Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian fae romance, Oak King Holly King!~Two combatants remained on th

Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian fae romance, Oak King Holly King!~Two combatants remained on their feet, their sword hilts locked together in a contest of brute strength, their snarling faces inches apart.Shrike, who had slain several of the corpses on the field, stared unblinking into the mercurial eyes of his opponent. These eyes belonged to a knight whom the court considered quite beautiful, and it was said those eyes altered their colour with his moods. To Shrike, they had appeared gleaming green when the battle commenced. Now they’d faded to an icy blue and paled with every passing second. The knight’s lips had taken on a blue tinge as well, twisted in a lupine snarl to reveal doubled canines as sharp as his longsword. The blood-slicked blade crossed against Shrike’s own to form a shining scarlet X between their close-pressed chests. The well-honed edges—Shrike’s with more nicks and notches—scraped against the ringed mail beneath the knight’s tabard and scored the leather armour over Shrike’s tunic.“Yield!” the knight hissed between clenched teeth.Some scant moments before, an errant shield-bash had split Shrike’s lip open. Shrike had cut down the shield’s wielder, who now lay groaning into the dirt a stone’s throw away. Still, Shrike’s lip bled. He licked the blood from his chin now and darted his head forward between the crossed blades to crush the knight’s mouth beneath his kiss.The knight jerked his head back—or attempted to, at least, before Shrike bit his tongue.And in that instant of shock and outrage, Shrike sank his dagger into the hollow beneath the knight’s flailing left arm.~Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!Amazon • Apple Books • Barnes & Noble • Bookshop.org • Kobo • Overdrive • Smashwords -- source link

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