Pounding Earth by Erin Bedford

Author:Erin Bedford [Bedford, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DDCO Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-03-18T07:00:00+00:00

12

The unaligned territory didn’t really belong to them. It sat on the junction of where the four kingdoms of Waesigar meet. Technically, they were in everyone’s territory. It’s how they had been able to stay there for so long without one of the lords coming in to kick them out. Any action by a lord to move against the unaligned would raise the tension between that lord and the others. No one liked armies near their borders, after all.

Most of the time, the unaligned kept to themselves and didn’t make waves, another reason the lords didn’t find them worth the trouble. Lately, though, they’d begun to grow, and those newcomers weren’t just making waves. They were making tsunamis. My father was already on the verge of sending men in to take them out, and I had no doubt the rest of the lords would follow.

Now, though, it wasn’t my father or the other lords they had to worry about. It was me, one pregnant, pissed-off dragon. A volatile combination that would decide if the unaligned even existed anymore after I was through with them.

“Fix your face,” Raiden whispered next to me as we headed on foot toward the meeting place. It was just off the border of the North but not completely into the unaligned compound.

“What’s wrong with my face?” I snapped, already irritable from the travel. I had a hard enough time getting comfortable in a real bed, sleeping on the cold hard ground wasn’t making it any easier.

“You look ready to shed blood, love.” Jack touched my lower back. “We don’t want to give off the wrong kind of signal before we even start the talks.”

“What kind of signal would that be?” I asked with as much snark as I could muster.

“Threatening.”

“They have one of my men. Of course, I’m threatening them.” I glared at Jack, my face heating up so much, I knew that I would accidentally light something on fire if I didn’t calm down. My fingers curled into fists, and I took deep cleansing breaths. Save the meltdown for the enemy.

“We don’t know for sure that Orion sanctioned the capture,” my sister reminded me with a pointed look. Aeis, along with the twins, led the group and had to glance back over her shoulder to see me, but even then, I could feel the chastising coming off her in waves. “You don’t want to pick a fight with the unaligned before you even become the Lady of the West, do you?”

My jaw tightened, and I shook my head. “No, but if we find out that Orion was responsible for this, then all bets are off.” I flashed my fangs, my skin crackling with power. “They will burn with the rest of them.”

“Maya.” My sister gave me a soft look. “You’re talking about women and children. Innocents who know nothing of what has happened. You can’t kill a whole group of people based on the actions of a few individuals among them.”

My anger lessened, and I blew out a hard breath.

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