Chapter Twenty-Nine
Deception
“Lucien, if I die, promise me you’ll continue holding me like this until I’m gone.”
They had awakened some time later. How much later, he had no idea. They’d made love again, this time more slowly. Drawing out every moment of sweetness from their joining as they could before lust took over, and they ended with a burst of energy. When Lucien asked her if she was sore, she admitted she was, but it didn’t cause her any undue pain.
Finally separating, they lay there and listened to the sounds of the forest. To the owls hooting in the distance. The occasional snore from a soldier until he was nudged into changing his sleep position. And to the soft flapping coming from the tent sides as the wind picked up. It was growing chillier, but for the moment he and wer
