The Lady and the Tigershifter: Space Shifters Chronicles Christmas by Lockharte Kara

Author:Lockharte, Kara [Lockharte, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Smartia Publishing
Published: 2017-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

Discovering she was a werewolf princess was one thing…

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Making peace with the Tiger Lord who forced her into marriage is something else altogether….

Chapter 1 - TAKEN BY THE TIGERLORD

Present Day

Day 447, Eighth Month, Year 2257

Kalasharv Castle, House Stargazer, Tigrantine Empire, Altai

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If I could make it to the next balcony and jump, the cliff would break my fall.

Free-climbing across a weathered stone wall a couple of hundred clicks in the air, while wearing an itchy wedding bodice required intense focus. Specifically, not looking down.

I made the mistake of glancing below. The maw of the canyon gaped, unending in its darkness. The world started to spin while terror grabbed at my stomach.

I squeezed my eyes shut and willed my breathing to slow.

When I finally opened my eyes again, I could see a group of dactyls, each the size of a man’s head, their leathery wings fluttering. Brutal but effective security against exactly what I was doing. With a makeshift blow gun while my captors weren’t watching, I had been slowly depopulating the swarm that nested just below my balcony. I’d never get rid of them all, I had killed enough of the toothy things to give me a chance of escape. There were sensors undoubtedly embedded in the wall and some silent alarm was probably going off somewhere. But if I could get to the next balcony quickly, it wouldn’t matter. The flight suit I had snuck into my rooms, and now wore over the stupid bodice, would complete its charging by then, enough for a short flight out of the castle boundaries.

If it actually worked.

I didn’t have much experience with flight suits, any to be exact, and the wedding bodice I wore underneath it made it itch.

My handhold disintegrated and I fumbled at the marble head of a snarling dragon.

It seemed like forever, but eventually, I got to the balcony railing. In relative safety, I leaned against one of the door-flanking columns while sweat poured from my skin.

I had captured space pirates, escaped from the Alpha of Nightclaw and journeyed my way across the universe to see the Kai. But the prospect of truly coming face to face with the Tigerlord-who-never-told-me-who-he-really-was brought a bitter realization to me—if I stayed, I would be instrumental in his downfall and I couldn’t let that happen. Escape was the only option.

The lights in the room adjoining the balcony flickered on and my pulse jumped to a million beats a second. I melted into the wall.

Calm down. The chances that whoever it was would come out to the balcony were small.

The inner doors opened. Kai’s voice filtered through.

No. It couldn’t be.

He had shattered my life and haunted my dreams, and now he stood between me and freedom. Inappropriate laughter bubbled up in my chest, the lasting mark of what the counselors had deemed the result of atypical childhood socialization. Of all the rooms in this castle, of all the balconies that had the clearest flight path, of all the people it could have been—he wasn’t even supposed to arrive until tomorrow.

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