Part 9



"I would rather fight with you than kiss someone else."

-Anonymous

Devika tried to shrug away from his grasp when Chandra told her to step up the paddle and onto the back of the stallion.

"I want to go back! "

"I can't believe this! "Chandra gave her a hard look but not for long because the troops to Maniteek were getting closer.

"For a woman who can try to burn her husband alive and can tear his muscles in tatters with her bare nails, you are a very weak woman, very....very weak."he tusked with an expression so grim on his face that Devika was forced to believe that he pitied her.

She forgot why why she was fighting.

Loosing herself in those stormy eyes that held nothing but sympathy for her, in those same eyes she tried to find the moto of her life? The reason of her living.

'Was there any at all?'

And in that point of weakness the will to fight was lost as well. In a daze of self pity and the burden of her father's words she felt herself being lifted and settled into the bac