(eng) Michael Anderle & Amy Hopkins - New Dawn 03 by Dawn of Deliverance

Author:Dawn of Deliverance [Deliverance, Dawn of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Danil yawned and stretched, immediately sending out his magic to see if a pair of eyes was nearby.

When he found not one pair, but two, he almost dove back under the covers.

Don’t even bother, I know you’re awake, Julianne sent. Hurry up and get dressed. Polly and I are about to join the theatre crew for breakfast.

“That’s not good,” Danil muttered. He reached for his clothes and pulled them over his head. “She sounds way, way too calm.”

He headed downstairs, almost tripping over his pants in his sleep-soaked daze. Polly immediately averted her eyes.

“Good morning,” she said into her mug.

“Um. Hi.” He looked at the two women, Polly trying to avoid his gaze, Julianne giving him a blank stare. “Am I… in trouble?” he asked tentatively.

One of Julianne’s eyebrows twitched. “Why would you ask that?”

“Because you’re looking at me like you want to cut my nuts off and feed them to a dog.” He was well and truly in the shit, he could tell. But was it his fling with Polly—unlikely—or his escapade last night?

He embraced his favorite coping mechanism, denial. It had to the be Polly thing, not helped by the girl’s silence.

Through his magic, he could see the hot steam rising from Polly’s cup and occasionally Julianne’s furious glare as Polly flicked frequent glances at her. Nothing else. Julianne had him blocked out of her mind tighter than a virgin in a chastity belt.

“Look,” he pleaded. “Is this about Polly? Because I swear, I wasn’t taking advantage of her. I really like her!”

“Danil, apart from your newfound devotion to Polly, is there anything else you feel the need to tell me?”

Oh, shit. She knows. She knows everything. Danil felt a drop of sweat inch down his neck. “What? Oh, that. See, someone snuck into the town and attacked Sharne and her mother. So… we took care of it.”

“You… took care of it.” Julianne stood, then gave him a bright smile. “Thank you, Danil, for looking after the town so pro-actively. I’m glad you made sure none of the townspeople or our guests were endangered.”

He balked at that. Her smile is too bright. She should be yelling at me for taking the girls. Hell, she should be yelling at me for not keeping an eye on Bastian, too.

Wondering what kind of torture awaited him, he slowly gathered his things. “So… should we go?”

“I can’t wait,” Julianne said. Her grin was genuine this time.

Polly stood. “I… just can’t,” she whimpered, voice choked. She ran out the door, hands over her face.

Alarmed, Danil went to go after her but Julianne pulled him back. “She’s fine, I promise. Come on.”

“I’ll take your word for it,” Danil muttered as he walked outside.

The small cottage he had taken over was right by the hall. At this time of morning, the streets were bustling, at least as much as a tiny farming town could bustle. Normally, the people of Tahn would rush about from job to job, used to the mystics that had come to live amongst them.

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