Snippet Saturday: You Want a Piece of This?

Snippet Saturday is the brainchild of author Lauren Dane, wherein a group of authors selects thematic excerpts from their work and shares them on Saturday mornings. This week the theme is the protagonist kicking butt, physically or metaphorically, I suppose. I don't tend to write a lot of fight scenes and fisticuffs. This short excerpt from Survival of the Fairest takes place in the middle of a crowded casino where the hero (Jake) has asked some friends of his (Venus et al) for help getting away from one of the antagonists (Embor, the fairy Realm's leader) and his underlings. Needless to say the casino (palace) guards aren't pleased.

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“You too, buddy.” The guard loosened his shoulders as if expecting a fight.

Nothing happened for a few tense seconds. Embor nodded. Then, chaos.

The tree-sized fairy grabbed Jake’s shoulder while the female tried to shove her way into the circle to get Tali. Venus threw herself on the back of the fairy menacing Jake and let out an earsplitting screech. More palace guards protested and moved in.

Embor tried to muscle his way between the blonde woman and a redhead, but they wrapped their arms around his body.

“Hello, gorgeous!” said the redhead in a throaty voice. “Where’ve you been all my life?”

Tali didn’t have a chance to enjoy the sight of the shocked and priggish Elder in their embrace. Two other ladies grabbed her arms and headed toward the back of the casino. No black-clad fairies marred her path.

Son of a sevensie, was she going to get away? But what about Jake?

Tali heard the smack of flesh against flesh followed by a masculine grunt and a thud. A glance over her shoulder revealed Jake sprawled on the floor, rubbing his jaw. Venus still clung to the huge fairy’s back, but he didn’t appear to care. Several guards grasped him by the arms and tried to pull Venus off him.

“Jake!” she cried out.

“Talista, do not accompany those persons.” Embor whipped out his communication device, but the blonde lady snatched it from him and dropped it down her capacious bosoms.

“Give that back.” Embor shrugged off one arm only to have another wrap around him from the other side. A hand rumpled his hair.

“Search me, baby,” she said. “I think you’ll be really surprised at what you find.”

Even as she strained to watch, Tali’s escorts zipped her around a block of machines and she couldn’t see or hear any more.

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For some butt kicking that's probably a lot more violent and decriptive than anything I write, you can visit:

Jaci Burton Elisabeth Naughton Ashley Ladd Moira Rogers Taige Crenshaw Lauren Dane Victoria Janssen Vivian Arend TJ Michaels Juliana Stone Lacey Savage Eliza Gayle Sasha White Shelli Stevens Shelley Munro