Woman Beheld

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Authors: Tianna Xander
Tags: Paranormal, Erotic Romance
the infants Elle carried would not be defenders, they would still be his children in every sense of the word.
    Already, he could feel his heart reaching for the little ones inside Elle’s womb. His chest ached with the knowledge that he could have been too late when the Fates sent him to her world. What would he have done if he’d arrived and found her dead? Would he have known she was the one with whom destiny decreed he would spend his life or would he have mourned her loss the same as any other human?
    He looked around the room and wondered if he would ever grow used to the idea that he had a family now.
    The sound of footsteps coming down the hall yanked him from his musings. He moved to the window, wondering if he should put up a safety rail. He frowned at the thick casement and leaned forward to look down into the courtyard. It was a long way down. Most defenders didn’t worry about such things. Their children were born indestructible. However, human children were not.
    “Get the carpenters up here to add a railing to the casement. I wouldn’t want the babes falling to their deaths.” He smiled. Reaching up, he ran his fingers through his hair. “As difficult as it is to believe, I’ve begun to care for them already and I haven’t even seen them yet.”
    “Thank you. I’m glad to hear that you’re looking out for their safety.”
    He spun around at the sound of Elle’s voice. It was a beautiful sound when not laced with pain and exhaustion. She was beautiful standing there in a dress made of blue silk and her hair pulled up into a series of braids on top of her head. “Of course I would worry.” He smiled at her, noting that for the first time in centuries, he felt oddly happy. His smile felt bigger and his cheeks didn’t ache with the effort to hold it in place. “Of course I would care.”
    “Why, because the Fates say you must, or do you really feel something in here.” She touched the center of her chest, drawing his attention to the swell of her bosom in the dress with the high waist cinched just below the enticing swell.
    Daffyd swallowed thickly and turned to face the window once more. “I truly feel something. I don’t know what. I only know that it is in the vicinity of the center of my chest.” He spun around to face her. “I know that I feel happy. For the first time in a long, long time I actually want to smile instead of doing it because that’s what others expect.”
    Lacing his fingers at the small of his back, he leaned back against the wall. It was a position that, over the years, he’d learned left him vulnerable. He wanted to show her she had nothing to fear from him. “For years, I smiled for children because my expression would frighten them if I did not. While my lips curved, my emotions remained the same. I’m certain someone noticed it throughout the years.”
    “Yes. I’m sure they did.” She walked a slow circuit of the room. “This is huge for a nursery.”
    “It will not seem so once all of the toys and books are returned. I had them taken out so the maids could dust and clean them while the men emptied the room and brought the infant furniture back in.”
    “Oh.” She cleared her throat as she continued her stroll around the room. “Where will I sleep?”
    In my bed where you belong . “He pointed to a door to his left. “There is a bedroom just beyond that door.”
    He didn’t tell her that it was an extension of the master suite. It was a room where they both would sleep until the children were over a year old. If they didn’t have another right away, they would move back into the defender’s chamber. It was a room several doors down from this one. The sound of childhood fights and screaming would not reach them there and the children would have their nursemaid to see to their every need while he and Elle would have the peace and quiet one needed to pursue such activities that would bring them a reason to move closer to the nursery once more.
    “Did

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