Dark Burn: Fated & Forbidden by Decadent Kane

Author:Decadent Kane [Kane, Decadent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Doulzen had watched his mate rescue herself. His mind could hardly believe such a naive little thing had actually broken her captor's arm.

After Nicholas had headed back over to Priya, he'd shaken the bars over and over again, trying to find a weak point. He couldn't deal with firebirds being human, so instead, he'd focused on freeing himself. He'd watched in both awe and horror as Priya had found her own escape. When she'd freed the firebird, he'd known he had to start making some noise, to get her attention somehow. She'd looked toward him so many times, and each time he'd yelled her name. He'd continued screaming for her and rattling the cage, unable to do anything else. Finally, she'd stopped, looked at some kind of screen, and froze.

Priya turned and yelled, "Doulzen?"

"I'm here! I swear." His voice had grown a little hoarse from the yelling. She seemed to be looking around, actively seeking him. Could she hear him? She turned to Nicholas.

"Where is he?"

"Who?" The word came out strained from Nicholas's mouth.

"You know damn well who. How do I get to him?" Her voice had taken on a hard tone. Would she do the man harm again? She slammed a hand down on the desk and one of the lights fizzed above Doulzen's cage.

When she'd snapped his arm, Doulzen had wanted to break the other one too, his body aching to give a little payback. But without his shadow powers, he was just a man in a cage.

The thought rattled him to his core. The woman from his dream came back, her words haunting him as he remembered what she would do if he did not win favor with his mate, create a bond. He shuddered. All of his powers, everything, would be gone. Would his clan survive the process . . . becoming only human? Would he survive it?

He leaned over the bars and hunched down. There had to be some way out . . .

He caught the bare hint of a shadow—mostly just dulled light from the bulb fizzling out, but it was there. He didn't waste any time. He gathered it. He wasn't quite sure how to use it, as escaping a cage hadn't been on the syllabus in shade school. He pushed the shadow toward the bar at the bottom; if he pushed using his magic, perhaps there would be enough give to break the bar. The shadow slid to the bottom of the bar and seemed to hover. Doulzen slammed his shoulder into the bar repeatedly until he heard a snap. He slid back and kicked with all his might. The shadow had disappeared into the light again, but it had helped enough. He was sure if he just bent the bar back . . .

The bar twisted and groaned under his incessant force, enough that if he turned his body sideways and slid out, he'd be free. Doulzen took off his trench and rolled it into a ball, fascinated by how odd it looked without shadows hiding under it.

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