Asher (Dragon Guard Berserkers Book 2) by Julia Mills

Author:Julia Mills [Mills, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-26T18:30:00+00:00

ASHER

Chapter Ten

Every step took him farther from sanity, farther into the darkness, farther from Willa. Was it easier to succumb to the chaos? Easier to fall into the abyss of the Madness? Leave behind the forgotten feelings of loyalty, dedication…love, and simply let the hate and vengeance fester and flame? Let the Solveig embrace the Berserker, avenge the life that was stolen from them until there was nothing left but cinder and ash?

One foot in front of the other, his feet grew heavier with every flash of Willa’s beautiful face in his mind. Long, dark, silken curls cascading over the gentle curve of her porcelain shoulders, the way her nose so cutely crinkled when she smiled and her laughter like the tinkle of fairy bells dancing on a spring breeze soothed the festering malignance inside of him.

She had a light in her deep brown eyes that called to the darkness of his soul. Just being near her awakened the hope he’d abandoned so very long ago, and made him wish for an eternity by her side. Willa was strong and independent, her mind sharp and her determination making him believe he might actually become more than a psychotic prisoner trapped within a nightmare thrust upon him by his own flesh and blood.

Taranis!

The bastard had been sure to visit Asher at least once a month, telling him how long he’d been a prisoner, that he would die within the confines of the Red Castle encampment, that he was a failure and in the end, would turn on his own kind also. Three-hundred-and-two years almost to the day that Asher had proven his brother wrong, killed all in his path and escaped the wretched hole in the ground.

Wounded, wearing the clothes of a man he’d just ripped apart with his bare hands, Asher spent days huddled in caves, abandoned burrows and makeshift huts hiding. Tracked by hundreds of soldiers, doped with a serum Taranis had created from the stem cells of a vast array of Shifters, each man had orders to bring Asher back…dead or alive. Separated from Solveig, he embraced the magic inherited from his mother, Brynhildr, Shieldmaiden and Valkyrie with the power of fire and sword.

Tired of running, unwilling to hide any longer, Asher took his stand atop the highest cliff within the Watkin’s Range of Greenland. Waiting for nearly ninety-six hours, the continuous daylight and the bitter cold, feeding the Madness as it cannibalized his sanity with slow, agonizing deliberation. There was no doubt that even if his body survived the coming fight, his mind would never be the same.

Continuing to reach for the Dragon King with whom he shared his soul, refusing to believe that Solveig had been banished, Asher burst through the thick, metaphysical containment Taranis had placed between man and beast. Searching for the great Ruler of the Ruby Dragons, lost in the smut and pollution of his brother’s tainted mysticism, the farther he traveled the more of his lucidity he forfeited.

Long hours later, his mind no more than a bottomless abyss of wrath and fury, Asher finally found the seething, raging Solveig.

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