Amazon Queen by Lori Devoti

Author:Lori Devoti
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Magic, Action & Adventure, Amazons, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Women soldiers, General, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781439167724
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-04-27T01:22:00+00:00

Chapter 14

He spun so quickly, I didn’t see the movement, but I saw him duck, saw his hand shoot above his head, and I saw his grin when he caught the cannonball of rock in his bare hand. “The queen is back.”

I didn’t share his joviality. I jumped and kicked, aiming for his head. He dropped the rock and plowed forward, his head going between my legs. With me straddling his shoulder, he stood. Momentum sent me falling backward. I would have tumbled to the ground except he held me by one calf. I dangled with my back to his, my hair brushing the ground.

I cursed, then used every bit of abdominal strength I had to pull myself back up. I grabbed him by the hair and jerked, then dropped my weight forward. I landed palms down in a handstand that I quickly converted to a flip. Four feet away, I faced him.

The grin was back.

I growled, and he rushed me.

He was fast, preternaturally fast. I was too, but nothing compared him. I tried, but was unable to move out of his path. He slammed into me, knocking me onto the ground.

His full body weight pressing me into the earth, he stared down at me. “If we work together, you can get everything you want.”

My heart pounded against my breastbone. “You think?” I asked.

He dipped his face lower, so his lips barely brushed mine. “I know.”

I didn’t move; my mind was whirling. My training said to toss him off, to wipe the wearisome smile off his face, but another part of me, a part I’d forgotten existed, couldn’t move, not without doing something that would give away thoughts I didn’t want to be having, shouldn’t be having.

He was a son. Whether I thought killing Amazon infant sons was wrong or not, I didn’t approve of what my mother had done, and I didn’t want to follow in her footsteps.

His lips brushed mine again, and I caught a whiff of the scent I’d noticed that first time in the woods, earthy and masculine, dangerous and alluring. And this time it was very alluring. There was no denying it.

When his lips brushed mine a third time, I leaned up and captured his mouth with mine.

Adrenaline rushed through me. He tasted of mint, not the fake taste of toothpaste, but the real zing of mint grown wild in the woods. His chin was covered in stubble. It rasped over my skin, hurt and excited me at the same time.

His hand moved from the ground beside me to my arms. His hands, the same hands that had grabbed me so roughly before, softened.

I softened too, pressure releasing from me like air from a deflating beach ball. Then as his hands roamed past my arms onto my stomach, pushed up the thin tee I wore, new pressure began to build.

“Excuse us.” Two older women wearing stretchy shorts and knee socks stumbled to a stop beside us. At least I assumed they were older, based on their shoes and clothing from the waist down.

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