Broken Stars - Eryn and Larcen (Book 3): Delta Underground Operatives by Kat Lapatovich Healy & Kat Healy

Broken Stars - Eryn and Larcen (Book 3): Delta Underground Operatives by Kat Lapatovich Healy & Kat Healy

Author:Kat Lapatovich Healy & Kat Healy [Healy, Kat Lapatovich & Healy, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KattasticReads
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Larcen

The robe of shadows embraced me like an old friend as the power of the Puddle surged through me. It was stronger than the Spider Queen’s venom had ever made me, filling me with the intoxicating sense of invulnerability. My vision sharpened on my enemies, the shadows lengthening into tendrils to assert my will.

But as I surged forward to seize them, something pulled me back.

The ariel.

Our hands were still connected.

“Follow my lead.” We’d always used our Puddle powers separately, fighting for a common outcome, sure, but never linked together. If we had, I would’ve noticed before now how her eyes shone like white suns, how her cheerful face was a mask of cold judgment. She was terrifyingly beautiful, and the twin to her power surging through me delighted in her show of strength. The shadow robe whirled around me eagerly as the ariel lifted her fan.

The storm winds of her power crackled with lightning. It fizzled out with a series of firecracker-like pops as she turned her fan horizontal, the winds flattening from a tornado into a swirling ring around us. I remembered the eye of the storm she’d created against Mickey’s vampires, how the hearth pixie Toomi had set it on fire.

Stretching out my free hand, I directed my shadows into the wind.

The air around us turned black, almost blotting out the spotlights, and then the ariel lifted her fan. The suction of the swirling wind lifted the sand with it, and then the eels.

The yellow creatures writhed as they were pulled from their sandy habitat, twisting like the tails of a windsock in an oceanic gale. They were suspended for only a moment, and then my shadows attacked.

They plucked the monsters from the air like herons seizing fish, flinging them upwards into the electrical net. My shadows pinned them against the snarling blue-white ropes, their shrieks echoing throughout the cave as they were fried to a crisp. The acrid stench of greasy smoke swept upwards, and the crowd recoiled with disgusted cries.

Then I heard a scream I recognized.

Vander, who had seized a spear embedded in the pit’s wall, was slipping. The ariel’s storm wind was too strong for his grip, debris lashing him in the face and cutting his arms, all while his feet were pulled straight out behind him. The werewolves were faring no better, yelping as they tried desperately to fight the tenacious drag of the wind.

The pit must have a winner.

My shadows struck simultaneously, coiling around each set of feet like octopus tentacles and plucking them free from the wall. They snatched up the remaining eels as well, lifting them all to the electrical net.

“Enough,” Rawson bellowed. “Cut the electricity! Do you have any idea how expensive those sand eels are?”

The electricity disappeared with a resounding snap!, and I released my hold on the Puddle’s power. I didn’t need the shadows anymore, letting the surge of primordial strength leech out of me.

But the ariel had yet to release hers. The winds tightened into a



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