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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Errok
Iclicked my tongues, urging Talga into faster flight. Zakkar had lent me his mount in place of Togo. After three days of hard travel, my braxilk needed rest. But Talga was fresh and ready for this flight.
The mountains sped below us in a raging, spiked wave as we hurled towards Gahn Thaleo’s mountain. Gahn Thaleo knew what an insult this would be. Taking new allies into his territory was one thing.
Taking another man’s, anotherGahn’smate, was entirely another.
My mind whirled darkly over the possibilities. Gahn Thaleo may have entered into this new alliance, but he was still my oldest and most dangerous enemy. Would he take out our years of bloodshed on my mate?
I hoped that he would have more honour than that.
He will die. If there is so much as a scratch anywhere on her tiny body, I will tear him apart.
I realized during the flight that I was only one man against Gahn Thaleo’s two dozen healthy warriors.
But it would not matter. Not where my mate was concerned. The mountains themselves could not hold me back from her, let alone the puny arrows of Gahn Thaleo’s army.
Talga was quick and responsive to my commands, and we made good progress over the night-drenched landscape. But still, it was not fast enough. Every beat of her wings was slow agony and every beat of my heart made me fear I was too late.
But finally,finally, we entered into Gahn Thaleo’s territory.
No guards or scouts spotted us. Not until we landed in the aguir circle before the main entrance to Gahn Thaleo’s mountain.
Warrek, Gahn Thaleo’s closest commander, along with three other men, charged out of hidden shadows, arrows nocked. I left my own bow strung across my chest, choosing instead to draw two long blades from my back. I slashed them savagely through the air.
“Where is she?” I snarled. My tail thwapped against the stone, the sound echoing across the open space.
It was not one of the four men circling me now who answered. But the putrid Gahn Thaleo himself.
“I assume you ask after your mate, Gahn Errok. She is safe and well taken care of.”
Gahn Thaleo’s sight stars flashed as he stepped out of the gloom and into the light of the bright stars and many moons.
“You have done wrong by me, and done wrong by the alliance,” I hissed.
“Have I?” Gahn Thaleo asked coolly. His hands remained folded behind his back, but I was not lulled into a false sense of security. He could shoot faster than any other man in his tribe. And we both knew it.
“You know you have,” I called across the aguir circle to him. “No worthy Gahn would let another care for his mate in his own place!”
