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The Heartstone Saga
Book 5: Light of the Aegis
By
Archibald Bradford
Copyright Β© 2020
Cover Art by Erik Von Lehmann
http://erikvonlehmann.deviantart.com/
Introduction
Nameless and his bond-mates are making a new life for themselves in the city of Garland, but they canβt forget what brought them there, the final showdown is coming and once it arrives things will never be the same.
WARNING: This is a work of erotic fantasy, there is nudity, some swearing, a fair bit of violence, and plenty of naughty sex between men (and women) and monster girl/girls. If that isnβt your cup of tea please give this book a pass!
Otherwise please enjoy!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Table of Contents
Legal Notes
Prologue: Armstrong
Chapter 1: Incognito
Chapter 2: Sunrise
Chapter 3: Roll in the Hay
Chapter 4: Thunder and Light
Chapter 5: Trappings of Home
Chapter 6: Stolen Moments
Chapter 7: Reconnaissance
Chapter 8:Sneaking, Flirting, Killing
Chapter 9: Klael
Chapter 10: Dismembered
Chapter 11: Heated Emotions
Chapter 12: Hope:Hope
Chapter 13: Invitations
Chapter 14: Hearty Parties
Chapter 15: Duty and a Weirdo
Chapter 16: Telling Tales
Chapter 17: Moonlit Bonds
Chapter 18: Reunions and Reconciliations
Chapter 19: At Auction
Chapter 20: Longinus
Chapter 21: In the Dark
Chapter 22: History Repeats
Chapter 23: Fallen Monarch
Chapter 24: That Which Sustains
Chapter 25: The Baking Queen
Chapter 26: This is Me Flirting
Chapter 27: Pierced
Chapter 28: A Secret is Born
Chapter 29: Royal Welcome
Chapter 30: Bunch of Goofs
Chapter 31: Home Sweet Home
Chapter 32: Feeling Blue
Chapter 33: Dressing Down
Chapter 34: Touching Off
Chapter 35: Exposed
Chapter 36: Run Bunny Run
Chapter 37: Stand Together
Chapter 38: Chaos, Above and Below
Chapter 39: Triage
Chapter 40: The Matriarch
Chapter 41: Tainted Pair
Chapter 42: Enduring Hope
Chapter 43: Grace and Creed
Chapter 44: Ham amidst Crisis
Chapter 45: Avalanche
Chapter 46: Full Circle
Chapter 47: Wily Witchβs Wiles
Chapter 48: Drowning
Chapter 49: The Folly of Yana Brael
Chapter 50: Reckoning
Chapter 51: Embracing the Light
Chapter 52: Titanic Threesome
Chapter 53: Despair
Chapter 54: The Ripple Effect
Chapter 55: Colonial Ambitions
Chapter 56: Beginning Again
Epilogue: Legend
About The Author
Other Books By The Lieutenant
Legal Notes
This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you want someone else to read it please purchase them a copy.
All of the characters in sexual situations are 18 years of age or older and any resemblance to persons living or dead is both coincidental and unintentional.
This one is for my patrons, thanks for having my back.
Prologue: Armstrong
Before he was a husband and a father, William Armstrong was a career criminal.
Heβd never hurt anyone who didnβt deserve it, and he never messed with monster girls. But he was still guilty of a litany of crimes.
Assault, robbery, fraudulent representation, extortion, the list went on.
If there was an angle to be found, he was the one looking for it.
In his youth he and his parents had a falling out, mostly over the kinds of people he was spending his time with and the activities they were getting up to together. He never did reconcile with them, which would later be his biggest regret in life.
He and his associates carried on like idiots for the better part of his twenties, pulling off a number of capers that would solidify their reputation in the criminal underworld.
Then he met a girl and everything changed.
Kendra Wilburn was unlike anyone he had ever known: she was joyous and kind, loving and selfless, and though she had a bit of a temper, it was rarely seen.
From the moment she first fractured his wrist for trying to steal her bag, Will was done. He bid farewell to his friends and βco-workersβ and got an honest job for honest pay, all in striving to become an honest man.
The only obstacle to his love?
A Troglodyte named Cass who also loved Kendra.
For good reason the lizard girl didnβt trust him, even when he and Kendra married two years after they first met she was still frosty towards him.
But Kendra was in love, and as her best friend Cass respected that, even if it wasnβt with her.
It took the lizard girl and the reformed criminal years to become something close to friends; it wasnβt until his son was born that she finally acknowledged that, as much of a rascal as he could be at times, he was a decent man.
Then Kendra was murdered, and they had to become more than friends to survive.
Even though she was still recovering from childbirth, the selfless mother had blocked the door and bought Cass and her husband the precious few seconds necessary for them to escape the burning house and the dark monster that ruined their lives.
Neither would ever forget her final words: a simple plea for them to save her baby.
After that night William became a criminal once more, stealing anything and everything he and Cass needed to keep his son warm and fed, healthy and safe.
Meanwhile the Troglodyte pushed a stud of iron through one of her ears and pledged a life-debt.
Neither to her deceased best friend nor the man who had loved her, but to the nameless infant, who had done nothing to earn it.
Her reasoning was that if he grew up to become an Empath like his mother was he could more than earn it then.
She was so smitten with her for a reason.
While on the run the unlikely pair worried for the child constantly, given how small he was. But time passed and he began to gain weight; becoming a healthy, if small, baby under their almost fanatical care.
And they never forgot the threat the dark monster posed to the boy.
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