Dawn of Fate and Valor (Awakened Fates Book 2) by Lucinda Dark & Rebecca Grey

Author:Lucinda Dark & Rebecca Grey [Dark, Lucinda & Grey, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

17

DEVONRY

When Solo reaches for my waist, I balk and take a step back. “I can do it,” I insist.

His head tilts to the side, but he doesn’t argue with me. Instead, he merely gestures for me to proceed. With a quick inhale, I reach up, latching onto the edge of the horse’s saddle and then hook my foot into the stirrup. Bouncing on the ball of the one foot left on the ground, I heft myself up and over the saddle. My stomach slams into the seat and all of the air I held in rushes out.

I wish I’d worn trousers.

I hear Solo’s sigh behind me and then a big, firm hand touches the round of my ass and pushes. I yelp, the sound echoing into the night, as I jerk my leg over the other side and sit up.

I whip around to hiss at him. “I said—”

“Scoot forward,” he demands, not letting me finish.

I blink in astonishment. Since when has he become this fucking rude? No, that’s a ridiculous question. He’s always been rude. I’m the one who’s an idiot for expecting better. I shuffle forward on my butt, gathering the skirts around and under me to ensure that I’m adequately covered. The cloak I’m wearing thankfully falls long enough to cover the skin bared by the astride seat I’ve taken.

Without waiting another beat, Solo latches onto the back of the saddle in a far more elegant move, hefts himself up into the seat and takes the reins once more. I narrow my eyes back on him, but he doesn’t respond to my attention. Instead, one muscled arm wraps around my middle and lifts me against his chest.

I gasp and scramble to slide my other leg back over the horse’s back and finally, my skirts fall into place, rising a little higher on my legs as they’re bunched up between my thighs. “There,” he says. “Perfect.”

“You couldn’t have gotten extra horses?” I grumble with irritation.

“We don’t want to draw attention,” he replies smoothly.

Solid reasoning, I know, but with the heat of Solo’s chest pressed into my back, I wonder if that risk was worth it. Solomon’s arm remains around my side, keeping me plastered against him as the horse shifts beneath us, stepping forward and backward as if to adjust its new weight. I glance back over Solo’s shoulder, finding that Celine and Argyle have finished getting onto their horse as well, and Celine is in much the same position. Her face is pinched as she tries to lean as far forward as she can to stay away from Argyle who, for his part, appears merely amused at her blatant display of hatred.

“Ready?” Solo calls.

“Lead the way,” Argyle replies, and together, the four of us head down the pathway toward the same seaside village we had come from merely days ago.

Solomon steers the horse over the rocky cliffside and the scent of salt and water invades my nostrils. I lift my face to the dark skies, turned nearly black now that the sun has long since set.

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