19 Results in the "Designated Love Interest" category
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The armored figure stepped fully into the light and the massive macesparked on the stone floor. Up close, the crimson armor seemed to pulse with a heartbeat of its own, as if it had not been forged but grown from coagulated blood. "The Princess and-" The voice sounded almost bored, but beneath it lurked something unsteady, almost crazy, like a string that had been stretched too tight. "Aah, how interesting. The Hero. Both already in one place." "Ha! He knows me!" Benderast grinned broadly. "Seems…-
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Chapter 14 – The Long Road Home
The first thing Shaelith noticed was the unfamiliar smell. No sweet mushroom scent, no phosphorescent spores, but pine scent and damp forest soil instead. A rough blanket scratched against her skin. Right. Still not home. She tried to sit up and that proved to be a mistake. The world tilted to one side, and her stomach immediately rebelled.Mana exhaustion. The aftereffects were almost worse than a proper moss wine hangover. They had set up a makeshift camp.The rescued women huddled together in small…-
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Laenre sat on her chair made of woven mycelium, making notes on supply listswith an inscrutable expression. "Mother, you can't be serious." Shaelith stood in front of the polished obsidian desk and had her hands clenched into fists. "Vyriz is chained up at that warlock's fortress, losing fingers as we speak, while I'm supposed to enter into a concubine contract with some idiot?" Laenre looked up from a document and fixed her cool amethyst eyes on Shaelith. "De facto, you have already entered into it…
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Chapter 19 – No Means No
Shaelith turned and saw Benderast approaching. He smelled of moss wine and his gait was slightly unsteady, but those familiar eyes she knew from another life were shining with anticipation. "So," he said, his voice taking on a tone he probably thought was seductive. "Finally alone." Oh no. He ran his fingers through his curly shoulder-length hair, which might have looked charming on another man, but on Ben it seemed terribly rehearsed, as if he had copied the gesture from a bad soap opera. "You look…-
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Chapter 11 – Caged
Shaelith didn't know how long they had marched them, stumbling, until they arrived at the goblin lair. It felt like days. The world seemed to consist of nothing but musty darkness and the stench of unwashed goblin bodies. Shaelith stumbled forward, blind beneath the stinking sack, her bare feet slipping over damp ground.The background noise around her was overwhelming, hundreds of goblin voices screeching, laughing, arguing with each other. Somewhere, meat sizzled over an open fire, the smell mingling…-
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"If you don't take your arm off me right now," she hissed quietly enough so as not to wake the sleeping women around her, "you won't have it for much longer." Benderast froze. "I just thought-" "You thought? Is that so?" Shaelith turned her head just enough to give him a withering look. Her lavender eyes shimmered dangerously in the dim firelight. "I doubt it. What were you thinking? That it was a good idea toget it on with me in between a dozen traumatized women who have just been rescued from a goblin…
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Chapter 16 – Supply and Demand
Shaelith stood in the guest quarters and looked at the motley crew standing before her with exactly the same feeling she always had when she sent one of the problem students off to take the Sorceress exam. If you were unlucky, you were seeing them for the last time. "So, once again," she said in Tulvian, her arms crossed in front of her chest. "You only speak when you are directly addressed. You don't stare at anyone, especially not the Matriarchs. You don't make demands, you don't issue challenges, and…-
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Chapter 17 – The Impossible Bid
"I want her." For three heartbeats, there was absolute silence. The kind of silence that occurs when an entire room full of people tries to comprehend whether they just heard correctly, the kind of silence that screamed, "Did he really just say that?" Surprisingly, it was Xarini Rynalazel who broke the silence. She was, of course, no friend of House Vyrnara, let alone Shaelith herself, but like most Shaeravyn, she had very definite ideas about the superiority of the Shaeravyn over other races, especially…-
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Chapter 12 – The Hero
That's Ben, I swear to God. It's definitely Ben. But how? Since when is he- Shaelith forced her racing thoughts to a halt. The grotesque absurdity of Ben Blomquist, standing in front of herlike some hunk from one of his Isekai animes,had to wait. Getting out of this mess had priority. Later. I can think later about why Big Ben Blumpkin now looks like the cover boy of a bodybuilding magazine. She made the decision in a split second. Whatever had brought him here, however this fucked-up situation…-
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