Hunted Warrior by Piper Lindsey

Author:Piper, Lindsey [Piper, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

FOURTEEN

Mal gripped the iron gate and squeezed until pain radiated up his arm in a slow burn. “A dragon.”

“Yes.”

“At the Grievance.”

“Four days from now.”

Avyi glanced away, toward where water flowed beneath a grate at the side of the cobblestone street. No traffic here. Few people. A residential area where human beings left for work in the morning and returned home at night. Ordinary lives. They would never have any idea that he stood there trying not to demolish the whole neighborhood in a flash of frustration.

Giva. He was the fucking Honorable Giva.

And it didn’t matter what he did. Never had? Choices that weren’t choices at all.

“I saw its shadow. The shape of wings and limbs—maybe a tail, a head. But it was a dragon and it was furious. Flames everywhere.”

“There aren’t dragons, Avyi. Even if you buy into every myth and ancient tradition about the Great Dragon and the Chasm, you can’t believe a random dragon will fly over the next Grievance. It’s insane. Time’s up. Adventure over. You need to come with me, back to Tigony lands.”

He grabbed her arms. She tried to fight, with her vicious weapons and her wildcat determination, but he was stronger and more resolved. A brief shock of electricity to her arms flared her eyelids wide, so wide that he could see the whites around bright green-gold irises.

So damn beautiful.

Why her?

Why some half-crazed woman who spoke about the future and meant it? A woman who might be so irreparably damaged by her years with Dr. Aster that every word she’d uttered to Mal was an unconscious falsehood—or an outright lie. She’d taken whatever scant certainty he possessed and pounded it beneath her killer boots.

“I’m not going back to your prison,” she said viciously. “I will not be held captive and interrogated. I will not be doubted when so much is at stake.” She stared at him with murderous accusations tinting her eyes nearly black. “I’m free now. Do you really believe you could get me back to Greece, let alone keep me there? You couldn’t keep me there before, and you sure as hell won’t keep me now.”

He realized how tightly he held her arms, and how many shocks rocketed between them. When he held Avyi, he wasn’t immune to his own twisted, nerve-jolting power. It hurt. It was unnerving. But it also fueled the dangerous impulses that charged his body—not his gift, but his body. He’d been kissing Avyi. Now he was brawling. They twined together in a heady cocktail.

“You’ll do exactly what I want,” he growled.

Avyi stilled. She touched his cheek, then lifted on her toes to kiss the corner of his lips. “Let me go. You know what I believe will happen. Do you really think your threats and bluster do a thing to dent my confidence?”

He exhaled heavily. “No.”

“You’ve seen how this works, even if you turn away from what I’ve lived with my entire life. After all that, do you finally believe me? Please, Malnefoley . . . I need you to believe me.

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