Dark Guardians Trilogy: Cruxim, Creche & Creed Dark Fantasy Box Set by Cox Karin

Author:Cox, Karin [Cox, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: sexy paranormal romance, Medieval, Paris, dark hunter fantasy, fallen angel paranormal romance, 18th-century Europe, dark angel, gothic romantic saga, London, vampire trilogy, horror vampires, dark themes, vampire love, dark gothic romance
Publisher: Indelible Ink Press
Published: 2015-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“No!” I shouted, palm out. “Do not bring the stone here. I will come to it by day. Take it to the Council Hall.”

The thought of Sabine’s anchorstone here in the Eyrie, in the place where I had taken Skylar in my arms and forgotten all else, seemed a sacrilege to me. I could subject neither of them to such a trespass. I fumbled with the last button, hiding my body from Daneo’s stare, and walked to Skylar.

Her body was tense, electric—static with my nearness.

“It is in Cascadia,” Daneo said. “We flew for it late last night. You enjoyed the Cygnus Amoratus, Skylar?” His sharp eyes darted between the two of us.

Skylar answered his question with one of her own, “Why there?”

“For safekeeping.” His lip curled as he added, “I bring bad tidings. We may soon have need of his Sphinx lover.” The word seemed as sharp as the teeth in his mouth.

Skylar crossed the room in an instant and snatched up a javelin off the wall. I had not noticed it there, where it lay on a high shelf. It seemed almost a natural part of her as she carefully balanced its weight in her hands. Propping it against a wall, she then turned to the shelf again and took down a quiver of arrows, all silver-tipped and fledged with swan feathers. As she strapped on the quiver, she said, “Daneo, there is death in your tone. Tell me what has happened.”

“Xanthos.” Daneo bowed his head. “The rumors the wind has been whispering to the Silent Sisters are true. They have learned how to kill us.”

Skylar’s gasp was interrupted by Daneo’s command. “Shintaro and Samea will speak to you both. In Cascadia. Immediately.” He nodded curtly, spun on his heel, and left.

* * *

She had masked her thoughts, I knew, as we hurtled down the cliff face, avoiding the balconies that jutted from each Eyrie. We landed at the bottom near a strong door decorated with carvings and filigreed silver. Like most things in Silvenhall, it seemed alive, and I thought I saw snakish movements in the silver in the seconds before Skylar pressed her hand to a hidden cleft in the stone and the door ground open.

“This will be the quickest way,” she said. “And the safest with night upon us. With Xanthos’s death, you will have made more enemies here.”

I scoffed. “Daneo is the worst of them.”

She threw me a look that commanded silence, and I followed her into the passage beyond. It was musty and dark, wending downward, ever downward, in a great spiral that soon made me dizzy. The comforting glow of worms wriggling in the rock was the only light; their luminance highlighted veins of precious metal, and I ran my hand along one as we circled down. “What is this place?”

“Militra Mine,” Skylar told me. “The source of Silvenhall’s wealth and our path out should we ever be attacked. It burrows down deep, below the cascades.”

When we had corkscrewed so deep into

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