Lord of the Abyss & Desert Warrior

Author:Singh, Nalini [Singh, Nalini]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459282216
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-01T08:00:00+00:00

And who would delight in bringing down a night-horse.

“Go,” Micah told the proud beasts after they’d dismounted and unburdened the night-horses of their gear. “We thank you for your help.”

The horses shook their heads.

Gripping their manes he looked each in the eye. “You must go. The things that roam here will hurt you, and if they do, Liliana will cry. I don’t like it when Liliana cries.” He put all the menace he was capable of—and the Guardian of the Abyss was capable of a great deal—into his voice. “Go.”

The night-horses reared and turned, neighing loudly as they raced away.

Going to the saddlebags, he removed the knives and strapped them to Lily’s body so that she would have physical weapons, before picking up his sword.

“Wait.” Liliana took out the food Emmy had packed and forced them both to eat to further armor themselves with energy.

Prepared as well as they could be, they stepped into the hungry jaws of the Dead Forest. Things jeered and skittered at them from above, but nothing came close.

The strange plants that smelled of decaying meat, however, tried to lick out, as if they would wrap their enormous tongues around Micah and Liliana and drag them into the teeth-filled maw of their “flowers.” Micah sliced out at one aggressive tongue and the plant screamed, its appendage gushing black blood. The others snapped back at the warning. Walking past without pause, Liliana used her knife to hack away a vine that had attempted to wrap itself around her arm.

That was his mate, he thought, fierce and strong.

Teeth bared in a smile of pride, he walked beside her as they cut, sawed and sliced their way through this once-lush forest become a nightmare. It took too long, time slipping through their fingers at an inexorable pace. Bones crunched underneath his boots sometime later, hours after full dark.

“My father,” Liliana said, flinching at the sound, deep grooves around her mouth, “disposes of his enemies here or in the lake.” A hollow statement. “He used to ask his minions to bury them, but he no longer cares, as long as there’s no stench from the rotting flesh.”

Micah stepped with more care after that, for though some of these bones might be of men who had once served the Blood Sorcerer, many would be those of innocents. It was as he was making his way around a skull gleaming white in the night air that he caught his first glimpse of what had once been Elden Castle.

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