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“I couldn’t do anything else but return to you, tiny mate.” Tipping my chin up, he gave me a quick kiss and a grin. “You’ve done it, love. You’ve gifted our people with a chance to live.”
As he kissed me, I drank in the ongoing cheers of our friends.
When I took my sister’s place in the Monster Mate Hunt, I never dreamed I’d find happiness or love.
Now, I’d found it with these people.
And with the love of my precious mate, Jaus.
Chapter42
Jaus
Two Months Later
We rode on Feyla as she flew above the forest. We’d left the city yesterday evening, traveling all night, then spending the day in the meadow where we’d stayed after I claimed my lovely mate during the Hunt, then continued traveling in the early evening. We had a few hours left before the sun set and we’d need to start back.
As we approached the fortress, Rhoslyn’s hands shook.
I leaned over and kissed her temple. “Why are you frightened, tiny mate?”
“I’m more nervous than scared.” She sighed. “I’ve missed my sister so much. What if she’s forgotten about me?”
“How could she? You’re incredible. Amazing.”
She sent me a smile over her shoulder. “I love that you still adore me.”
I tightened my arms around her. “I feel the same.”
Leaning into my chest, she sighed again. “Lyneth must be married by now.”
“This is good, isn’t it?”
“It is. She could even be pregnant like me.”
I stroked her still flat belly, something I did whenever I could. While lying in our bed. Sitting in the tub (and while she rode my cock while I sat in the tub). And even when we sat at our table eating our meals. As she said, I adored her. And I couldn’t want to hold our orcling who’d be a bit of both of us. We believed she’d gotten pregnant our first time together.
“When I lived behind the walls, I thought that was the entire world,” she said.
“You said you went to the forest almost daily to collect herbs.”
“None of us go there at night.”
“Until the Hunt.”
“Especially during the Hunt.”
I chuckled. “You feared the mighty orcs.”
“How could we not? We can’t kill even a single shayde without losing three or four of our number, but orcs can take out three of them with one sweep of a mace.”
“Ican take out three of them with one sweep of my mace. Every other orc will need at least two blows.”
Her laugh snorted out, and her spine loosened, which was my intention with my joke. “There’s the orc I know and love.” She leaned back in my embrace. “My sister was my world until I had to leave her. Do you think she’ll be mad at me?”
“You bravely stepped into what you thought was a horrible situation in order to save her. How could she be angry about that? She loves you.”
“As much as I do her. We were all the other had after our parents died. I protected her always. Then I had to leave her, and they wouldn’t even let me say goodbye.”
