Warrior Lover (Draconia Tales) by Karilyn Bentley

Because if taking her to his bedroll didn’t solve all those feelings pinging around inside his chest, he had a real problem.

Chapter 5
    They arrived at the campsite as twilight approached. After a quick dinner using no fire, Thoren laid wards, the magic preventing anything non-magical from entering or leaving the campsite. Enar walked about the site with him, wishing, not for the first time, he had been born Draconi. What he wouldn’t give to be like Thoren, to use magic as effortlessly as most people breathed. Instead, he only possessed the weak magic of his mother.
    Something he hid well, considering Watchers weren’t supposed to possess magical abilities.
    Besides using a persuasive smile at Draconi females until they joined with him, he wasn’t sure what his middling magic could do.
    No sense wondering over the unknown. If the Goddess wanted him to know, then he would. Until then...
    His eye caught sight of Lily sitting on a downed tree trunk with Keara, holding her friend’s hand. His woman’s pink tongue licked over her lips as she watched him from hooded lids.
    And just like that his shaft strained at his laces, wanting to be free.
    Mighty inconvenient of Thoren to make him help lay wards when he could be spending time with his woman.
    “I heard that thought.” Thoren waved his hand over another stone, turning the rock into a ward.
    “What thought?”
    “Uh-huh. Don’t play all innocent with me.”
    “You know me better than that.”
    “You’re right, I do.”
    “You shouldn’t eavesdrop on me.”
    “Sorry. Sometimes you broadcast your thoughts.”
    “Sometimes?” How embarrassing.
    “On occasion.”
    “You mean besides when I’m mind-speaking to you?”
    “Yes.”
    Goddess’s toes. “Keep it to the mind-speaking. My thoughts are my own.”
    “I know. But sometimes I just can’t help it.”
    Sure you can’t. “So, how’s Keara?”
    Thoren shrugged and laid another ward. “How’s Lily?”
    “Glad to be away from the town.”
    “I can imagine.”
    “Can you believe they have priests?”
    Thoren cocked an eyebrow. “Priests?”
    “Yes. No priestesses, just priests. No wonder the townsfolk were so backward. And they think anything out of the norm is evil. Good thing we’re taking the females away from here.”
    “You’re right. The sooner we can return to Draconia the better.” Thoren walked ten paces, picked up another rock and cast a ward spell over it.
    Enar glanced at Lily. His perfect woman. Given to him by the Goddess. He could never hurt Lily on purpose. Which was something he never understood about his father, or any other Watcher for that matter. How they could abuse their women was beyond him. His woman was a gift from the Goddess, how could he even think of hurting her?
    Bedding her, definitely, but hurting her, never.
    After what seemed like an eternity, Thoren finished laying wards. Enar breathed a sigh of relief as they walked to where Lily and Keara sat on the log.
    Lily raised her eyes to his, her face paler than normal. She licked her lips, her little pink tongue popping out as if to meet his shaft, and swallowed. A streak of lust shot through his body, ending between his legs.
    Oh yes, they would have some fun tonight.
    “Come, Lily. You will sleep with me.” He held out his hand, waiting as Lily straightened her shoulders, placing her small palm in his.
    Enar led her to his bedroll. He grabbed the invisibility blanket and motioned for Lily to lie down. Yanking the blanket over them, he lay beside her.
    “This blanket is see-through!” she whispered, holding her hand to it. “And it doesn’t touch my legs even though it’s lying on them. What is this?”
    “It’s an invisibility blanket. We can see out of it, but to anyone looking at us, we appear like a rock. Enough talking, woman. Tonight you have the privilege of knowing what it’s like to belong to a Watcher.”
    Her muscles contracted, arms stiffening at his words, her eyes shutting hard enough to