Draka's Heat (Sidonions) by Olivia Riley

Author:Olivia Riley [Riley, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

DRAKA

The brightburn gods were punishing him.

That had to be it. Why else would they have played with him like this, getting his hopes up only to shatter them?

It was because of what he’d done, wasn’t it? Because of his past. He didn’t deserve her. That’s why they were keeping her from him. Making him think he had a chance. Only to present him with the wrong human.

He’d ignored the human male, pretending he wasn’t there. If it wasn’t for Oza, he likely would have stormed out of that room just as Margrul had.

Oza had made a good point, so he spared him, but it hadn’t made him feel better about not finding his woman. And now more than ever he thought he wouldn’t, that she really was lost to him.

So, he took that realization hard. And lost himself in brim.

Fighting only freed him of some of the pain, turned his thoughts away if only briefly. He fought the uugari, feeling nothing, letting himself go to the drink, hoping his despair left him if only for a night.

As he swung and hit the uugari across the skull, he watched him fall, hardly relishing in the triumph. He stood over the uugari and howled. The others thought it a howl of victory but in truth he was roaring at the gods.

Please, he prayed. Give her to me and I will dedicate my life to her. I will pay for everything I have done. I will take any punishment but this. Just let her be mine.

Give her to me.

The others yipped and barked around him. He let the prayer go and growled at an ashora who got too close. His vision swam a little, but he still wanted to fight some more. He wanted to fight until he couldn’t.

The inmates circling him began to blur, and he was ready to grab another and go off on them when the human male broke from the crowd and came toward him. Unthinking, Draka bared his teeth and snarled at him.

“So you want to fight, little human, eh?” He grinned. “Let’s fight.”

“No!” The human put up his hand, obviously terrified and rightly so. “No. It’s one of your men. He’s hurt!”

It took Draka a second to understand his words. His expression twisted. “Who?”

The male pointed toward a pile of crates. Draka pushed the other inmates aside so he could better see. They parted and he saw Oza sprawled on the ground.

He tensed, rage burning up his throat. What had happened? Oza had been fine a moment ago. Did someone hurt him?

If someone had, he’d kill them. He’d lost the woman, he wasn’t about to lose his friend too.

He broke from the group and rushed for him, the human close behind. He slid down on his knees before Oza and grabbed him, pulling him into a sitting position.

“Oza? Oza.” He shook him a little, and the ashora’s head lolled to one side. He glared at the human. “What happened?”

“We were sitting, and I heard him groan in pain.

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