bed? In my bed?”
    Cressida arched an eyebrow at him. “There’s only one bed on the ship, Kelly.”
    Kelly let out a snort, buckling his belt as she buckled hers, and shook his head. “Fine. If…fine. I…hate that.”
    She smiled and leaned up, kissing his cheek. “But you love me.”
    “Yes. Tart.”
    “Tart!” She laughed.
    “My favorite tart. Who is going to clean the sheets on my bed every time she defiles them with her other mate.” He smirked. She blushed.
    And then she took his hand to pull him down the corridor towards the stairs that led to the captain’s quarters. “Fine. I hate that . But fine.”
    Kelly ceased negotiations at that point, simply pleased to get to spend the night with her in his bed—however plain it was that the bed was no longer actually his .

Chapter 10
    The morning that the Oso Armonia left the island for the long journey back to fetch the rest of Kelly’s den, Cressida went to the village with Reza. Reza went to say goodbye to Kamala, but Cressida had another purpose in mind for her last visit before they finally took to the sea again. While Reza took his sister for a walk through the village, Cressida was left in the chieftain’s hut, where she waited at the low table until Prija appeared from one of the adjacent rooms.
    “My father said you wanted to speak to me,” Prija said, and Cressida could tell that she was confused by that bit of news.
    “I do.” Cressida got to her feet and approached the tigress. She smiled, even though it was awkward as hell. Reza had not told her anything of his day and night spent in the village betrothed to Prija, but Prija was beautiful and Cressida wasn’t stupid. There was, at the very least, attraction there. She understood it. And certainly she understood why Prija might have been drawn to Reza. “I have a favor to ask of you.”
    Prija’s eyebrows shot towards her hairline, plainly surprised. “To ask of me , Keeper?”
    “Well, that’s the thing,” Cressida said. She lifted her hands to the chain around her throat, and picked up the stone, looping it free of her neck and holding it in her palm. “I think the jewel needs to stay on the island. While I’m gone, I was hoping you would keep it for me, and the sanctuary.”
    Prija’s bright green eyes widened in shock and she actually took a step back, a hand covering her heart.