Page 53 of Storm of Fury
“I was trying to make you move, you big idiot!”
Pulling a vial of something from her pocket, she bit into the wax that sealed the top and tore it free with her teeth, before dripping the inky liquid across her blade.
“What are you doing?”
“Leviathan blood. It’s poisonous todreki.”
And then she strode toward thedrekihurtling toward them.
The sight shocked him.
He’d been certain she’d walk away. Prepared, in fact, to defend himself without her. What he hadn’t expected was for Bryn to try to protecthim, and of all the things that stole his composure, this was the worst. He was the protector. He was the one who shielded others. Haakon was the only other person who had ever dared defend him, and Tormund found himself dangerously unnerved by her actions.
She stood alone, the sword held low as she bellowed into thedreki’sface, “Come and get me, you bitch!”
And then the sword lit up, flames licking along the bloodied blade.
Thedrekiscreamed in defiance, and Bryn set herself as the creature swooped….
Anotherdrekibugled to the east.
The black female above them banked sharply, hissing under her breath. And then she was swooping higher, angling directly toward the newcomer.
Bryn lowered the sword with a curse. “You cowardly creature!” she yelled, hammering her fist in the air. “Come back!”
“Are you mad?” he gasped, limping toward her and hauling her down from the rock she stood upon. “This is a good thing!”
Bryn shook him off, breathing hard. “Fuck.” Her hands shook as she lowered the sword, but the light of battle was in her eyes.
In the distance, lightning lashed through the air and two of the opposingdrekifell. An enormous black creature battled the others, slamming into one and sending it flapping in a desperate spiral toward the ground.
It was he who had challenged the queen.
“Yes!” Tormund punched the air. “There’s the Blackfrost.”
“Stealing my kill,” Bryn grumbled.
Tormund shook his head. “Thank you,” he said. “For protecting me.”
The rage died in her eyes, leaving them wide and startled and very green. “I wasn’t…. I was….”
He captured her mouth in a swift, furious kiss.
The sound of her gasp echoed through him, but two seconds later she was kissing him back. Hot. Hard. Furious. Her fist clenching in the collar of his shirt.
She tasted like honey, and every hard inch of her softened as he drove his tongue against hers.Fuck. Even the feel of her capitulation came with a challenge, for her hands were sliding down his chest, her nails raking over his abdomen.
And though he might be the aggressor, she bit his lower lip as if to prove she’d be no easy conquest.
Tormund drew back, breathing fiercely. Every inch of his hard cock demanded he finish this, but adrekibugled in the distance as if to remind them this wasn’t over yet. Of all the worst fucking timing….
“Later,” he said in a deep voice as Bryn gasped and slumped against his chest. “As much as I’d like to thank you properly, you may have to carry me up that hill. We’ve got adrekiprincess to find.”
And then, he was going to finish what they’d started.
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The storm whirled,batteringdrekiout of the skies.
