“Worth a try.”
“Is anything ever not ‘worth a try’ with you?” He glowered down at me. “Everything you try, fails.”
That face that can make grown men cower.
I, however, refused to. “That’s not true. I regularly get away from i***t captors.”
My meaning was not lost on his as his face darkened. His mouth going tight.
Oh...I know that look.
It never means anything good.
And it certainly didn’t now. Still holding my arm, he whistled through the trees. Clearly sussing out that I had no intention of answering him.
Ever.
“What are you doing!” I caught his armor coated arm. “Are you trying to alert all Kareni’s men that we’re here?”
“Ohh, Baby Girl, they’re never going to get here before my men do.”
He wasn’t wrong.
It was under a minute before I saw shining gold armor topping
