Mowab Rider by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Awaken to Peace Press
Published: 2019-01-24T06:00:00+00:00

I’d observed Dolpheus with many women. It was unavoidable given how much time he spent with women and how much time he and I spent together.

But never had I witnessed him behaving the way he was with the mowab rider. I thought it was perhaps that most other women surrendered to him immediately; they were all want no matter what particular version of the hard-to-get game they attempted to play, if they could keep their panties on long enough to play it at all. Because I knew it couldn’t be the stirrings of love. Dolpheus didn’t believe in love. It was traitorous, he said, just as most women were.

I didn’t argue with this. I hadn’t believed in love before I gave myself to Ilara either. And I wouldn’t disagree with him now, when love was responsible for the shattered pieces I was trying to keep together within my chest cavity, which felt cavernous and empty in a way it never had before. Even before Ilara, I’d never felt this. She’d ruined me, not only to all other women, but to anything less than what she and I shared together, what we understood was possible, the unicorn in the meadow.

When Dolpheus and the mowab rider, leaving her ride aside, finally joined me, I studied them warily—not because they’d made me wait during an already long day. Dolpheus and I had an understanding. Life was perilous and unreliable, and sticky and terrible. We’d make the most of it, whatever we had left to us, however long or short that was. We had each other’s backs, even in this.

I wanted my friend to be cautious mostly because he had a dreamy glint to his smoldering, brown eyes that he rarely, if ever, had. This was the look of a ladies’ man who’d finally found someone who challenged him.

“Tanus, this is Duleene,” Dolpheus said with a hand to the small of her back, his sword sheathed, the spake he’d retrieved still hanging from his free hand.

“Duleene,” I said cautiously. “The mowab rider who tried to kill us.” I rose to my feet. Even if Dolpheus trusted this woman already, I didn’t. A kiss or ten wouldn’t convince me this woman didn’t mean us harm.

“I tried to kill you because I believed you killed my parents,” Duleene snapped.

“And you no longer believe that?”

Her eyes flared in a swirl of emotion. “Maybe. Or maybe you are the assholes everyone says you are and you’re lying to me.” She switched her wild eyes over to Dolpheus. “Maybe the infamous lady lover is playing me.” She moved to step away from Dolpheus’ reach.

He shot a hand out to grab her by the wrist. She froze, eyes ablaze.

“Hey,” he cooed. “Let’s not go there again. Tanus and I are warriors. It’s what we do. But we didn’t kill your parents, and I’m not playing you.”

Her body softened. He pulled her closer. “I trust you,” he said.

I hope you don’t, I mind spoke with urgency. Keep that spake in hand, Olph.

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