Chapter 246: Alive

ELRETH

When they'd left the security building Elreth had been buried in the events of the day, completely distracted—her body heavy with weariness. She knew they were going to go home to finish the last of this day, then crawl into the furs together, and the thought didn't light so much as a candle flame within her. She was not interested at all in dragging Aaryn into bed—and she was mad as hell about it, suddenly convinced that the responsibilities of her life were going to kill that lovely, pulsing desire he'd evoked in her from the first time he kissed her. How was it possible that drive, that hunger she'd had for so many weeks was suddenly just… gone?