"My orc loves," I say, cupping their cheeks and kissing their lips."This is my home now.You are my home.Nothing will keep me away.I mean, I might get lost..."
Oops, wrong thing to say, as they return to a collective hell no.
"I'm kidding.I might have been the girl who tried to exorcise you with lavender, but I'm an orc bride now.I'm cool now," I smile, then turn serious.
"You're not going to get rid of me so easily, unfortunately.Let me do this.I know I can.Please."
They remain silent for so long, communicating privately with one another without words, that I want to remind them of the conversation we're having right now.
"If you do not return to us, we will step through that portal and raze the earth to find you."
"You'll be dead if you take one step out of the portal..."
More growls.These orcs have had it with me.
"I love you forever, and I want to be with you forever, here in Kraukug, and I want Kraukug to prosper, for our children to be happy, fed, and protected.Freeing the other bloodlords is the only way.
"But know this: nothing will keep me from returning...unless I die, which would kind of defeat the whole purpose—"
They silence me with kisses so deep and desperate that my heart beats through theirs.
I may have omitted that I'm on a mafia hit list back on Erthry—can't have my orcs going crazy on the world—but there's no way I'm going to be caught.My orc husbands have put me through a grueling combat schedule.
I'm a fighting machine now.No way am I getting offed, which is a good thing, considering I'm heading right into the danger zone.Literally.
This better work, or I'm going to be in very big trouble with my orcs.
Chapter One
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Francesca
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Given who my parentsare—heads of a mafia unit, no less—they're exceptionally good at blackmailing, even their own daughter.This explains the over-the-top, ridiculously extravagant birthday party.Mine, to be exact.
