Minotaur: Blooded by Naomi Lucas

Author:Naomi Lucas [Lucas, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Fantasy
Publisher: Naomi Lucas
Published: 2018-08-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

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Aldora saw the outline of a dozen centaurs as she caught sight of the green light. One moment there had been nothing but mist, and in the next, it was broken up to reveal a pack of them with weapons poised. She screamed Vedikus’s name as they raised their weapons to attack.

Several spears sliced the air, cutting through the swirling, ethereal fog.

Her heart stopped as a spray of blood splattered the grass, accompanied by a howl. Vedikus dropped to his knees and she ran forward to reach him, her eyes trained on nothing but him and the burst of red gushing from his wounds. Her fingers found his when something caught her from behind, lifting her away.

“No!” she screamed. She fought whoever held her as she was swooped away by a pair of arms, kicking out and grasping for something—anything—within reach to fight her attacker. But her strength was nothing compared to a centaur and she was swiftly carried to the other side of the clearing.

“Your time has come Minotaur,” one of them shouted as they moved in to surround him.

“Vedikus!” she shrieked, seeing him rise up with his axes dripping with his blood. His flesh was torn from where several spears had grazed him. He glanced her way, rage filling his eyes and for a moment in time the mists surrounding him swirled across his body and illuminated his frame. He took a step toward her.

The centaurs closed in with sharp lances.

Panic laced her veins and her throat tightened, as a gut-wrenching wail rose from her chest. It was muffled when a palm covered her mouth.

“Calm, little human, calm,” a man hummed softly in her ear, holding her tightly against his unfamiliar body. She was held like a ragdoll, subdued with her feet swinging above the ground, higher up than any mere man could hold her. Realization struck her as bloodcurdling roars pierced her ears, that she was being trotted away. The ground moved swiftly beneath her dangling feet. “Calm, calm.”

Aldora tensed her fingers, reaching whatever flesh she could of her abductor to tear with little leeway. I need to get to the ground.

The yells raised and faded with each clash of metal, growing more distant each second. Tears pricked her eyes as she imagined the razor bone tips of the spears stabbing Vedikus’s body again and again. Her nails tore deep when she found velvet hide.

“Calm!” the centaur hissed, jostling her.

She didn’t care what he had to say and pressed the soles of her boots against his front legs and pushed off with all her might. Sweaty hands slid across her skin and she began to drop. They caught on her clothes before falling away completely, ripping the sleeve of her tunic.

She fell forward and landed hard on her knees, her arms slamming into the sodden ground a moment too late to catch her fall.

“Feral female,” the centaur sneered, rounding to her side, “we are here to save you, not hurt you!”

Aldora bit through the pain and grasped her dagger, rising up to face her new abductor, intent on killing him.

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