Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian fae romance, Oak King Holly King – available now wherever fine books are found!
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The terrible impact rang out across the field like a thunderbolt cleaving a tree in twain.
Wren’s hands flew to his mouth. The crowd leapt and cheered, surging in a bloodthirsty tide. The young man amidst the milkmaids let out a particularly gruesome guffaw. Wren didn’t dare breathe. It seemed the world had ceased turning the instant the blow fell.
The sword had struck Shrike in the side. The Holly King’s blade came away crimson. And the horrible noise, the crunch of metal against boiled leather and bone—
But Shrike rolled.
At first it seemed as though the force of the blow had thrown him aside, but as Wren watched him tumble, he realized Shrike had purposefully dodged. Not entirely, not quite fast enough for that, but dodged all the same, and when his feet came under him again he staggered upright.
And Wren’s hopes rose with him.
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Sebastian Nothwell 