Author: myradanvers
“It’s the fight, isn’t it? The struggle. The idea that I’ll pin you down and take what I want…” He smiled, slow and dangerous. Watching me struggle to deny him. Watching me fail…Bound to a man I hate, I’m trapped.All that I was is gone. Taken. Stripped away, only to feed the beast who dares to call himself my equal, while having the gall to leave me helpless to his whims. Who offers … the gall to leave me helpless to his whims. Who offers protection in place of my Goddess-given power.Protection I didn’t need before him.Captain Asher Rawlings is a man apart. Relentless.…
“It hurts, doesn’t it?” he whispered, letting me strain to the limit of my bonds, maintaining the distance between us with a smirk. “Being so close to what you need, yet unable to take it. Five years I went without, Mila. But don’t worry,” he whispered, flicking a lock of sopping wet hair over my shoulder. “I won’t make you wait that long. No, you can have everything you want, right now…”It’s … now…”It’s been five years since I watched the Goddess burn, since I rejected my sacred-bloody-calling and turned instead to the limitless potential contained in the forest. It…
“We’ll never be done, you and I.” He pushed off her desk. Closed the distance between them with prowling steps, clenched fists, and oh, so much determination. “Too much unfinished business to ever call it over.” He stopped a few steps away from uncomfortably close. Braced his palm on the wall behind her head, forearm brushing the side of her throat. “‘Sides”—he licked his lips, glanced down her … lips, glanced down her shirt—“we never got our hate f**k, baby girl.”Iris knows he’ll come.He’ll come lookin’ for what she stole, what she refused to give up when everything went to hell.Won’t find…
“I can give you everything,” he whispered, smiling through the lie. All I had to do was kneel…The Caledonian forces come armed, yet offer peace. Spouting claims that they can deliver a new era—one of luxury and ease—they think to seduce. They promise our countries will thrive together, that they will save us from ourselves in exchange for Tritan’s secrets, our expertise in the mystical arts of … Tritan’s secrets, our expertise in the mystical arts of wielding ki. Partner with warmongers unaccustomed to being refused, or fall beneath their boots.These conquerors fool no one.They seek to leash my people and claim…