Claim the Dragon by A.C. Arthur

Author:A.C. Arthur [Arthur, A.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-31T21:04:46+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Dammit!” Ravyn screamed as she sent the lamp flying into one of the three side-by-side windows in the room. It only bounced back, the base going in one direction and the plaid-print shade going in another. The light bulb stayed intact, which didn’t really matter because the woman named Shola had flipped on a set of switches when they’d walked into the room, draping the space in a soft gold light.

Ravyn paced across the room for what felt like the billionth time, dragging her hand through the one side of her hair.

“I gotta get out of here,” she spat and turned to pace in the other direction.

Pausing, she looked at the door again. It was locked, the knob, a small black iron one, wouldn’t even move when she tried to turn it. There were no bolts that she could see and no keyholes, so how had they locked it? Probably some sort of electric mechanism. That was just great.

The windows were a no-go too. She had no idea what they were made of, some super Plexiglas, maybe, but they were unbreakable. She’d tossed a chair, used a coat stand from the corner and then the lamp that was now in two pieces, with no luck at all. There was no other way out. No vent that she could fool herself into thinking she could shimmy through, no window in the bathroom, no way to maybe use the dagger to pick the door open.

With a heavy sigh she looked down at the dagger.

“Why aren’t you glowing now? Or floating over to break through that window?” Stopping her movement to drop down on the bed, she shook her head. “Because you’re an idiot, that’s why.”

The feeling she’d felt back at that hotel, and the glow from the dagger, the way she’d floated through the air and the dagger had done the same thing. For those few moments Ravyn had started to believe. She’d begun to think that maybe there was something to otherworldly powers or things that weren’t easily explained. Because she’d never felt as powerful as she had in those minutes. Not even that night when she’d leapt from that roof. Even though, now that she was thinking about it, maybe that was connected to the dagger, as well.

“Nonsense. That dirty old dagger isn’t cursed, nor is it giving you any powers. It’s just a relic, and one that’s brought us a lot of money.”

That thought made her smile. There was so much she wanted to buy for Safeside, so many things she wanted to do for the people there. If she could get out of this mountain jail first.

“Who are these people? And what was that thing?”

Her questions—which by the way were just as odd as every day had been since she’d stolen that dagger—halted when she heard the clicking sound at the door.

She jumped off the bed, grabbing the dagger she’d tossed on it when she realized it wasn’t going to work, then lifted her shirt to stuff it into the waistband of her jeans.

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