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“Andros wouldn’t renege on his promise,” she said staunchly, with full conviction. “He’s not that sort of male.”
“Then why would you be afraid he’d stop wanting you once he starts?” Ere rebutted.
Her mouth dropped open in wordless astonishment, as if he’d just told her the secret to immortality.
Well, okay.
That was the wrong analogy. She was already immortal. But, if she were human… Point being, Ere thought he saw a lightbulb flash in her frontal lobe.
“And…we’re here,” he announced, standing at the edge of the village, the outer wall of the fort at the base of the Pelion mountains within view, only a short distance away.
“Try not to piss off your centaur stud when we see him again, hmm?” he warned with narrowed eyes.
Divina looked down and away, her shoulders shrinking to her ears.
“We need his cooperation to retrieve the horn. And that’s only one of our tasks in this time and place. Try not to be a liability if you can’t be a help.”
“Erebu,” Sorin thundered in his quiet way, his deep voice resonating through Ere’s chest as if it lived within him.
“Enough.”
And now, Ere’s shoulders hunched around his ears as well, duly chastised.
But he wasn’t really sorry.
Divina looked like she could use someone who wasn’t blinded by her charm to talk some common sense into her for a change.
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There was a breath-held hush and anxious stillness blanketing the village surrounding the fort when Divina, Sorin and Ere arrived.
She was relieved to note that there were no guts, gore or blood strewn anywhere upon the dirt paths that she could see. If a battle had taken place, it wasn’t in the center of town.
Ere, with his easy charm, the ability to blend in anywhere he went despite his unique physicality, quickly learned that the centaur contingent had indeed arrived from the Pelion mountains, and that Andros was with them.
Divina’s heart pounded excitedly in her chest, battering against her breastbone. The organ seemed to have a life of its own, as if it were bounding toward its master the way Chewie bounded toward her with happy pants and lolling tongue.
Oh, she was insooomuch trouble.
“The centaur cavalry is stationed in large stables on the outskirts of town,” Ere related. “Apparently, the place was built specifically to accommodate them for when they come down every four years.”
Divina’s feet immediately shuffled to the right, in the direction where Ere indicated the centaurs would be.
But he pulled her back by the neckline of her tunic.
“Where are you going?”
“I just…I…”
She was still bumbling with her words. The mere thought of Andros made her synapses misfire.
“You can’t go charging into the stables alone,” Ere said, not unkindly, but he still wore a slight frown of irritation.
It was clear that the male didn’t like her much. In normal circumstances, Divina would have made it her mission to get him to like her. She loved challenges.
But, Ere would have to get in line.
She had much more important people—person—centaur—to win over. Though she wasn’t exactly certain yet what she was trying to win.
