Total pages in book: 99
Estimated words: 99529 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 498(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 332(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 99529 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 498(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 332(@300wpm)
I held his arms down.
He struggled.
I could barely hold him as he began to shift and had to admit his battle form was bigger than mine. “Listen! Do you want to protect her from death or do you want to fight me for touching her?”
“What?” he said through clenched teeth.
“Look over there.” I pointed a mile away to the hundreds of mages twirling fire and wooden sticks. “While you’ve been making love to Camille, mages have gotten in formation to kill us. Maybe we should agree to fight about her later.”
“You touched her.”
“Mages.”
“Later, then.” He climbed out of my grip and punched me in the face. My jaw cracked and reformed in seconds. The best thing about this form was that one could heal fast.
I collapsed onto the ground next to him. “What I did was no disrespect, but—”
“Then what was it?” Xander sat up and brushed the dirt off his shoulders and arms.
“You need to get ahold of your hormones. They’re everywhere.” I gestured out at the red vapors moving along the dominas and guards around us. “You’ll have everyone humping each other by dawn.”
“I did this?” Xander’s horns drove back into his skull. His claws vanished. His body decreased into his normal muscular body. “How do I control it?”
“Try not to be horny so much.”
Camille strolled out of the wagon and gave orders to Tote, pointing this way and that.
A red robe draped her curvy body. Her hair flowed around her and merged so well with the robe that it was hard for me to know where her hair ended and the robe began.
She captivated me.
“Try not to be horny, huh?” Xander laughed. “Look at her and tell me if there’s any hope for me.”
“There’s no hope.” I smelled Camille’s sweet scent on my fingers and stifled the groan that tried to flee my lips.
Jealousy mounted in my gut, but I shoved it back down.
In the end, Camille belonged to Xander. I could not let my feelings get deeper.
After this war I should travel away from them, and maybe. . .find my own queen.
I sighed. “You’ve probably planted your seed by now.”
“Do you think?” Xander’s eyes glittered under the two moons. A large smile spread across his face. “When would we know?”
Dear Ambi. He’s trying to breed with her. He’s definitely matured into a king.
“We’ll know soon.”
But, does she know?
Tote rushed off after Camille finished giving orders and gathered dominas everywhere.
What is Camille doing?
Leeta went to her.
They whispered.
A shiver of fear crept up my spine.
Any time women joined together and whispered, something foul was bound to come.
I stood and helped Xander rise. “Did you tell her that you’re trying to give her kids?”
“Does it matter if it’s already done?” Xander headed to his wagon.
A few dominas got a good glance at his cock and blushed. He didn’t even notice how more dominas formed near the wagon he climbed in, drawn to the power only a king could radiate.
Only Camille existed in his head.
Xander closed the door and I hoped he went inside to clean and dress, instead of rest in preparation for more sex.
The blood mage comes, Phinova announced in my skull. Bring her to me.
Quiet.
I should have ended this by now with Phinova. Put her body somewhere.
The more she talked, the less she seemed like my love.
It was just her voice, but not her soul or mind.
I knew Phinova, and this was not her.
I am me, Phinova declared.
“Ian.” Camille strolled my way. “You can’t touch me like that again.”
“Why not?” I leaned my head to the side. “You enjoyed my fingers. There’s no need for you to lie.”
“Not the point.”
“Then what is?”
“I’m his queen.”
“Xander could learn to share.”
“He will never need to share me.”
“In the end, he only wants to please you and if both of us made you happy, he would understand.” I leaned in closer, pressed my lips against her ear and was shocked that she didn’t back away. “Do you long to have us both?”
She averted her eyes. “No.”
I inhaled her luscious fragrance. “You’re lying.”
“Why were you talking to Phinova in the wagon earlier?”
My stomach clenched into tight knots of stress. “You imagined that.”
“I didn’t. You were talking to her dead body.”
“Regardless, there are bigger things to worry about, Queen.” I motioned to the mage tribe.
Camille nodded. “I already have a plan for them. Ambi and Ressi told me in a dream that the mages would be ready for us. They told me what to do.”
Now Camille is crazy. Will any of us conquer Nai?
I talked to a corpse.
Xander was ignoring the war and planning a family.
And now Camille conversed with gods in her dreams.
I sighed. “Ambi and Ressi?”
“Yes.”
“Why should I believe this?”
“I don’t care if you believe me or not.”
I crossed my arms over my chest. “Let’s say that you did talk to the gods. What did they tell you to do?”