Her Orc King by Zoe Ashwood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Zoe Ashwood
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If you told me two weeks ago I’d be kidnapped, sold at auction, and dragged
to the orc territory deep in the forests of Bellhaven, I’d call you crazy and
distance myself posthaste.
But here I am. Trapped in a wagon, trussed up while two massive orc
guards sit on either side of me, their faces grim. I’m probably well on my
way to becoming a sex slave, and I need to find a way out of here. Now.
“I promise I won’t try to run again,” I plead, doing my best impression of
a meek damsel in distress. “Or stab you.”
The older of the two guards, the one with a deeply scarred face called
Ozork, scowls at me. “That’s what you said the last time.”
“And the time before that,” adds the younger orc, Neekar, grinning as if
receiving a stab wound in the thigh is something to be proud of.
They’ve been remarkably calm about my escape attempts. Ever since they
purchased me like a cow at the market in Ultrup, they’ve treated me kindly—
even though their idea of kindness was giving me an additional blanket to
wrap myself against the night cold as they forced me to sleep on the ground
by the campfire.
They’d ordered me to bathe in the first stream we’d come across after
leaving town, probably because I smelled horrendously bad after spending a
week in the slave barracks in Ultrup. But they hadn’t given me any privacy,
and I couldn’t wash properly in the freezing river swollen from the melting
snow. So now I’m dirty, still dressed in the simple wool gown I was wearing
when the band of slavers kidnapped me. I can’t even smell myself anymore,
so I think my odor must be terrible.
That hasn’t prevented the orcs in this party from sniffing me. Every
warrior has come close to me at some point and taken a deep whiff of my
hair, the skin on my wrists, my neck. I’d endured it all, petrified. I’d thought
they were smelling me to determine if I was tasty or something even more
nefarious, but all they’d done was grunt and move off again.
There’s no telling what these creatures have planned for me. I’ve heard
all the horrific tales about orcs and their lairs deep in the mountains. But I
won’t stop trying to escape. I’ll keep attempting different tactics until
something sticks.
“How long before we get there?” I ask instead of protesting again. I make
my voice whiny and trembling. If they think I’m weak, they might let their
guard down and allow me to escape.
“Not long,” is the curt reply I get.
I sit straighter. Up until this moment, every reply had been, “Stop
talking,” or “You’ll know when we get there.”
So we’re nearing our destination.
We passed through an orc village several miles ago, and one of the clothcovered wagons in our convoy stopped there—along with at least two of the
human passengers who had been bought at auction with me. There were four
of us—an elderly woman with silver hair, a middle-aged man, and a boy
perhaps twelve years old.
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