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Chapter 30. Angelina
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2024-10-29 19:42:56I felt incredibly well. A fresh breeze blew on my skin; and even cooled my over-heated head a little. Reive was sitting behind me, and I felt how he was almost hugging me. I felt his hands, chest and hips. I even felt his breath at times when the wind hushed and the horse seemed to walk on by itself. I didn’t turn round to check but, if I closed my eyes, I could imagine him lowering his head to my neck. I felt his lips pause just an inch from my shoulder.
Nonsense. Nevertheless, I wanted to believe it.
The afternoon had already passed, and the sun had begun to edge towards the horizon. Reive rode beyond the fortress wall, but not through the main gates. He chose quite a different way.
It seemed strange that, as an earl, he didn’t know the heraldry and genealogy of his family very well. It could partly be explained by having secluded himself somewhere in the depths of the country and by the peculiarities typical of any necromancer. However, something
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“Why cows? Though there’s nothing terrible about that.”“Don’t talk nonsense. Who needs healers?” Reive knit his brows, popping another grape into his mouth. “No power, no intellect, no imagination.”There was so much poison in his voice I straightaway wanted to argue with him. But I was watching his lips almost without looking away. I watched him bite on another berry and then lick his lips.Sweet lips that can kiss so hotly...Damn it.What was he saying?“Healers save people,” I muttered hesitantly. “And necromancers deal only with the undead.”Reive pursed his lips.“And what would a healer do if a hungry undead attacked his wife in the middle of the night? Or if a burglar ready to cut your throat for a piece of bread gets into your house? Or if...”“I got it, Reive,” I interrupted him, waving my hand. “But what abou
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He felt giddy. His muscles were aching like a wolf who’d been chasing prey half the night but still hadn’t caught any. His palms still felt the softness of the young girl’s skin, his body tensing and feeling a burning need to touch her again. To have her cuddle up against him. Hot. Shuddering from his conscious, careful movements.Reive wasn’t going to act hastily. He wasn’t going to lay her out on the grass and cruelly take her right away. That was no longer his plan. He wanted to… touch her.His hands moved by themselves. As soon as she came close, he quickly lost all control.He could explain why. He could understand the reason, but he couldn’t control himself.It was a good thing that Jeff Rinelon, the owner of the tailor shop, had arrived in the nick of time before the necromancer finally lost his head.Reive got to his feet, pulling the blushing girl along with him. Angelina was adjust
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It seemed like my heart was about to jump out of my chest from excitement. Then, it would leap along the road like a March hare.“We must give a present to his majesty, mustn’t we?” a dark grin appeared on the necromancer’s beautiful lips. “And this present will be an amazing horse ‘of a rare color, riding on which, a prince would not feel ashamed’,” Reive copied Jeff Rinelon’s words and intonations.“Errr... Reive, the horse will be dead,” I said with hesitation, looking at the dead body in the cart.“Little one, this will be its special appeal,” Reive answered with saturnine pleasure. “Okay. Enough talk.”The necromancer turned to me, and his face immediately became serious.“To read the invocation of the sixth level, you’ll need to keep a really strong thread of the Dark in your hands. A really weighty, tough and unyielding one. If you lose cont
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Yeah, he didn’t really expect it. The druidic magic was so deeply dormant in the girl that simply acting on the anarel didn’t awaken it. Reciting the invocation obviously exceeded the power of her energy source as well.Having forced Angelina to pronounce the sixth-level incantation, he had hoped her golden blood would prevent the girl dying from exhaustion. Her necromancer’s anarel was empty, and that meant the druidic anarel should have come into play at the crucial moment.Nevertheless, he was wrong. Angelina was about expire right in his arms. Her anarel would have burnt her out from the inside, turning her into either a madwoman or an undead. The necromancer had to apply his own energy which had only just begun to replenish itself.Reive clenched his jaws, staring ahead almost with indifference. He was irritated and furious that he wasn’t the person he used to be. A single move of his hand couldn’t now raise those hundreds of t
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“I’ll find somewhere to lay my head. Don’t worry, little one.”It seemed like the girl wanted to say something else but she remained silent. So much the better. As soon as he imagined her undressing, slowly taking off her clothes, laying on the bed... her naked body on the sheets glowing in the twilight, everything swam before his eyes.He left the guest mansion together with Zomzom as the sun finally disappeared below the horizon. That way there were fewer chances of the zombie attracting attention, and he didn’t have to bother about animals sensing the dead man.The necromancer had things to do in the city this day. Leaving the castle, he headed to the city outskirts, to where he had recently spotted the tall building of a local hospital.The old streets of the capital were as narrow as they had been seven hundred years ago. Nevertheless, the rest had changed incredibly. The dirt and the sewage that had filled every gully i
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As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw his face with its strong jawline and full sensual lips curving so ironically. The mocking dark eyes in which some mystery was concealed.I couldn’t get Reive out of my head. His words were printed in my memory, “So which one? The black or the white one? Death or life? Choose, necromancer-to-be...”He had only asked me to choose a horse. But, for some reason, these words had another meaning for me. As if he was offering me something bigger.I made my choice.The soft sheets were cooling my back. I tossed and turned until I settled on my side, trying to fall asleep. Tomorrow would be a difficult day. I would meet my father and my mother. If the king evoked nothing but irritation in me, my mother...I wanted to see her. Somewhere deep down in my soul, I still hoped that she had been following my fate. That she’d knew how I was growing up and what was happening to me.However, that could
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Angelina smiled confusedly but didn’t let him distract her, “You must stop this battle. Right now. You started it, so you stop it.”Reive pursed his lips, thoughtfully rubbing his chin with one hand while continuing to hold Angelina’s wrist with the other, “Hmm... The battle’s already started. The Council is continuing its attack despite the throne guardian’s death,” he was deliberating. “I suppose either they don’t know that, or someone else is acting as supreme commander. But...” he made a short pause and then smiled and winked at the girl. “But I have a plan.”He clicked his fingers and the canopy of the Dark above them dispersed like mist.“Your Dark Majesty, it’s dangerous,” broke in Glein, standing at a respectful distance from Reive all this time. “The arrows, the magic, the flying beasts. We may not reach the walls of the fortress.”He looke
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