Bound 02 - Chaos Burning by Lauren Dane

Author:Lauren Dane [Dane, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781101568880
Google: 0FC2BpFCiAwC
Amazon: B006CU9ZOO
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2012-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

SHE found herself standing in a building that had to easily be ten thousand square feet, with a ceiling that vaulted up three stories. The place was filled with Lycian warriors, including Simon, who all stood facing Cross Leviathan. Each warrior wore nothing more than some tiny shorts. Many had very long hair with warrior braids at the temples. The women also wore the shorts but had a shirt of sorts as well. Though she’d seen a lot of casual nudity since they’d arrived some hours before, she understood this was as much about the ritual as the actual use of the clothing, which they’d shed when they took on their beast anyway.

“A very long time ago, back when I was very young, my grandsire told me about a threat on the wind. A dark storm gathering in the land of the Fae. This storm was attempting to break free and roil into the worlds we all inhabit on this side of the Veil. This storm killed thousands of Fae, rolled over the land and nothing existed in its wake. We don’t know how this storm was stopped, but one day it was simply gone. And the Fae it took never returned.”

The hair on her arms stood as the growls began to rise, rumbling through the building, vibrating straight to her gut.

“This threat has returned. Only this time it’s on Earth and is working with outlaws who’ve begun to attack and kill Others on that plane. Seymeon has come to us with his ne’est to warn us, to see us prepared should the Magister break through the Veil and return once more. It will want to steal our magick, the essence of our beings. WE ARE LYCIANS!” He thundered this and it echoed up and up, booming from the walls as the warriors assembled howled in assent. “We are no one’s prey. We will be prepared, won’t we, Warriors?”

The entire room shook right down the foundations when the two thousand warriors shouted their assent to this question. Lark watched, utterly speechless and impressed by the way they reacted in unison. So much discipline.

Watching Simon do this, watching him as a warrior made her tingly right down to her toes. It wasn’t that she didn’t know he was a badass. Hello, she could still remember the way he’d cocked that giant fist and taken down her attacker with one blow. But this was different. This was Seymeon the Lycian, Seymeon the prince. It was unbelievably hot and appealed to her on so many levels it was totally disconcerting.

He was totally unexpected but everything she’d ever wanted. Honor. Decency. Strength. Integrity. All in a very hot, hard, muscled package in tiny shorts.

She was in big trouble.

“ARE you full? Would you like more food?” One of Simon’s sisters paused to check in on her. The room was full of people. At least two hundred sat at tables that ran the length of the space. The noise was nearly deafening, which was all

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