Status Updates From His Orc Charioteer Bride

YES! FUCK, YES! JUST LIKE THAT!

Oh, here we go...

Tazuk broke an orc oath and betrayed Eshka by agreeing to a race without a day’s rest… that slimey fiend…

I hope Liam, Eshka, Brow, and Braga survive…

🥹

Also, good to see this book acknowledge the sexiness of consent.

Ok, that was kind of hot.

What a cock tease...

Before: Strange how Liam thought Eshka talking to Tazuk led him to get jealous, and take up his own training to handle himself. Eshka and Tazuk could be having a totally different discussion for all we know. Maybe it's an unreliable narrator facet, and we'll know what they were really talking about later on.

After: Eshka snarled at Tazuk for taunting Liam, which was relieving. She's still for Liam.

Also, him getting jealous at her talking to Tazuk with interest, and getting Brow to train him instead, says enough about his true feelings to her, and his determination to not being a drag to her. In a way, it IS an ulterior motive on Eshka's part, but who knows why she's keeping him around other than some kind of protective instinct. We have our protag's motive now.

Eshka's an expert charioteer, and Liam is her driver in the tournament. She refused to race twice, so she was punished, I assume, by being paired with a human instead of Tazuk (another orc), tying into Liam's inferiority complex and Eshka's orc traditions.