Free Their Unusual Mating [Paranormal Protection Unit 5] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Honor James Page B

can in order to help you, to give you something more to look forward to so that you don’t regret being woken up.”
    “I don’t regret waking, Rimi,” he whispered quietly to her. “I have you, and that’s more important to me than anything else.” Brushing his lips over her cheek, he breathed her in slowly. “I love you, my little bond-mate. The house was just a thing, but it still hurts. All the memories I had were around there, part of there.” He let out a slow breath.
    “I’m glad that you love me. I want this life with you,” she assured him softly. “And we will create new memories. They won’t replace the ones that you had, but they will instead give you something more to look forward to, darling. This is good, right?”
    “Very good,” he agreed quietly with a smile. Kissing her gently, he closed his eyes and breathed her in. “I love you, Rimi. Never think I don’t, little one. I don’t think I could keep moving forward without you in my life.”
    “Well the good thing is that you will never have to find out. I plan on being a part of your life for the rest of forever so we will be able to always share each other, laughter and joy, happiness and pain. We will be each other’s rocks, darling.”
    Smiling, he nodded. “I like the sound of that.” Leaning back, he stroked his fingers down her arm to catch her hand. Lifting it, Laighean kissed her fingers one at a time before sucking lightly on her thumb. “I think I should thank you for being so wise and gracious and for loving me.”
    “Well, I thank you for loving me, too,” she told him happily. “All right. We need to get ourselves done and out of here or else we are so never going to make it out of your bedroom, my love.” Because she would want to have him naked all the time and keep her naked all the time.
    Chuckling, he nipped at her thumb lightly. “We should clean up and then we can go and get food,” he told her softly. Stepping back a little, he passed her the soap. “And then you can talk with Katherine.”
    “Sounds good,” was all she said before pulling from him and winking.

Chapter Eight
     
    Holding her hand in his, Laighean led her down the stairs. At the bottom, he looked at her. “Are you all right?” he asked. She looked nervous for some reason, and he couldn’t figure out why. “It’s just Katherine down here,” he murmured. “Her mates are gone for the day, little one.”
    “I’m good.” Rimi paused and then tugged on his hand to pull him closer. “I’m not afraid of them,” she whispered urgently to him. “But I am worried that someone will overhear what Katherine and I talk about.” That had her worried, that a human would eavesdrop and listen to all she and Kat had to discuss.
    “No one will hear you,” he promised quietly to her. “They are out on a nature trek today and won’t be back until just after dark for dinner.” He only knew that because he was a guard and therefore had to know the movements of everyone. Pressing a kiss to her lips, Laighean smiled. “Don’t worry. Katherine is actually fairly good at saying a lot without saying much of anything.”
    “Thank you, honey.” Reaching up, she impulsively hugged her bond-mate tightly before pulling back. Taking in a deep breath, she pulled back from him and nodded. “All right. I’m going to go and have a catch-up chat with Kat, and I know you have things to do, darling.”
    “If you need me just say the word,” he told her quietly. “I won’t be far. I will be near the house all day, so just call out for me should you have any need.” Lifting her hand, he kissed her fingers gently. “I will see you later.”
    “Yes, you will.” She gave his hand one more squeeze before walking from him before she wasn’t able to. Seeing Katherine sitting behind the antique desk in her office, she smiled and dropped into one of the chairs in front of it. “So, I am in love with Lee. I’m taking him as mine.”
    Grinning at her words,