Nightshade (Arravan #1) by Shea Godfrey

Author:Shea Godfrey [Godfrey, Shea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, lesbian, romance, Magic, Princess, Adventure, Warrior Women
ISBN: 9781602821514
Google: xoObQAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1602821518
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2010-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

“You should be up and preparing,” Joaquin said.

Jessa held the sheet to her chest as she sat up, feeling instantly exposed in her homespun shift. “I’ll be ready.”

“Will you? Where is your ugly Vhaelin bitch? Should she not be attending you?”

“She seeks food to break my fast,” Jessa lied.

“I should send Serabee to find her then, yes?”

“That is unnecessary.”

“Do not tell me what is necessary, sister,” Joaquin replied. “You have only to look beautiful and smile, not think. Never to think. You are but a sweet-smelling cunt to entice our Arravan Prince like a hungry dog, do you understand? You have no power but what is between your legs.”

“So I’ve been told,” Jessa said. That she responded at all when he insulted her surprised them both. Her anger came alive at his words and part of her welcomed it. “Then I shall wash with even sweeter smelling soaps so that my scent is strong. Would that please you, Joaquin?”

Her response made him smile. “Now is the time for your charm then, sister, yes. Their women seem to dote on you, which is good. I had not expected that. But it is Malcolm you must worry about now, yes?”

“I know why I’m here,” she answered.

His smile deepened at her words and she did not miss it. “You know nothing, as always. Do as you are told and I shall take Serabee with me to the Green Hills. Would you like that? To be completely free of his presence?” He taunted her, knowing how she loathed Serabee. “You’d not try to run?”

“Where would I go?”

Joaquin laughed. “Yes, where would you go?”

“Take him or do not take him, Joaquin. He is your dog, not mine.”

He seemed to be genuinely insulted. “Dog? He is a Lord of the Fakir.”

“If you insist.”

Jessa reacted as he moved about the bed, and though her first instinct was to scramble for the other side and place the bed between them, she found her feet hitting the floor beside his own, stopping him short. His apparent shock filled her with satisfaction.

“You like to mock me, Joaquin,” she said. “But you know I’m not a fool. I will do as our father bids me and snare him a prince. Then you may rise within the ranks of our blood, slitting their throats as you go. Sylban shall be happy for the company, I think, for he’s not been the same since Lybinus disappeared. Perhaps you might become his new shadow. At least your scraps would be from a better cut of meat.”

Joaquin grabbed the hair at the back of her neck, and Jessa’s head snapped back as she was pulled against him. She did not make a sound. “Serabee has always said that you were hiding. You were wise to do so.” His left hand reached up and slid with slow ease upon her right breast, cupping it before taking the nipple between his fingers and squeezing in a brutal manner. “But do not overtax yourself. You’re only the rabbit, my sister, and you know this.

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