Three Worlds 02 - Seduce Me in Flames by Jacquelyn Frank

Author:Jacquelyn Frank [Frank, Jacquelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Paranormal, General, Man-Woman Relationships, Paranormal Romance Stories, Paranormal Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Militia, Princesses, Short Stories, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780345517685
Google: nV0yT0TOUlkC
Amazon: 0345517687
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-07-26T05:00:00+00:00

Balkin kept his teeth clenched tightly as she left him kneeling there like a kowtowing servant. It made his gut turn sour to think of himself handing his power over to her, but he consoled himself with thoughts of the future. Whether it was by his hand or by his clever Eirie’s, the princess—the empress—was not long for this world.

The only unexpected thing was this brute at her back. As Balkin was forced to kneel until she fully left the room, he used his vantage point to make a study of the big blond Tarian. Everything about him seemed to scream land-born Tarian. His body was heavily conditioned, clearly a man who used his muscle for a living. It was strange. You didn’t see very many land-born Tarians outside their own world and their own clan. There were a few, of course. But practically none who wanted anything to do with Allay. Mainly because Allay made it clear that it wanted nothing to do with them. So how did a land-born Tarian come to be at the back of the Allayan empress?

As soon as Ambrea and the brute were out of the room, Balkin surged up to his full height, shrugging his shoulders into his usual powerful stance. He shot a cold look at the other men slowly climbing to their own proper heights.

“Find out who that Tarian is. I want his name, his age, the names of who he runs with.”

“You’re thinking he’s some kind of gangster? Or mercenary?” Paxor Ricks asked as he dusted off his knee.

“I’d lean toward mercenary,” Balkin mused. “He reeks of being a hired gun. But who hired him? My little twit of a niece isn’t known for being so forward thinking. It has to be whoever orchestrated her escape from prison.”

“There was a report that a Tarian had been thrown in gaol right before the break. Possibly the same one?” Ricks queried.

Balkin’s eyes narrowed. “I’d say that would be a hell of a coincidence otherwise. So he liberates her from the wet rooms and brings her to the IM to claim her throne. But what’s in it for him?”

“Is he her lover?”

Balkin snorted. “I’m having a hard time imagining my milky niece being attractive to a man like that in any way, except perhaps as a means to an end. We’ll have to watch them. But if they’re lovers, my niece is going to be in for a very big shock when commoners realize there’s a Tarian in the royal bed. Especially a land-born beast like that. At least the space-born ones are somewhat civilized. The common people will be lying awake nights horrified at the idea of her dirty blood mixing with his savagery. In just a few weeks they’ll be crying for me to take the throne.”

But in the meantime, he was going to torture the hell out of his upstart niece. He was going to shove her monarchy down her fucking throat.

“She has no idea what it means to be queen.

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