Her Orc Protector by Zoe Ashwood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Zoe Ashwood
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- Genre: Paranormal Witches & Wizards Romance
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The rope tied around my wrists chafes my skin raw. I stumble in the ankledeep snow and barely catch myself from falling on my face. My captors curse
at me, urging me onward through the dusk.
“Watch where you’re going, witch,” Sal Olfen snaps at me.
I lift my head, bleary with exhaustion and fear. “I can’t feel my feet.”
His face pinches with something like worry, but he glances at the man
walking beside us, then faces resolutely forward.
“Barney,” I plead with the older man who has lived down the road from
my house all my life. “Come on, you don’t have to do this. Just let me go, I
promise I won’t tell anyone.”
“Shut up, Ivy,” he mutters, refusing to even look at me.
I force down the panic rising in my throat. I have a few minutes at most to
convince them to grant me my life. We left the village behind an hour ago—
or maybe more, it’s hard to say with the falling snow and every step so
agonizing. Of course, my feet stopped hurting some time ago, which is bad,
really bad.
But frostbite will be the least of my worries when they chop off my head.
I fall to my knees, half by design and half from fatigue. “Please, you two
aren’t killers. I know you drew the short straw, Sal. You don’t want to kill
me, do you?”
“I lost all my hair because of you.” He juts out his chin. “After you gave
me that potion.”
He yanks at the rope tied around my waist, and I cry out, feeling every
bruise on my ribs.
I force myself to stand again, though it costs me everything. “You lost
your hair because you got the mange, you idiot. If you actually washed
yourself with that potion and burned all your bedding, you’d be fine by now.”
I realize the moment the words leave my mouth that it’s the wrong thing
to say.
Sal tugs the rope, and I go flying. I barely catch myself on my bound
hands before I sprawl on the ground, the powdery snow puffing up around
me. My wrists scream in pain, and I can’t even rub them to chase away the
ache.
“We’ve come far enough,” Barney growls. “This will do.”
“Please,” I beg, trying to stumble to my feet. “I won’t ever return to the
village. You can tell everyone you did your job. No one will come looking
for me.”
The men don’t listen. As one, they grab me by my arms and haul me
through the snow. In my panic, I kick out and flail, and they’re forced to drop
me again.
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