Time of Legends 03 - God King by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Marius let out a groan of pleasure as Marika rolled off him and lay back on the bed

with a contented sigh. Her eyes were closed, and she purred like a satisfied cat,

blonde hair tousled with errant strands across her face. He stared at her for a moment,

relishing this rare moment of escape from the world of plans, defences and warriors.

Marburg was a city readying for invasion, and it felt good to take a moment for

himself amid the frenetic battle preparations.

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“You’re staring again,” she said.

“How do you know?” he asked.

“I’m a princess,” she said, as though that answered his question. “If we can sense

a pea in our beds, we can surely sense when a self-satisfied man is staring at us.”

“Self-satisfied?” he said with mock hurt. “You have a viper’s tongue, Marika.”

“You weren’t complaining about my tongue last night,” she said, finally opening

her eyes and pushing herself up onto her elbows. Marius smiled and traced his

fingertips down her slender neck, over her small breasts and down her flat stomach.

“Indeed I wasn’t,” he agreed. “Though I can’t help but feel your brother wouldn’t

approve of the use you put it to or your choice of lover.”

She laughed and rose from the bed, fetching a silver ewer filled with water.

Marius stared at her naked body, the sway of her hips and the beads of sweat running

down her spine sending a tingling warmth through his entire body. She half-turned

and nodded.

“Aldred never does,” she said. “He’d have me live out my life as a virgin

spinster.”

She laughed. “Ranald’s balls, if he knew half the men I’d bedded, he’d have me

locked in the Raven Tower, never to see the light of day again.”

“And that would be a crime against the pleasures of the flesh.”

She padded back to bed with the ewer and a pair of goblets, pouring one for each

of them. Marius took the proffered drink and drained it in one gulping swallow. The

march along the coast through the swamps had given him a terrible thirst that never

seemed to be quenched.

He dropped the goblet to the floor and leaned up to kiss Marika.

“Why me?” he asked suddenly.

“Why you, what?”

“You know fine well what I mean,” he said. “Why take me as your lover, a man

your brother would cheerfully gut? Is it because I am an energetic and thoughtful

bed-mate with the body of an athletic god or is it simply because I am a count of the

Empire?”

“A little of both,” she admitted. “You are an enjoyable bed partner, but I need

more than that. I need a man who can achieve things. A man who can match my

dreams with an ability to shape this world to the way it ought to be.”

In any other woman, such candour would have surprised him, but Princess

Marika had proven to be a far more interesting woman than any he had met before.

She had an open honesty to her ambition that he liked, a mind free of the subterfuges

and coquettish games played by most women of his acquaintance. Amid such grim

times, the company of a beautiful woman free from the normal petty games of her

sex was refreshing.

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