Viola Grace - Escaping Lightning by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, shapeshifter, Paranormal, Sci-fi
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2011-10-31T20:35:17+00:00

The guards at the entrance to his study stood straight as she passed them. They did not challenge her and that worried her in and of itself.

The outer room was empty, and when she knocked on the inner room, a voice answered, “Come in, Onari.”

She opened the door and at his gesture, closed it behind her.

She walked up to his desk and stood still, looking down at the rich wood of the desktop.

“Why won’t you meet my gaze?”

“It isn’t seemly, Your Majesty.”

“Seemly or not, show me those eyes.” His demand was implacable.

Slowly, she raised her gaze to his and the heavy pulse in her loins started again. “Satisfied, Your Majesty?”

He grinned, showing a hard jaw with an impish sense of humour. “Not hardly. I was rock hard after lunch and I told you what would happen if you aroused me again.”

She blinked and blushed. “I didn’t mean to.”

“Your scent does it. I have been catching whiffs of it for weeks, but could never find the female it could be traced to. I don’t seduce my staff either, so that has presented a problem until I looked through the palace files to find out that you are not actually my staff.”

She tried to play innocent. “What do you mean? I am a good worker, really I am.”

“And yet, you don’t exist and certainly don’t draw a salary. In fact, you appeared on the palace rosters less than an hour after a certain Lanar princess disappeared from under her guards.”

Onari raised one eyebrow, “Coincidence?”

“You are the missing princess.”

“I am not really missing. I know where I am. More like, the runaway princess.” She let a little more of her personality show in her eyes. His silver orbs widened and a grudging respect came into his gaze.

“Why the early winter?”

“Medication.”

“What?”

“I was on medication and froze my season, so the season froze. I am not sure how it works, but that is what happened.”

“What was the medication for?”

“To hold back my heat. It is why Mekar is so frantic to find me. He wants to breed me until there are dozens of babies in the royal family.”

“Certainly he would allow you time to rest between infants.”

She threw her head back and laughed. “There would be no infants. No babies, not for me. Just endless pregnancies and having the children removed and implanted in surrogates.”

His expression grew dark. “What do you mean?”

She let anger show on her face. “I mean that Mekar will come to me every time I am in heat, he will fuck me until I am with child and I will go to a doctor the next day who will remove the embryo and give it to another woman. And then it will happen again. And because I won’t carry a child to term, I will go into heat every freaking month. That will be my life.”

King Iro sat back in his chair. “What can I do to help?”

“Find me a place to hide. My body betrays me here. I will be sending out enough come-and-get-me pheromones to summon half your guard in a few days.

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