Black Lion's Bride by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian [Adrian, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC
Published: 2012-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

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Zahirah had no idea what madness she suffered that she would insist on accompanying Sebastian into Halim's trap. She knew only that in those desperate moments when he had informed her that he was going to Darum despite her warning, she had to be with him. She rode at his left on the track of ancient Roman pavement, watching him observe their surroundings with a keen, steady eye, his command of the caravan no less sure or regal than that of a king.

As a lover, he had proven equally magnificent. Zahirah blushed just to think on their evening together, the shattering passion he had shown her in those precious hours before dawn. He had loved her thoroughly, and yet she had awakened hungry for more. His gaze now, intense as he glanced over and found her watching him, seemed to say that he understood what she was feeling.

That he, too, knew the hunger.

His mouth curving into a sensual smile, he guided his mount next to hers and reached for her hand. He was just about to bring it to his lips when something ahead in the distance caught his eye. His grip tightened on her as he scanned the horizon and brought his mount to a slow halt on the road. He released her hand to motion soundlessly for the caravan to stop.

“What is it?” Zahirah whispered, her ebony mare sidling away from the stamping and huffing of his large white steed.

“A reflection near that knoll,” he told her in a low growl, indicating the same to his lieutenant when the big knight cantered to the head of the caravan to join him.

Zahirah followed the line of the men's vision to a small rise in the terrain some several hundred yards directly ahead. At first she saw nothing but a shapeless jut of rock and scrub brush, but then, something moved behind it. And on the other side of the road, reflecting from the rubble of a ruined stone outbuilding, came a sudden glint of steel, the edge of a weapon breaking the sun's rays and betraying the location of more of Halim's men. The caravan was hemmed in on both sides, she realized, swallowing down a lump of apprehension that rose in her throat.

It was all the warning they were to receive.

With a shrill battle cry, a score of assassin raiders erupted from their hiding places and charged forward on foot. Some brandished scimitars and iron-tipped lances; others were armed with bows and vicious-looking spiked clubs.

“To arms!” Sebastian shouted, moving his charger in front of Zahirah's as a shield while he grabbed for his crossbow. “Go, my lady,” he ordered her, jerking his chin toward a copse of cypress trees to his left. “Find a place to hide until this is ended. Go, now!”

Recalling her promise to obey him, Zahirah hauled on her mare's reins and started to wheel the beast around. But when she would have urged the black off the road to seek cover, she was stopped by a sudden hail of flaming arrows that rained down in front of her.

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