Bear Risen (Alpha Guardians Book 5) by Vivian Wood

Author:Vivian Wood [Wood, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vivian Veritas Publishing
Published: 2015-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“And that about summarizes my abilities, to my knowledge,” Alice finished as she followed Aeric around a corner in a musty, dark series of hallways. Aeric glanced at her, amused at the way she doggedly kept up with him despite her three inch heels. His mate was equal parts pretty and determined, it seemed.

“Well, to be fair,” he said, swinging his flashlight back and forth when he came to a fork in the hallway. “You can literally sing someone to death, which is frightening. Everything you listed after that sort of pales in comparison.”

“Ah, yeah,” Alice said, frowning as she toed aside a clump of frayed carpet. They were somewhere deep in the bowels of a blood brothel, in a bolt-hole stashed in the Gray Market. It wasn’t a particularly impressive date, as they went, but Alice seemed unperturbed.

“Luckily, you mated a dragon, and we’re not scared of much,” he teased, bringing her smile back. Ah, so she had been feeling a little insecure for a moment. Alice was infinitely complex, and endlessly interesting to him. To the detriment of their ever finding the damned vampire’s crypt, unfortunately.

“Hey,” Alice said, pointing down the hallway to the right. “Does that door look funny to you?”

“Funny like it’s lined with steel, yes. Good eye there,” Aeric said, reaching up and pulling a single katana from his back. “This is it, all right. Stand well back, if you will. This is going to get a bit fiery.”

Rather than kick down a steel door, Aeric focused inward and summoned his dragon. He shifted his lips and nose, the inside of his mouth, his throat, and his lungs to the protective scales of the dragon. Most importantly, he brought forth the second stomach that allowed the dragon to breathe fire. In a few moments’ work, he produced a plume of metal-melting fire from his lips in a short growl, burning up a vampire that stood guard just inside the door at the same time.

Releasing the shift and shaking off the dragon, Aeric brandished his sword and stepped into the room. Two more bloodsuckers stood inside the room, looking terrified.

“Alice! Come on,” he urged her. When she scurried in behind him, giving a wicked little smile at the smoking remains of the door, Aeric motioned to the two henchmen. “Run along, unless you want to go the same way as your friend there.”

The smoldering spot where the first guard went up in flames was enough to convince them, apparently, because both guards fled without another word.

“Wow,” Alice said as she turned to the centerpiece of the room, a massive coffin of made of bright gold. It was beautiful, but not terribly practical. One corner of it had already begun to soften just from Aeric’s little entrance. “You’d think he’d have a fire-safe coffin, wouldn’t you?”

“My thoughts exactly,” Aeric said, shaking his head. “But this just makes it easier for us.”

With another moment’s concentration, he covered both his hands with scales of gold every bit as brilliant as the coffin.

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