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The females here left him cold, which confounded him-since he needed a woman beneath him so badly His eyes must have darkened, because the nymph quickly backed away About to lose ered at one of her kind for touching hiht

of a bone

Lately, Rydstro to rage The fallen king known for his coolheaded reason, for his patience with others, felt like a bo an inexplicable anticipa-tion-a sense of building, a sense that soency had no discernible source or alleviation, frustration welled in hih

For the last couple of weeks, he'd awakened to find hiainst the pillow or the mattress or even into his own fist, desperate for a soft fe frustration he felt Gods, I need a woman

Yet he had no ti within hi's

So ht to reclaim his crown-from Omort the Deathless, a foe who could never be killed

Rydstrom had once faced him and knew from bit-ter experience that the sorcerer was undestroyable Though he'd beheaded Omort, it was Rydstrom who'd barely escaped their confrontation nine hundred years before

Now Rydstrom searched for a way to truly kill O of edly tracked down one lead after another

The eht-a seven-foot-tall pus deerth-would be able to help them

He'd been sent by a sorcerer naist, Omort's half brother, a man anted Omort dead almost as much as Rydstrom did Groot was little better than Omort, but an enemy of my enemy

Just then, a demoness dressed in black leather with cheaplook as she passed, but he turned away

He wascurious about wicked females, always had been, but they weren't his type-no matter what Cadeon occasionally threw in his face when they fought

No, Rydstrom wanted his queen, his own fated ferace his bed

For a de compared to the randoh to experience the difference

He exhaled But noas not the time for her So much at stake He knew that if he didn't defeat his enedom and his castle would be forever lost

My ho into his palms Omort and his followers had desecrated Castle Tornin The sorcerer had set hi the corpses, the dead raised to life, who could only be destroyed once their ies, sacrifices, and incest in Tornin's once-hallowed halls were legion

Rydstros so depraved, so warped he considered thes ever to walk the earth