LOGINPrincess Adrienne doesn't do gowns, politics, or obedience. She does swords, battle, and telling arrogant princes exactly where they can shove their heroics. So when the cocky bastard who "saved" her on the battlefield turns out to be Prince Orion—her betrothed—she's ready to murder him before she'll marry him. He's a legend. Undefeated. Insufferable. She's savage. Stubborn. And refuses to be any man's prize. Neither wants this marriage. Both have secrets. And when duty forces them together, the hatred burns almost as hot as the desire they're trying to ignore. In a game of crowns, the most dangerous move is falling for your enemy.
View MoreAdrienne woke up and did not know where she was.She lay still for a moment with her eyes on the ceiling, waiting for her head to catch up with the rest of her. It was slow to do it. There was a heaviness sitting behind her eyes that made everything feel slightly removed from itself, like she was thinking through water. The room around her was large and dim and she did not recognize the curtains or the furniture or the particular way the morning light was coming through the gap in the drapes and falling across the floor in one long pale strip.She turned her head and looked around properly and then everything caught up at once.Orion's room.She knew it without being told. The room had the same quality he did, large and unhurried and dark in its colors, nothing ornate, nothing that was there just to be looked at. The furniture was heavy dark wood and the curtains were deep green and everything was exactly where it was supposed to be without being arranged. She had never been inside th
"Get the healer here now!" Orion roared.He moved through the corridor with Adrienne in his arms and her blood was on his hands and his chest and he could feel her pulse when he adjusted his grip and it was there but barely, the kind of pulse that made something in his chest go very still and very cold.The male healer was already in his chambers when he got there. He took one look at Adrienne and moved toward the bed the moment Orion laid her down."My lord, I'll need to tear her clothes to get to the wound, the blade has…"Orion went still. "What did you say?"The healer blinked. "The wound, my lord, I need access to…""Get me a female healer." His voice didn't rise. "You are not going to touch her.""My lord." The healer's voice climbed with desperation. "She is barely breathing. If I don't treat this now…""And I said I want a female healer." If looks could kill, the healer would be six feet under, from the glare Orion gave him. "Do you need me to say it a third time?""Here!" The
The clash between Camelot and Valdoria was brutal.Hundreds of Camelot's knights hit Valdoria's force all at once and drove them back, pushing the fighting away from the villages, away from the streets where people were still running. The crowd that had been watching the duel was gone now. The field was just blood and steel and bodies.Orion moved through the middle of it. His sword came down on a Valdoria knight coming at his side and the man dropped and Orion was already turning to the next one. He kept moving, kept scanning the field, because the moment you stopped reading it was the moment it killed you.He found Adrienne.She had three men on her and she was handling them. She moved around the first one and her blade caught him across the back and she was already turning before he finished falling. The second one swung wide and she let it go past her and stepped in close and drove her elbow into his face and ran her sword through his side. The third came at her low and her boot c
King Matthias barely finished the word before Tobias was already moving.He came at her with everything he had, full weight, full speed, no warning, and his sword was aimed straight for her like he had already decided this was going to be over fast. Adrienne didn't back up. She came forward and her blade met his so hard the sound snapped across the whole field and the crowd didn't know whether to cheer or hold their breath.She matched him strike for strike.Every blow he threw she answered. He was bigger than her, taller than her, stronger than her, and he was using every bit of it, driving his weight behind each swing, trying to grind her down, trying to make her arms feel the difference between them. Adrienne kept moving, kept reading him, didn't give him a clean hit.The crowd found its voice. Loud and getting louder.King Matthias sat very still up in the royal seats and thought about Silvara for the first time since the gauntlet dropped in the hall. He thought about King Aldric.
Before Orion could respond, trumpets blared.The grand doors swung open with a boom that echoed through the hall."His Royal Majesty, King Odin of Valdoria, arrives!"King Odin walked in like he was entering his own castle.He was in his late sixties but moved like a man twenty years younger. Broad
Elara and Maren remained quiet, they looked everywhere except Adrienne."Where's my breakfast?" Adrienne asked, her voice flat. "It's already noon.""In the dining room, Your Highness." Maren's bow was so deep her forehead nearly touched her knees. "Scrambled eggs, asparagus, vegetables. No bread.
Orion's expression went darker.For the first time in his life, he was stunned. Genuinely stunned. Not by an enemy army. But by a woman. A tiny woman he just wanted to get rid of.She'd challenged him to a duel. In front of his knights. In his own training ground.And every man standing there knew
Prince Orion stood at the entrance to the training ground, His dark eyes swept across the scene, the circled knights, Greene's bleeding arm, and Adrienne standing in the center with a sword in her hand.His expression was thunderous.Greene immediately stepped away from Adrienne, lowering his sword


















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