The Minotaur's Tribute
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The Minotaur's Tribute
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Narrated by:
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Michael Katz
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By:
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Maven Ashcroft
The Minotaur's Tribute.
Some tributes are given. This one might choose to stay.
Every three years, the village sends someone into the dark. Everyone knows they don't come back. Kaes doesn't expect mercy when the gate shuts behind him. He expects horns, a landslide of a voice, and bones past the third turn. What he doesn't expect is restraint—a creature who paces him instead of hunting him, who holds himself together with visible, brutal effort every time fear gets too close. Ash has lived alone in the dark for longer than he can count, bound by a curse that turns terror into something he can't always control. Tributes don't survive three nights. He's stopped expecting any of them to try. But Kaes isn't like the others. He talks when he's terrified instead of going quiet. He reaches out instead of flinching back. And somewhere between the second night and the third, Ash starts to remember what it felt like to be more than the thing the curse made him.
The gate opens at dawn. Kaes doesn't have to walk through it.
A steamy MM monster romance short with a feral-but-tender minotaur hero, a curse that runs on fear, and a slow burn that ends in surrender—for listeners who like their monsters dangerous, devoted, and finally, finally gentle. For mature audiences only.
©2026 Maven Ashcroft (P)2026 Maven Ashcroft
