Courting Darkness (Fae Revealed Book 1) by Katie May & Quinn Arthurs

Author:Katie May & Quinn Arthurs [May, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Expresso Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Xander

I dart forward, grabbing Foster around his arms, locking them to his sides.

“Get yourself under control or you’ll expose us all,” I snarl in his ear, yanking him away from Tristan.

Luckily, the burn his frenzied attack left on Tristan’s face is minor, looking more like the start of a bruise than an actual burn. Tristan won’t be too thrilled later, though, when Gage will have to heal that and then actually deck him to make sure it truly does bruise. I have a sneaking suspicion that Sera will notice if it doesn’t.

Not like the idiotic pup doesn’t deserve it since he damaged Sera. He’s lucky I don’t go after him myself, and he better hope that Devyn doesn’t hear about this until he’s far, far away, or he’s likely to lose a limb. Or two. Maybe three if it’s been a really bad day at work.

He’d do far more than bruise if Tristan weren’t our little brother. I know he’d never actually hurt a woman, but he always gets over enthusiastic about the world around him and tends to react without thinking of his own size and strength.

Foster thrashes in my hold for a moment, a growl rumbling in his chest as he attempts to get back to the still prone Tristan, but I refuse to relax my grip, my shadows reaching underneath my hold to bind him even tighter, wrapping him close in their cooling strands.

As a fire elemental, Foster is still able to burn me, despite the shadows, but he’ll have to work at it, given my years of experience.

“Calm down,” I hiss at him, my bands tightening enough to make his ribs creak under my touch. “Focus. Those wounds have aged some. They couldn’t all have been caused by Tristan. There has to be something else going on, and she’s never going to explain if you don’t calm down.”

With my shadows shielding my skin from the heat pumping off of him, I tug him farther away from Tristan. It’s very, very rare for Foster to lose his cool like that, but when it does happen, we all have to be wary. His temper can rival that of a tropical storm—fierce and deadly, blazing with the fires of hell itself.

“Well, that was unexpected,” Sera drawls, and I glance over my shoulder to see her swatting at Gage’s hands where he’s attempting to investigate the wounds that seem to litter her body. Bruises, welts, and tiny knicks decorate her skin in a series of crisscrossing wounds.

At my pointed look, Gage subtly wipes blood on the edge of her sleeve in order to explain how he found the wounds. He can’t exactly tell her he psychically X-rayed her…

Foster lets out a deep breath, sagging slightly in my grip as he gets himself under control. “I’m good,” he whispers, and I slowly release him, calling my shadows away so they won’t be seen.

My shadows aren’t sentient. At least, they aren’t in the way the world defines the term. I characterize them as echoes of past souls.

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