Champion: A Prophecy Series Novella by Jessica Wayne

Author:Jessica Wayne [Wayne, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Seven

Armes

Armes rammed the door again, putting all the strength he had into it. The wood buckled in the center, but did not break.

Angry, he yelled, and slammed his back hooves into the door again. It splintered, sending sharp shards into the hall.

“Coral!” he yelled, rushing out into the hall.

His parents were walking toward him, their mouths in tight lines. “Where is she?”

“Back in Atlantis,” his father said sadly. “Why didn’t you tell us?”

“No, no, no, no!” he roared, the word echoing through the stone.

“Armes, we would have supported you,” his mother touched his arm gently, and Armes bowed his head. If she were back in Atlantis, there was nothing he could do. Only a Siren or Sorceress with knowledge of the original protection spell could reach the magical city, and he highly doubted he’d ever find anyone willing to help him.

“I know,” Armes said sadly. “But I didn’t have a chance, it all happened so fast. So impossibly fast.”

“Love does that sometimes,” his mother said, cupping both sides of his face. It can be a slow, delicious burn that warms you from the inside as it grows. Or,” she started, looking up at his father, “it can be an all-consuming inferno that leaves nothing behind.”

“Why couldn’t she stay? Why did the king force her to leave?”

His father swallowed hard and rubbed the back of his neck. “He fears what he does not understand. Centaurs mate with Faeres. They may lay with humans, but no other being, it’s just not done. The fear of what type of child your two bloodlines will create was too much for him to leave to chance.”

“That’s my child, mine, and I’ll never get to see it.” His voice cracked, the lump in his throat nearly too painful to stand. He’d never see the dark-haired beauty again, or the small life that was born of their passion.

“I know, Son, and I cannot even imagine the pain you must feel.”

Armes shut his eyes tightly, replaying their last blissful moments in his head. She’d been about to accept his offer, he’d seen it. Why hadn’t he asked her sooner? Perhaps then they would have been gone before they’d been discovered.

It happened fast, just as his mother described it. The inferno laid waste to every plan he’d set out for himself until all that mattered was Coral, and never having to live life without her.

Which was exactly what he was facing now.

Even worse? He’d never see his child.

“I need to go.” Armes pushed past them, walking angrily down the hall. If he passed anyone, he didn’t notice, his thoughts centered on the one thing he could never have.

“Centaur,” a woman’s voice stopped him in his tracks. Looking up from the ground, his eyes met that of the Sorceress.

A woman who’d stood idly by and watched, as Coral was drug from this world. From his world.

“Sorceress,” he growled. “You have a lot of nerve.”

She smiled. “I do not fear you, it is not me you wish to harm.”

“Pretty certain it is.

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