House of Gods by K.A. Linde

Author:K.A. Linde [Linde, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.A. Linde Inc.

28

The Complication

“Oh gods,” Kerrigan gasped.

Her stomach dropped out of her body and fear replaced resolve from the hours prior of watching competitors kill in cold blood. She would do what she had to do. She had killed Marcellius yesterday. It had even been easy. She wouldn’t see it in her nightmares the way that she had after the Battle of Lethbridge. This was the price she would pay to get home.

But Fordham?

She couldn’t kill Fordham.

Her mate. Her love. Her other half.

No one else was capable of killing him either. With or without his magic, he was single-handedly the best fighter she had ever encountered. He had trained her body and mind to become as good as she was. He had stood at her side for the last year during dragon training, only getting better and better. There was a reason he was the king of the House of Shadows and the de facto leader of their section of dragon riders. He had earned it all along the way. He’d fought on battlefields regularly within the House of Shadows before he was exiled from their depths. And he would walk through this tournament with a mask of indifference on his beautiful face and an unparalleled precision to cut down his enemies.

She wouldn’t win against him even if she tried. And she didn’t want to try.

“I have to drop out,” she said as the love of her life strode across the sand with his chest bare and black pants fitted around his powerful legs.

The boos turned to cheers at the sight of him. The gorgeous male that he was. No one, save for Vulsan, had probably even seen a full-blooded Fae this close—at least not in years. Fordham was everything that Fae were supposed to be—terrifying, beyond-comprehension beautiful, with an aura of domination in every step. There was no denying the energy he radiated. Like a nightmare come to life, but one you would gladly go to your death for.

“What?” Constantine asked as he came to his feet.

“I’m dropping out. Who do I speak to?”

Evander opened and closed his mouth. “You … you can’t drop out.”

“You heard the man when we signed you up. You could have left up to an hour before your first fight. You’re in the tournament now.”

“No,” she said at once. “This was a mistake. A horrible mistake. I should … I should drop out.”

Constantine put a hand on her shoulder. “You’re shaking. What is going on?”

“Don’t you remember?” she asked. “Don’t you remember him?”

Constantine glanced back down at the two competitors in the arena as they squared off. Recognition slipped into his face. “He’s Iris’s latest pet.”

“Yes.”

“And you know him from before.”

“Yes,” she choked out.

“You were on the same battlefields.”

She closed her eyes. That was the truth and so very far from reality. “Yes.”

Constantine sighed. “And you love him.”

She met his gaze with all the pain in her expression. “We left our world together, but time works differently. He’s been here longer, and somehow, he got entangled with Iris and Augustan.

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