Broken by the Horde King (Horde Kings of Dakkar #4) - Zoey Draven Page 0,101
no loyalty to the horde, he would’ve already left for Dothik, though the Trials would not take place until after the frost.
“What about the horde?” he asked quietly. “With what is happening in the east…you are right, Kiran. I cannot leave now.”
“Leave after the frost,” I growled at him, making his shoulders go back. “Or I will banish you from the horde myself.”
A short huff left his nostrils as he stared at me across the table. I swallowed a curse and instead shook my head, giving him a half-smile.
“Don’t worry about the horde, my friend,” I told him. “The horde is my responsibility. You will learn that soon enough because I have no doubt in my mind that you will emerge from the Trials triumphant. I will find another pujerak. But you will never get this opportunity again. So take it.”
At my words, it seemed like a weight had been lifted from him. It had been heavy, no doubt. Torn between his duty and his future.
Errok inclined his head once. It was the answer I needed.
I looked down at the table, at the map of Dakkar. I would be sorry to see him gone. He’d been my friend and advisor since before the horde began.
“That’s settled then,” I said gruffly, straightening.
Then I turned, intending to return to my voliki, where I hoped Maeva would be.
“Kiran.”
I looked over my shoulder, brow raised.
“Kakkira vor,” he said quietly. “You’ve always been a good friend to me. I will never forget that.”
I inclined my head to him. He wouldn’t leave for another few months but I already knew it would come too soon.
“Get some rest, pujerak,” I rasped. “We have much to do tomorrow.”
“You too, Vorakkar,” he returned. “Don’t let your kalles keep you up all night, lysi?”
I barked out a laugh.
It might be the other way around, I thought, striding from the voliki and walking to the back of the quiet encampment. Anticipation rose in my chest, anticipation that had been building since the moment I’d left her early this morning.
I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off her. Not when she’d stoked the wild beast that lay within me, the beast that wanted to do wicked, wicked things to her, things I’d fantasized about for years.
When I reached the voliki, I stepped within, eagerly seeking her out.
When I saw her, I froze, a growl escaping my throat as my cock seemed to harden with lightning quickness. All the blood in my body seemed to rush down to my cock, leaving me dizzy as I straightened.
But vok, she was beautiful. And waiting for me.
Warm light drenched her as she sat on the edge of the bed, facing the entrance. She was alone, her piki already dismissed for the night. And she seemed to be anticipating my own arrival, looking at the flap of the domed voliki with expectation, her foot tapping on the rug beneath her bare toes.
When I met her gaze, I realized that we both knew what we wanted. Maeva knew what she wanted from me, dressed in a thin, short night dress that made my cock pulse in my trews. And I definitely knew what I wanted…though I wanted much, much more than she was willing to give.
Yet, I added. She would give me everything. I would demand nothing less. I’d show her that she craved it, that she still wanted me, that she still vokking loved me. She would be my Morakkari. She just didn’t know it yet.
And in return, I’d give her everything that I had inside me, laid out at her feet like I was making an offering to an altar of Kakkari.
My seffi deserved nothing less than to have her Vorakkar on his knees in front of her.
Vok, I’d beg if I had to.
Maeva was perched on the edge of the bed, her legs crossed. Her hair was in coiled ringlets down her back, tamed yet still wild. Beautiful. My pendant was still around her neck, along with her mother’s. And that dress…
I spied her nipples straining beneath it, free of her usual bandeau. The material was thin, so thin. If she stood in front of the fire, it would be near translucent. And I wanted to vokking rip it off her, my fists squeezing at my sides as I threw off the furs draped around my shoulders.
Those hazel eyes looked like mirrors as she stared at me across the voliki. Mirrors that traveled down my body as I uncovered it for her.