Land of Strength and Sorrow (Secrets of Orendor Book 1) by Cassandra Fear

Author:Cassandra Fear [Fear, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Manuscript Template
Publisher: Cassandra Fear
Published: 2018-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Jovi’s eyes opened to sunlight as it streaked over her. She jerked up, and groaned as her back shouted with pain. She’d fallen asleep sitting up against the tree. How much time had passed?

She pushed past her achy muscles and stood, stretching from side to side in an attempt to loosen up. It worked, and she high-tailed it back to camp with one thing on her mind. Cappa.

The conversation they had the night before floated through her head, every word beating down on her. She had to find him, to fix everything. She needed to tell him the truth, that he was important to her.

Time disappeared with every step she took, but she didn’t care, couldn’t care. Only making things right with Cappa mattered.

The first step would be to find him, though. She pulled back the flaps of tent after tent and found warriors sleeping, their bare butts poking from under fur blankets. Heat crept into her cheeks, but she kept going, kept searching, refusing to let anything deter her, not even a man in the nude.

When she came to the last tent and found it empty, she wanted to scream her frustrations for all to hear. Somehow, she staved off the feeling as she circled the camp from the outside. Perhaps he hadn’t slept inside, but under the twinkling stars instead.

A female giggle drew her attention. A sinking feeling smacked her stomach and her heart froze, but she crept forward, her eyes wide as she stopped in her tracks. Her eyes landed on the source of the laughter and she stiffened. Air rushed from her lungs as if she’d fallen on her chest, every bit of wind dissipating in a swift moment.

Cappa sat on the ground, laugh lines wrinkling his face and sparks of his happiness gleaming from his eyes. He spoke to a very pretty woman. Gorgeous, if Jovi wanted to be honest, which right now she didn’t. In fact, seeing how close Cappa sat to her made her stomach shift and it threatened to lurch anything she’d eaten in the past out. If either of them moved, their lips would touch.

Jovi’s hands dropped to her sides as she curled her nails into her palms. What is he doing? she wondered.

He should be talking to her, not some woman who wore such a small amount of clothing all her curves were laid bare, to be seen by anyone and everyone. But you ruined that with your little speech last night, she chastised herself.

Her heart sank. She had done this, made him reach for the arms of another. Not that they’d ever wrapped their arms around each other, not really, but Jovi had to admit the thought had crossed her mind plenty of times.

Cappa could speak to whomever he wanted. She didn’t rule him. Jovi should have turned around, backed out the way she’d come in. Instead, she stared hard, her feet rooted to the ground. She wouldn’t be going anywhere but forward as she interrupted whatever…that was.

Jovi took a minute and composed herself, then she marched forward and told Cappa she wanted to speak with him.

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