Defensive Magic: A Paranormal Urban Fantasy Tale (Lost Library Book 3) by Kate Baray

Author:Kate Baray [Baray, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Werewolves, shape shifters, magic, romance
Published: 2015-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The sun shone brightly through the truck’s window, unimpeded by clouds, and the sky was a beautifully crisp bright blue. Lizzie could see a hawk riding a draft of wind in the distance. On any other morning, in any other place, she might have appreciated the simple pleasure of watching nature. But not now. No, now she saw trampled grass and the broken body of Carlos as he begged John to kill him. She blinked, trying to erase the image. But she was seeing the picture with her mind, not her eyes.

As Ben parked the truck in a shaded area, John told her again, “You can still stay in the truck.”

She shook her head firmly. Not this time. It seemed like an insult to John and the Pack to hide from the fight. And cowardly.

“Max has to stay in the SUV,” Ben said as he opened her door. “But you’re with me.”

Max was surprisingly silent. His only response was to move to the driver’s seat.

Lizzie acknowledged that she’d heard Ben with a quick nod, but she couldn’t quite manage words. And she was having a hard time looking at John. The sight of him in this clearing again terrified her. She dug her fingers into her back pocket and found John’s business card still there. She wrapped her fingers around the card and cast her newly discovered scent ward. If she couldn’t be fearless, at least she could hide her fear a little.

John squeezed her shoulder once and let go. He whispered in her ear, “That’s my girl.”

What seemed like seconds later, Gregor and his two enforcers arrived.

John’s challenger was broad, bald, and tattooed. Lizzie blinked when she spotted the ink. Gregor had several tattoos, all conspicuously placed. How did a Lycan retain tattoos through the change? She’d expect a Lycan’s change to heal each of the small wounds and burn the ink, just like the magic of the change burned through any clothing or personal items next to a Lycan’s skin.

Lizzie mentally chastised herself. Such a small, stupid thing to fixate on. The more important fact was that, tattoos aside, Gregor was terrifying. He had more bulk than John—an important factor since Lycan retained their mass when they shifted. His eyes were hard and reflected what she suspected was a great deal of experience. And he moved like a fighter—efficiently, almost gracefully. He also looked confident. Either he hadn’t heard the outcome of the last challenge or he simply didn’t care.

A parody of politeness followed Gregor’s arrival. Brief greetings were exchanged, and then the men split up. The enforcers moved to stand roughly equidistant from each other around the outer edge of the clearing, Ben and Scott at north and south and Gregor’s enforcers at east and west. Ben’s position was close to the car where Lizzie had remained during the greetings. He was less than ten feet from her.

She gasped, startled by the rapid onset of the fight. Both men burned through their clothing with the magic of a rapid change and were on top of each other before she was ready.

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