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Bride of the Beast Chapter Ninety Eight
HECTOR BAYESThe pump of the horse bucking under me was all the adrenaline I needed as I shot out the stone castle gates with half the royal army hot on my heels like a bat straight out of hell.“Faster soldiers! Taste their blood! Avenge your pound of flesh!” I screamed, pumping one raised claw in the air as the riot of soldiers chanting back echoed in the space between my ears.”For your wives! For your children!” I commanded, the image of Nola’s porcelain face rising unbidden under my eyelids and the soldiers heaved in response, howling as we breached the village center.I allowed a gasp to fall from my lips as the soldiers behind me jumped down to run to the horde of rogues that were tearing across the buildings almost faster than my eyes could follow.Who in the hell planned this attack? They must have been waiting for years! Centuries even! For me to find my mate, and strike when I was at my weakest!It was a mistake I knew not to make again.”Soldiers of the first formation! As
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NOLA REYNOLDSThe Lycan King leaving had opened a wound in my heart that stayed sore until the weight of his crown in my hands distracted me.“Come on, this way! Into the lower levels!” A red-faced guard who had opened the tin cage of his helmet was yelling so loudly beside me that I jolted.I turned to see that he was herding the crowd of sobbing residents in a neat line through the underground gates I hadn't noticed before, a different procession of somber-faced men with tightened jaws and the nettled garb of newly appointed infantry shining against their pale and coffee-colored skins.What the hell was going on? Were they recruiting new soldiers? Just how many of those lowlanders were crawling outside the reinforced gates of the castle?“Saints!” I gasped, jolting and slamming head-first into a woman’s ample bosom as I turned in the direction of the ear-splitting war cries in the distance that wrenched my heart from the cage of my ribs.The line of newly appointed soldiers scattere
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JAPHTAR I was going to see him soon, sooner than I had anticipated.I’d been watching the silver-eyed man for a while. Decades. Behind the film of the barrier that had been broken today. Watched as he fell in love with the fierce woman who was sitting pretty in his castle. MY castle.He didn't know it yet, my father, the dreaded Lycan King of the Highlands and Mountain City, but I had plans for his snow white. I swiped at the drool that was leaking from the corners of my bared lips, raking the oily sludge through my hair as my army shifted restlessly behind me.”Easy disciples,” I drawled, clucking my tongue thickly in my mouth as we pressed tighter against the walls of the castle, and I peered to where the Lycan was killing off more of my men, tossing them away like they didn't mean a single thing in the world to anyone.The way he'd tossed me away.I gritted my teeth, feeling my unusually long canines sink into the hollowed pits of my gum.It was almost time, but I needed it to be
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HECTOR BAYESIf I hadn't been seconds from closing the space between where my best friend lay pinned under the grinning wolf, I would not have believed the monster could move that quickly.It was uncanny, the teeth of my jaws snapping together as what looked to be thousands of the creatures swarmed in, falling over each other, some getting crushed in the angry stampede as they struggled to fit through the gates.“Holy mother of God!” I heard Gordon murmur as he pulled up on a horse beside me, before shifting into the beige fur of his wolf and charging at the werewolves who had begun to fall from the top of the stone fence, slashing his way through the front lines before I called him back, away from those things.They looked different, the wolves, hungry. But it was more than that. It was almost as though they had been reinforced, in a way that was even worse than what the Hybrids had been. Killing machines. They must have been climbing over each other to get to the top.“Soldiers Asse
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NOLA REYNOLDS“Don't make a single sound.” Layla’s hollowed voice rattled oddly in the spaces between the asphalt shingle roof of the cottage house where we were lying flat. Hidden.I gulped reflexively, willing my breathing to steady as a pack of gangly rogue werewolves sauntered past, their heads so close to the roof I was teary-eyed with the stench that oozed from their hides.“Sheesh!” Layla gasped after the coast had cleared as the rogues moved about the perimeter on their guard rotations.Sheesh was right! The size of those things! And the smell of rot and rusted metal that hung about them like a cloak. It was enough to send any sensible changeling running for the hills and not looking back. We had made the right call, sticking to the skylines, jumping from roof to roof, and scouting for survivors.”Help us! Down here! Somebody help us!” The harried voices of men and women of the mountain city rose from the chute before they were silenced to whispers as the barking of the rogu
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NOLAI pressed my hands to my temples as the munching and sucking noises grew louder under me, the shouts of battle still echoing faintly in the distance as I let my eyelids fall closed, the weight of exhaustion settling over me.I must have been crouched for hours, sobbing, sleeping, crying, only jerking awake when the noise of bloodthirsty werewolves killing more innocents in the open streets had me squeezing by eyes shut.Whatever happened here now, I couldn’t go back to the stone castle, It was already too late for that.I had to find a way to save the residents. I owed it to Lycan, to Layla, who had followed me out.She’d trusted me, and I’d let her down. I felt the rack of whimpers shake my shoulders so hard that my hands shook on the arrow as I released it from the quiver, pausing with the bow secured in my hand as I trailed the triangle of the sinewy wolf’s head.“This is for Layla bitch!” I spat, releasing the arrow with a whistle and watching it with bated breaths as it fork
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JaphtarI had flown toward the king like I was god’s vengeance to the stone city, the uneven jang of my heartbeat sputtering and stopping as I connected lightly with his cheek, my clenched claws brushing over the sinew of muscle I’d torn earlier before I reared back, annoyed.What was this? Freaking tag?“Playing games now are you? Aren't you too old for tricks daddy?” I spat acidly, dancing away from the silent beast who squared up with one hind foot testing the space between us.It was unnerving. The calmness that had taken over him the minute the moon came out. I had to act fast, faster than I had planned to.”There’s still time for you to turn back Japhtar.” My father’s calm warning came only seconds before he dashed toward me, swinging with lightning speed and I transferred my life source from the now-dead beating in my chest to my clenched fist, back-handing the Lycan who went flying into the rubble of his City’s stones.The only way I was leaving the mountain city, was to plant
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HECTOR BAYESJaphtar Bayes was in the wild, He’d fled. The bastard.It was lucky that he had when he did, the moon goddess had hidden her silver bulb behind the iron-grey mist that kept as the fight died down around and wearied-looking soldiers from the royal army speared off the rogues that lingered.“After them!” I roared, struggling to my feet as the cobblestones of the ground rose to my vision again before I came down hard, my hand shooting out to strike the pavement, the tremors going through me.I’d been halfway up and on his heels, the ache from the gash in my midriff stinging enough that tears rose in the pools of my eyelids before I yelled for the soldiers to follow him, my heart sinking with each second that passed when I noticed he had run toward the castle.Nola! I couldn't let him make it to the gates even! Not when the stone city castle held the remainder of the survivors that had managed to escape the gruesome war.I straightened with a large inhale, feeling my muscles
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HECTOR BAYESThe feeling of the dead man’s body as I writhed on top of him had not left my chest as we rode on horseback, into the gates of the mountain city.“Are you alright?” The green-eyed woman who had been watching me since we passed through the gates whispered, clumps of mud and twigs sticking out of her hair from where she’d brushed her face against mine.The porcelain of her high cheekbones was ashen with dust and grime, and the sight of the salt streak of tears dried and flaky sent a pang through my frame.I allowed myself a shallow breath, We had come a long way, the imp and me, and I was almost certain I couldn't have won the war if it weren't for her quick thinking with the sword.God-freaking dammit, Was I alright? I couldn't tell.The singed fur of my son’s corpse weighed heavy on my heart. Or It might have been the hole of my soul sword that refused to heal.I hadn't wanted to kill the boy, the monster, far from it. Saints! Lord knew Japhtar deserved worse for coming
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HECTOR BAYES“What did you just say?” I wheezed, my heart hammering wildly between the cages of my rib as heat rushed to my head and ears.“Y-your highness, I- they saw her, being carted away, over the north of the forest,” Gordon murmured in a mousey voice, and I felt my eyes grow until they were the size of fucking beach balls in my sockets.Japhtar had Nola? How did that happen? Saints! Why didn’t the imp ever listen to me? The irritation building inside me grew until it blotted out everything else as I clenched my fists until they shook lightly beside me.Taking my woman was the worst thing he could have done, and now, I was going to make him pay for it.“Assemble the royal troops, we're going to storm the outskirts.” I gritted, making a few of the werewolves present gasp as they cuddled around themselves before I strode out, Gordon running last me to assemble the troops before I got there and thoughts of the fair maiden swirling in my head.“Your highness?” Sarah whispered as I m
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HECTOR BAYESJaphtar Bayes was in the wild, He’d fled. The bastard.It was lucky that he had when he did, the moon goddess had hidden her silver bulb behind the iron-grey mist that kept as the fight died down around and wearied-looking soldiers from the royal army speared off the rogues that lingered.“After them!” I roared, struggling to my feet as the cobblestones of the ground rose to my vision again before I came down hard, my hand shooting out to strike the pavement, the tremors going through me.I’d been halfway up and on his heels, the ache from the gash in my midriff stinging enough that tears rose in the pools of my eyelids before I yelled for the soldiers to follow him, my heart sinking with each second that passed when I noticed he had run toward the castle.Nola! I couldn't let him make it to the gates even! Not when the stone city castle held the remainder of the survivors that had managed to escape the gruesome war.I straightened with a large inhale, feeling my muscles
