Death's Queen by Lisa Blackwood

Author:Lisa Blackwood [Blackwood, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Published: 2017-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Soryn had been true to his word. While he’d returned to his bath and Lamarra had returned to scrubbing her own body with vigor, she couldn’t shake the feeling he was already courting her in subtle ways.

A look here. A glance there. Softly spoken words that were innocent on the surface, but laced with a seductive rumble that held her enchanted. And she’d shamelessly watched him as he exited the pool and went over to sit on the stone bench where he started to oil and groom his feathers.

Lamarra swiftly finished her bath and emerged to wrap the largest towel she could find around her body. Then she perched on the far end of the bench and started teasing knots from her hair. She glanced in Soryn’s direction to find him watching her while he oiled one of his long primary flight feathers.

“I could help you with that,” he said and gestured at her wild mass of hair. “And if you’d like to learn about feather care, I could show you the basics. We enjoy mutual grooming.”

His expression was pure innocence, but Lamarra didn’t believe it for a moment. She was certain if she scooted closer to him they would end up doing more than grooming.

She couldn’t accept or welcome any of his advances. Not if she wanted to avoid a broken heart. As she’d told him, her future was clear. While she hadn’t come out and said it in so many words, she was certain that once the threat of the acolytes was removed from this time, she would be forced to return to her own to continue the battle with the enemy there.

Once there, she expected she would then take up all the duties of a normal dead queen—ones which a living body could not survive.

She had no idea when or where that fate would find her, but she would have to be ready to take up the mantle of leadership when it did. If she allowed herself to fall in love with the Soryn of this time, it would just lead to more heartbreak for both of them.

Sighing, she reflected it was lucky she didn’t remember her past life with him. If she did, this task of remaining aloof would be impossible.

So she would not love him.

It was that simple.

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