The Midnight Bride by Wilde Kati

Author:Wilde, Kati
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kati Wilde
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

7

Strax the Believer

The Skull Cliffs

While the storm raged above, three times did Strax take his wife. Her pleasured cries still rang in his ears and her sweet cunt still clutched his cock when the rain abruptly stopped and he no longer needed to serve as her shelter, but her bed. He rolled onto his back and loved the feel of her slight weight atop his chest, her head pillowed on his shoulder.

His cock stirred within her sultry heat, but he wouldn’t fuck her again. Not until morning. His Mara was strong, but for three days she had exhausted herself against the face of the cliff—and the most dangerous task was yet to come.

He expected her to sleep now, yet the absent play of her fingers in his hair told him that her mind was too occupied for slumber. So with a soft grunt, he told her, “Speak to me, Mara.”

One day, she might without prompting. But for so long on this journey she’d been alone—it was his own fault that she was unaccustomed to relying on anyone but herself.

Now she lifted her head to look down at him. Beneath the nighttime sky, her beautiful face was but a play of shadows and darkness, yet he could still see the soft gleam of her teeth as she hesitantly bit her bottom lip before saying, “I won’t give the gauntlet to Solegius.”

Relief slipped through his heart, because Strax knew not what he’d have done if she’d insisted upon giving that weapon to the tyrant. Yet his heart ached, too, because he knew what the cost of her decision might be.

Still he tried to reassure her. “We will free your family,” he vowed. “We will discover a way.”

“I have,” she said softly, her fingers tracing his jaw. “I intend to wear the gauntlet and destroy him.”

Tension locked his muscles. “You intend to wear it?”

Biting her lip again, she nodded. “After you told me of your clan’s blood oath to prevent anyone who would misuse the gauntlet’s power from wielding it, I thought…you did not believe in me, so you would never trust me with that power. I drugged you so that you wouldn’t be forced to stop me.”

The sweetest poisoning he’d ever known. “So that you could race ahead to Khides’ keep.”

“Yes,” she whispered now. “I must free my family, and you must prevent anyone unworthy from wielding the gauntlet. I thought it would be impossible for us to both have what we needed. But you love me and believe in me, so perhaps the impossible can be true. If I were to win the gauntlet, I could take it back to Aremond and destroy Solegius and his warlords. And you could remain with me, and make certain that I never misuse its power.”

That was truth. And it wasn’t the thought of Mara wielding the gauntlet that made Strax pause, but what might happen if it ever fell into another’s hands. A powerful queen was the first woman Khides had given the gauntlet to, and she’d used it fairly and wisely.

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