Hymn of Breath and Bone (THE WHISPERING SEA DUET #2) by Madeleine Eliot EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Madeleine Eliot
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“NO MATE OF MINE will be unable to defend herself,” Caspian said,
shouting the word ‘mate’ rather more loudly than necessary as he pushed
the dagger into my hand.
I had only been in the Siren Cliffs for a few days, most of them spent
unconscious as I recovered from evicting Morar’s spirit from Rannoch’s
lake. I already missed the grumpy kelpie, but I was preoccupied with
several other, more pressing issues.
Like the fact that I was betraying my people and parents by staying with
Caspian.
Like the fact that he was my mate.
“So you’re going to teach me?” I asked, trying to sound skeptical rather
than rife with excitement and nerves.
“Of course,” he said with a grin.
I had begged both my father and my former betrothed to teach me selfdefense, and both had refused on the principle that it wasn’t necessary or
proper.
And here was Caspian, Siren King and mortal enemy to my people,
handing me a dagger.
If I wasn’t in love with him already, this would have pushed me over the
edge.
The realization that we were mates was still new. It had only been this
morning—although it seemed like days ago now—when Caspian presented
me to his people. We planned to fake a mating bond until I decided if I
would stay. But the moment he presented me as his mate, something clicked
into place.
From there we’d gone to a meeting with his advisors that went
disastrously, to a meal in one of the common dining areas, to training, and I
hadn’t had a chance to figure out exactly how I was going to tell him.
But seas below, I had to tell him. Before he kept his promise to
thoroughly bed me, I had to tell him. I didn’t know what importance the
sirens placed on the act, but I knew it was something. Caspian had said as
much when he refused to give me everything on our little deserted island.
I was aching for him. And based on how he was looking at me, and the
feeling that our hearts beat in tandem, I thought he might be aching for me
too.
“Unless you’d prefer Astraios?” Caspian added with a raised eyebrow.
Caspian’s handsome third-in-command blew me a kiss, earning a smack
on the back of the head from Zephyr, Caspian’s first mate.
Both had come ostensibly to watch us spar, but I knew they had actually
been tasked with guarding me. Caspian wasn’t sure yet that none of the
sirens would try to murder me to send a message to my father, and I
couldn’t really blame them if they tried.
Especially considering how the meeting with his advisors had gone.
“Will Astraios do other things you won’t?” I teased, looking up at him
and closing the distance between us a bit more as I tried to push the
memory of that meeting from my mind. His scent washed over me, wind
and sea and mint, and I could feel the heat of his bare chest radiating
against my skin. “Keep promises, for example?”
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