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Jaus
Icouldn’t wait much longer. My fellow orcs needed me to command, not just battle beside them.
Shrieks from dying dresalods echoed around us, but the scrapes of many claws on the outer walls told me a large legion had chosen this moment to attack the city. If we didn’t drive them back into the water, they’d scale the walls and overrun the streets.
They’d decimate everything and everyone in their path, like they did whenever they left the sea.
If they got past the wall, we’d have to track them one by one, and they’d kill many before we’d defeated them. They bred like ribbers. Even worse, they matured within a few months.
Dreading the sunlight, they used to only attack at night, but they’d become bold over the past year. Now they attacked both day and night.
Despite my need to leave, I kept Feyla hovering above Rhoslyn, the female I was bound to for the rest of my days. The mate chosen for me by the heart of my clan. The woman I could seduce and plant orclings in soon.
Fuck, did I desire her like no other.
She watched me with an expression I couldn’t read, her glorious hair swirling around her like strands of a golden banner. I wanted to mark her as mine. Icravedher.
My sigh leaked from my tight chest.
“What are dresalods?” Rhoslyn cried, backing toward the door.
Good. She needed to get inside. I needed to leave.
Still, I lingered. I couldn’t drag my gaze away.
“They attack. They kill,” I snarled. “Unless we eliminate them first.”
Her eyes widened with panic, and she whipped her gaze around as if the dresalods perched at the top of the wall, salivating as they leaped toward my home to attack her.
I shouldn’t have to explain myself to this tiny female who’d already proven she was anything but weak. I saw her strength in the tilt of her head. I felt it in the way she spoke, unafraid when confronted by a hardened orc commander.
The knowledge that she had a will as taut as mine was already embedded in my heart.
No,notmy heart. I would take her body willingly, but I would not love her.
“I need to go,” I growled.
Her shoulders dropped. “I’m sorry. I’ll go inside.” Clutching the bag she’d brought with her, she grappled with the door latch behind her, opening it. She stepped into the darkness.
Even now, I did not leave.
She gave me a curt nod. “Help the others. I’ll find my way around inside.”
Very well.
The hilt of my mace tight in my hand, I urged Feyla toward the sea and the ongoing battle. It was time to reduce the dresalod population if for only a brief time. Show them they were foolish to creep from the sea.
Rhoslyn called to me as Feyla swooped down toward a dresalod hefting itself up onto the top of the wall.
“Come back,” she cried.
Did she say this because she feared being alone in the orc city? She must.
The words didn’t express growing feelings.
Chapter10
Rhoslyn
