Horns for the Harem Girl by Lynn Red

Author:Lynn Red
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: historical romance, alpha male, paranormal romance, pnr, magical romance, shape shifter, period romance, werewolf shifter
Publisher: Tumbling Beauty Press
Published: 2015-05-19T23:00:00+00:00

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“He... Helena? How are you... why are you here? And what in the world is this?”

Her father’s voice roused Helena from a slumber that felt like it had lasted a month. She rolled over, popped her back and her shoulders and her hips as she always had and then instinctively recoiled, covering herself... even though she was wearing a full, and very modest, set of pajamas.

“My daughter! Home!”

Running to her, her father openly let the tears run down his cheeks and embraced her. “I thought you weren’t allowed to leave. I thought we’d never see you again, I—wait, how did you get here in the first place?”

“The prince brought me,” she said, truthfully. “And we’re not allowed to leave, it’s just that there’s an emergency at the palace and everyone was sent away. I’m lucky to still have a home. Most of the women were put up in a hotel in the city.”

Helena was a little surprised at how easily her tongue told a series of lies to the man who raised her. Perhaps the harem life was rubbing off on her a little more than she realized with a shock of horror.

When he finally pulled away and she wasn’t buried in her father’s long, thick beard, she finally got a look at him. The past six months seemed to have aged him a decade or more. His full, normally round cheeks had hollowed. His eyes were further back in his head than she remembered, and were ringed with black circles. But he still had the same boisterous laugh and bright, honest smile that she remembered so fondly.

“Girls!” he called to her sisters. “Come quickly! Helly,” that’s what he called her, “is home on vacation from the palace!”

As the girls filed in, the first one, her sister Alara, noticed that she was covered in sand, and the second that she smelled a bit like an animal. She’d laughed that off. “We had to take horseback to get here,” she said. “There were fires in the city,” she didn’t bother to explain that the ibex who brought her here was the very one responsible for said fires, “and so the palace had to be evacuated for security reasons.”

If any of them disbelieved her, none made it clear by the way they looked at her or the way they embraced her.

“Alara!” her father finally said, with a loud clap of his hands. “Let’s celebrate!”

“With what?” Selene, the middle sister, said. “We’ve nothing to eat, and hardly any water left in the barrels.”

Flustered for a moment, her father looked back and forth before regaining his composure. “Well, with whatever we have! It doesn’t matter. The rains will come, the land will provide. Your sister is home and we’ll celebrate. Now, do as I say!”

With a grumble, two of the five girls rose to their feet and tromped off. “We haven’t even a goat to give us milk,” she heard one say as they went. “What are we supposed to—?”

A great crashing sound, from somewhere at the other end of the small house, interrupted her.

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