Blood Sorcery (Shadows of Magic Book 2) by Natalie Grey

Author:Natalie Grey [Grey, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-06-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Lawrence had a runeblade out within a moment. The blade seemed to hum in his hands, and I had a sudden rush of understanding about the truly ostentatious number of knives he carried.

Lawrence’s specialty, I saw now, was metal.

Interesting. Well, he’d been born in the right century, that was for sure … although he didn’t seem to be capitalizing on guns as much as I’d think he would.

“So the rumors were all true,” Fordwin said.

Once, no doubt, his face had looked painfully young. I could see him as he’d been, a boyish youth with a lopsided grin and that luxurious head of hair.

But he hadn’t worn the years well. His face might clear itself of wrinkles easily enough, but it was clear that the scowl he wore was pretty much his only facial expression these days. That, and his eyes said he’d be glad to murder me.

And then probably throw a party. Something with confetti and lots of cake.

All in all, a charming dude.

But I was curious, “Which rumors, exactly?”

“That you had resurfaced.” He gave me an even more unpleasant look than his usual one. “And that you had a Hunter following you around like a lap dog.”

I could only grin at Lawrence’s look of pure outrage.

“This isn’t a hunter,” I pointed out.

Fordwin gave Lawrence another, slower look. His eyes took in the runeblade, and whatever those runes said, his eyebrows rose several notches. He looked back at me.

“So he’s not. And you…” He shook his head. “Apparently you are back to your old ways, then.”

“Given that you were determined to think the worst of me from the start, I don’t think much of that fake disappointment you’re oozing.” I gave him a look. “Besides which, you’re wrong.”

Fordwin lifted a single brow.

“Look.” I threw the word at him. “We don’t like each other. However, you like Terric—presumably—and I like the world not being destroyed, so maybe we could team up just for a few minutes to make sure he’s not doing something wildly dangerous, hmm?”

The corners of his mouth twitched at the presumably, and a wary look emerged on his face.

He considered my words.

“So how did you get involved?” he asked finally. “And don’t think you can lead me into a confidence. That’s all I’ll say on the matter.”

“No need to be cagey. The Coimeail hired me.”

It only occurred to me as the words left my mouth that they might come as a shock to him. I should probably have held that information so I could deliver it for maximum impact, but it was still pretty fun to see Fordwin jerk back as if I’d hit him.

“The Coimeail,” he said carefully, “hired you.”

“Apparently, you weren’t being helpful enough.” I couldn’t quite keep the laugh out of my voice. “So now we come to it, Delaney: do you know where he is and what he’s up to? Because they seemed to think you genuinely don’t know, and I can’t decide if that makes them total idiots or not.”

To my surprise, Fordwin laughed.

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