Nobody's Fool (Fate's Fools Book 5) by Ophelia Bell

Author:Ophelia Bell [Bell, Ophelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Animus Press
Published: 2019-05-06T23:00:00+00:00

18

Ozzie

My body ached, but at least I had it back. I sat on the sofa, cradling my broken arm against my chest. It would heal within a few hours, but I’d have to suffer the pain until then.

What I couldn’t suffer was the fact that Deva had willingly left with that fucker.

“Will he hurt her?” Rohan asked.

I exchanged a dark look with Sandor, who had arrived with Bodhi’s mom and their dragon mate a few moments ago. He knew the score where Ouranos was concerned.

“He won’t be gentle, I’ll put it that way,” I said, watching Sandor for any sign of contradiction.

His nostrils flared and he clenched his fists. I’d wondered whether the gods in my memory were different than in this reality, but apparently, they were the same. Ouranos had a reputation as a brutal, abusive, overbearing male who enjoyed dominating women, and not in a fun way.

“Her sacrifice worked, at least,” Sandor said. “We have our voices and our wings back, which means we can rally the turul to help, though most are still feeling betrayed that we broke the curse.”

It didn’t take a dragon’s ability to read auras to know the other four were losing their fucking minds. Keagan was pacing angrily enough to leave a groove in the floor, Rohan’s skin had erupted into golden scales, and Llyr had physically expanded until his shirt looked like it might rip to pieces. Thankfully he hadn’t fully shifted, but he looked like he was about to.

Bodhi was the only one who seemed the least bit reasonable, but all he did was stare through the hole I’d made in the glass door when Ouranos punted me.

“Help what?” Llyr rumbled. “We don’t exactly have a plan.”

“We have to get into the realm of the gods,” I said.

“He has to know that’s the first place we’d look,” Llyr argued.

I shook my head. “If he’s the same god I remember, he’s too arrogant to care whether we chase him or not. He’ll go to his castle, which rumor has it is practically impenetrable. Based on what Deva shared with me, the realm of the gods was where I first made love to her, so if I have any chance of reclaiming my memories, that’s where it will happen.”

In a blur, Llyr reached me, wrapping his enormous hand around my throat. He yanked me off the sofa and pinned me to the ground, hovering above me, eyes wild and horns sprouting from his skull.

“If you’d made love to her before, this wouldn’t be happening. She’d have had the strength to fight him off!”

“You said that you understood my reasons!” I rasped through my ever-narrowing windpipe. My vision started to darken at the edges and I twisted in his grip, but he was too strong.

Finally Keagan and Rohan caught on to my struggle and yanked Llyr off me. I sat up, coughing and rubbing at my throat.

Llyr’s horns receded and he got himself under control, then turned and stomped toward the window to stare out at the evening sky.

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