Blood Bonds by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

BY THE TIME I got home it was near four. I had stopped for groceries and caved at the pizza counter in the store, ordering three large meat-eaters pizza. By the time I got home, it was pouring again and the parking space in front of the house looked like a massive mud puddle. At least we had had the driveway paved some time back, so there was no trouble getting into and out of the house.

I no sooner had opened the door, heavy bags in hand, than Shade was there, taking the groceries from me.

“I’ll run back and get the pizzas,” I said, dashing down the steps before he could say a word. When I returned, he was back at the front door.

“I need to talk to you now,” he said, gently maneuvering me over to the porch swing.

“Not you, too? Everybody seems to have something urgent to talk about today.” I laughed, but then stopped. Shade looked serious. So serious that I began to think that the day had a monopoly on bad news. “What’s happened?”

“We have company and I wanted to prepare you before you stumbled in on them.” He shook his head again as I started to speak. “Quickly—if I take too long they’ll be out to find out why. I told them I was going to help you bring in the food.”

“Who? Who’s here?” If Shade was nervous than our guests were worth caution.

He licked his lips and then, sitting beside me on the swing, said, “My sister, Lash is here.”

“I like Lash.” I wasn’t sure where the problem was. “Did your mother come, too? She’s a little intimidating, I admit.”

“Not my mother. Honey, my father’s sitting in our living room right now.”

His words dropped like lead. I stared at him.

“You’ve got to be kidding me! Your father? What the hell is he doing here?”

Shade’s father was full-blooded Stradolan, the only race who could interbreed with shadow dragons, but the children of such unions were sterile. And only Stradolan men could breed with shadow dragon females.

Shade’s father had effectively disowned his son for refusing to follow in his own footsteps. He was known as the Enforcer, and he punished wayward spirits in the Netherworld. Because Shade had taken a different route, his father had shunned him. So the fact that he was sitting in our living room either foretold one hell of a turnaround, or trouble. Or maybe, both.

“My father is here with Lash. I’m not sure why—they just got here. But he wants to meet you. So, let’s get in there. And please, don’t offer them pizza. Lash could eat it and she probably would out of courtesy, but the Stradolans eat energy, not food. My father would be terribly offended. He doesn’t have a good sense of humor.” Shade grabbed the pizzas out of my hand and hustled me inside.

“I’m not dressed for meeting him—” I started to protest, but Shade vanished into the kitchen with the pizzas and food while I leaned back against the wall, holding my breath.

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