Devil's Gate: A Novella of the Elder Races by Thea Harrison

Author:Thea Harrison [Harrison, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781947046993
Publisher: Teddy Harrison LLC
Published: 2017-08-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The Depths

Panic and disorientation sank claws into Seremela and wouldn’t let her go.

Vetta was to be hanged? For poisoning someone?

She couldn’t drag in a deep enough breath and struggled for air as she stared at the human and his Light Fae bodyguard.

The Light Fae bruiser stared back at her, his cynical expression turning wary. He took a couple steps back and drew his gun.

“Leash your dog,” Duncan said sharply. “He’s about to get stupid.”

What dog? Duncan moved so fast he blurred, crowding her back against a wall. Seremela stared at him blankly. What the hell was he doing?

When he stopped, he stood between her and the Light Fae, and belated understanding slammed into her—he was shielding her with his body.

At the same moment the nerdy human snapped, “Holster it, Dain.”

Lean, strong fingers came under her chin, and Duncan forcibly turned her face toward him. “Don’t look at him,” Duncan said to her in a quiet voice. “Look at me.”

She tried to focus on him. That was when she realized all her snakes were hissing at the Light Fae. Her panic had turned them deadly. She could feel them, roused and wanting to bite, and as she looked over Duncan’s shoulder, she could tell that the Light Fae male knew it.

“At me, Seremela,” Duncan whispered gently.

Her attention shifted back to him. He raised a hand and stroked it along a few of the snakes, and they quit hissing and wrapped around his forearm. Even though his back was turned to an unknown male with his gun drawn, Duncan looked calm, his dark gaze steady.

As soon as he knew he had gotten her attention, he smiled at her. “They’re not going to hang her,” he said telepathically. “We won’t let them.”

She calmed, marginally. They were only two people in an overcrowded, dangerous and unknown place. Maybe it was ridiculous to believe him. Certainly it was neither sensible nor logical, but she did.

Impulsively she reached up to touch his lean cheek, more of the snakes reaching for him, and his gaze warmed. “Duncan, I don’t know what he’s talking about,” she said. “Vetta isn’t a Tarot reader, and she might be a total contrary shit, but she’s not a murderer. That’s insane. If—if by any chance she did kill someone, she wouldn’t have had any other choice.”

He frowned. “We need to ask some questions now. Whatever he says, we’re going to make this right. Okay?”

She nodded jerkily. “Okay.”

He took her hand and kissed her fingertips, then carefully disengaged himself. Only then did he turn around to face the pharmacist and his Light Fae guard, who had holstered his gun.

All of her snakes had calmed as she had calmed. She gathered them to her and nudged them behind her shoulder as Duncan said, pleasantly, “Let’s start this conversation over, shall we?”

Wendell regarded them both with narrowed eyes. “Fine, but you’re scaring away my paying customers, so your free sample is over,” he said, chewing gum. “You want to know anything else, you gotta pay.

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