Blood Debts (The Temple Chronicles Book 2) by Silvers Shayne

Author:Silvers, Shayne [Silvers, Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Funny, were-wolves, vampires, angel, Wizard, demon, Demons, Supernatural, best-seller, Angels, were-wolf, bestseller, vampire, romance, wizards, Adventure, new, comedy, mystery, Magic, Romantic, Werewolves, Action, thriller, Urban Fantasy, St. Louis, werewolf, Paranormal, Fantasy, Suspense
Publisher: Argento Publishing
Published: 2015-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I thought you were bonkers when you had me add those boots to our gear. They’re supposed to be for hiking, in order to deter lurking beasts or hunters from a campsite.” Othello shook her head in disbelief as she carefully exited the snow-covered highway.

“It wasn’t just the boots. The boots in combination with an unexplainable disappearance of their comrade is what did it. You’ll find that the best way to survive is to cause doubt or fear in your enemy. If you can instill that emotion, it stays with them in the back of their minds, always ready to be the first answer to the next unexplainable event that goes wrong. People will believe anything if they are afraid that it might be true.” Thank you for that, Terry Goodkind, I thought to myself with a tip of my mental hat. “You just have to cause the doubt.”

“Yeah, but they were only rubber paw prints on the soles of our boots. You would think a werewolf would know the difference. Or that they could smell the difference.”

“That’s why I told them they were from spirit wolves. It compounded their fear even more. They didn’t know how to disprove it. Would a spirit wolf have a smell? Would spirit wolves steal a body entirely? Who knows? That’s why I had us click off the paw print extensions before we stopped. It would have been pretty obvious if the prints ended exactly where we were standing, and then if we moved during the fight they would immediately realize it was a bluff.”

She stared at me for a moment. We were at a red light. “You think that far in advance?”

I shrugged. “I guess so. Being a wizard means that you have to think on the fly a lot and deal with the cards you’ve got. I didn’t know the boots would be helpful at all. I heard your guys talking about their unique feature, and unique features can always be exploited.” I waved her on as the light turned green. “Also, it’s cold as balls outside and my sneakers wouldn’t have kept me that warm in the snow, so I opted for us to change boots.”

She chuckled, mumbling to herself as she accelerated again. The car grew silent, the cheer slowly fading. We hadn’t actually accomplished anything worth celebration. We had in fact failed to stop the Demon, and had in turn been framed by the Angel or whatever that thing had been. Had it been one of the Nephilim? My thoughts drifted as I tried to come up with a new game plan. “So. What happened to the wolves? Did you really kill them?”

I shook my head. “I disappeared them… after injuring them significantly and knocking them unconscious. When they wake up and reappear at dawn it will make me look even more mysterious. Which is a good thing in my world. Mystery keeps enemies on their toes.”

“Okay. That makes me feel better. I didn’t want to kill mine either.

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