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Dara groaned as she awoke. The last thing she remembered was kicking Bruno's bloody head into the bushes. After that…nothing. Her memory slowly came back to her, while at the same time she became aware of her surroundings. Her head and face throbbed painfully as she slowly rolled and bounced, the motion causing her to feel slightly nauseous. Opening her eyes, all she saw was the side of a horse's neck and the edge of a well-oiled saddle. The pungent smell of horse and leather assaulted her senses, and she held back a retch.
Cool air wafted across her posterior, and in horror, she realized she was naked and bound face down over a saddle. A rough, calloused hand stroked one of her pert cheeks, and behind her she heard a deep, bass chuckle.
"Awake now, my sweet? I'm sorry I had to knock you out, but it made throwing you over my saddle and tying you up so much easier." The voice was rich and deep and educated, yet spoke with a lethal knife edge that warned her that this was a dangerous man.
The hand continued its soft stroking, and Dara gasped as he slid a couple fingers down between her legs. To her horror and chagrin, she was already sopping wet. Apparently he had been playing with her for quite some time before she had awakened. His light but demanding touch sent shivers cascading up and down her nude body.
"You are most responsive. Your body quivers at my touch, even while you are asleep. If you show this much promise while tied over my saddle, you should be quite the hot vixen in my bedroll tonight."
Dara groaned in resignation. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Although this fire seemed a bit more…intriguing…than Bruno or Olaf ever hoped to be.
Trying unsuccessfully to keep his deliciously probing fingers at the back of her mind, she craned her neck to try to see her captor's face. Dara pleaded, "Please sir, if you are any kind of gentleman, you will untie me and let me go," she went on, a plan hatching in her thoughts, "I am on my way with a message to Father Remarkus at High Reach, and must not be delayed any further."
At the words High Reach, the man stiffened, and the stroking hand stopped its damnable action.
Behind her, the words came out as a soft hiss, "What message to Father Remarkus?"
"That is between me, and the Father himself, and none of your concern, ruffian."
"Ruffian?" he chuckled, "I haven't been called a ruffian since I was eight years old and caught stealing sweetmeats from the kitchen staff…but that is a story for another day. Do you know Father Remarkus, young lady?" The hand once again began its soft, agonizingly pleasurable stroking.
"May I at least see the face of my
savior
" Dara asked, sarcastically accenting the last word.
"Tell you what. If you take an oath that you will not try to escape my evil clutches, I will untie you and allow you to ride sitting upright."
Dara paused. Oaths were terrible and mysterious, and oathbreakers often lived to rue their actions.
With a deep sigh, Dara whispered, "I swear on the grave of my mother that I will not attempt to escape. Now please, ruffian, untie me and let me sit up before I spew!"
With two deft slices of a sharp, glittering dagger, the man cut through the bonds holding her hands and feet. He then effortlessly lifted her up and spun her around so that she was sitting on the saddle facing him, her long naked legs straddling his muscular thighs.
Her eyes widened and she gasped as she gazed upon his face. He was ruggedly handsome in a roguish, careworn sort of way. His hair was black as night, and hung down across his forehead, with the back pulled into a short swordsman's tail. His deep set eyes were as black as his raven hair and burned into her soul. His face was lined and craggy and deeply tanned, his lips thin and cruel. His sharp, patrician nose was slightly crooked, as though it had been broken in the past and never set correctly. He had shaven recently, but was still scruffy, his strong jaw line dark with shadow. Over one eye a nasty, puckered scar sliced through an eyebrow, giving him a scowling demeanor.
He slowly looked her up and down, salaciously taking in her beautiful slim figure, pert, rosy-tipped breasts, long golden locks, and finally, her wet, moist pussy surrounded by a tuft of thick golden hair.
He was impossibly broad, clad in a black leather hauberk and leather studded shoulder braces. Looking down, Dara stifled a scream as she saw his breeches were unlaced, and his manhood stood tall and proud and impossibly stiff, and lustfully pointed at her wet loins.