Awakened by Magic (The Four Kings Book 1) by Katy Haye

Author:Katy Haye [Haye, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, young adult, YA, teen, Fiction, low fantasy, reverse harem, first love, royalty, fall in love, Romance, adventure
Publisher: Plumshine Books
Published: 2018-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The water was so cold my skin numbed immediately, the breath in my lungs constricting so I had to fight the instinct to turn back to safety, to surge out of the frigid water to the secure shore.

My head broke the surface and I trod water until the need to escape eased. The water was cold, colder than it should be in summer, but I’d dealt with worse. Essa and I had half-frozen when we were on the run, huddling together in ditches overnight, bodies pressed close to hoard what little warmth we had.

This was easy by comparison. My shivering body settled, becoming one with the cold, a part of the lake. I looked up at the citadel, and then I pushed off, swimming as strongly as I could towards my sister.

I struck out towards the grey edifice in the middle of the lake. The water was cool, but swimming would keep me warm. I glanced up at the forbidding walls, trying to see whether there were guards posted at the top. I didn’t want to be spotted breaking into the citadel or shot from the ramparts before I even arrived.

Fortunately, nothing moved. If I hadn’t just seen Essa and the guards go inside I could believe the entire place were deserted.

The shore soon slipped away, but the citadel remained a long way away. The lake was vast, more so than it had seemed when I’d dived in.

“Can you go any quicker?” Rey asked.

I coughed. “Hardly.” I glanced back since I could see nothing amiss at the citadel. “Is there a problem?”

“I, er, I don’t think you’re the only thing in the lake.” Rey’s words barely had time to alarm me before a ripple stirred the water ahead of me. I came to an abrupt stop, watching as the ripple became an eddy. A dark, serpentine body broke the surface and I gulped, watching as the dark, shining loop slipped through the water.

“Get to land,” Vashri urged.

That was easy for him to say. I trod water, trying to assess where the creature was as its body slipped back below the surface. The problem was, I didn’t know how large it was. Nor where its head might be.

Then, I didn’t want to know.

A huge head lifted out of the water a couple of arm-spans away from me. Water flooded down its massive neck, dripping off the jagged teeth that had caught my terrified attention. It wasn’t big enough to swallow me whole, but I was sure it could relieve me of a limb or two with one bit of those jaws.

I ducked down as it turned a vast, unblinking eye on me. I gulped. Too late to dive. Its blade-sharp teeth clacked together, and it surged through the water towards me.

Its jaws opened wide enough to snap my head from my neck. Panic surged through me. It was moving towards me faster than I could get out of its way. The creature was perfectly created to move under water. Two rows of sharp teeth gleamed, water dripping from them.

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