Dark Fae by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B009B56MFW
Publisher: HiJinks Ink
Published: 2012-09-13T21:00:00+00:00

12

The Aughisky did just what the three Smiths said they would. They ran at a speed that no one could match, taking us all the way to the West coast. It was early morning, just as dawn was breaking through the cloudy skies when we reached the coast. The scent of the ocean reached me and my mount at the same time.

“Quinn, dismount. Right now,” Bres said, his words brooking no argument.

But my body was sluggish after a night in the saddle and it didn’t want to obey me. My mount snorted and spoke, shocking the hell out of me.

“Lady of the Sea, dismount. I cannot contain my urge to take to the water much longer.”

I slid off, my knees buckling when my feet touched the ground, but it was enough. The Aughisky bolted towards the water, bucking and tearing the saddles from each other’s backs. We watched as they dove into the water, their sleek black bodies disappearing under the waves.

“Thank you,” I said, knowing that they couldn’t hear me, but saying it anyway.

Letting out a groan I tried to stand. “I’m so sore, everything hurts.”

Bres chuckled, mimicking the three Smiths. “Ah, it weren’t so bad, lass.”

I took a swat at him, though it was only half-hearted. “Don’t tease, we have to find Nuadha.”

The sound of multiple swords being drawn from their scabbards was the only warning we had. Bres spun, pulling his own sword, barely in time to parry what would have been a fatal blow.

“Put down your weapons, Fomorii!” our attacker cried out. His armor was polished to a sheen and reflected the weak light of the morning in bright flashes.

“Stop!” I yelled, foolishly thinking that they would listen. Others slipped up behind us, and I did the only thing I could think of—I flipped a Barrier over Bres and me, protecting us from the men who’d surrounded us.

“Drop your Barrier, Quinn.” I recognized that voice, but not because I’d ever met him in person. Slowly I turned to face Nuadha, leader of the Tuatha de Daanan. His hair was shorn, not the long silver braid it had been at his battle with Balor where he’d cursed the Fomorii.

“Nuadha, we aren’t here to fight; we’re here to help,” I said.

“Then drop the Barrier.” His eyes showed no warmth nor malice.

A glance over my shoulder to Bres for some sort of indication of what we should do only gave me a half shoulder shrug to go on. I don’t know, Quinn.

Damn. Where was Cora now? Nowhere. I couldn’t even feel her. A hitch in my throat caught me. Now? She abandoned me, now?

I dropped the Barrier. “You see, we are on your side . . .” The men swarmed over Bres, but when I went to aide him, he shook his head. “No, it’s what I expected.”

Nuadha strolled up beside me. “He is a traitor, two times over. Why would you protect him?”

I frowned up at the silver-haired man. He was everything Luke had been when I’d first met him, arrogant and cocky, only compounded by years of truly believing that he was the best.

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