Dragon's Ground (The Desert Cursed Series Book 2) by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2018-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The hard ground of the plains was not what I would call a comfortable bed to convalesce on, or in. But I had no choice at the moment. That and the words that had slipped from me seemed to have frozen time, the same way Lila had frozen the gorcs with the power of the sapphire.

Maks and I sat there looking at each other when really we should have been dealing with the massive injury on my leg. The thing was, the realization that Ish had somehow set my heart and my mind against me was beyond horrifying. It went against everything she’d ever taught me to believe.

She’d been the mother of my heart, the only one I’d known, and had never shown me a cruel hand. I stared at the glittering necklace I normally wore on the ground beside me. Could she have been manipulating me through it? She’d laid the spell on it herself.

I turned my attention to my leg and grimaced.

The break in my bone was far from clean, but it was still cleaner than the break between Ish and me. The blood wasn’t pouring out of me, which meant it had been pinched off somehow. All I could think were bad things like nerve damage and maybe enough loss of blood that I could lose my foot. Never mind the other tears in the tendons and ligaments of my limbs where the gorcs had decided to play tug of war.

Lila danced around us. “Did you see what I did?”

I gave her the best smile I could. “You were damn amazing, Lila. You should keep that sapphire. Not like I was doing anything with it.”

“You sure you want to do that?” Maks said softly. “Not that we don’t trust you, Lila.” He held up his hands as her once-again violet eyes narrowed. “But how do you hide it? The stone is no small thing.”

He had a point. Lila frowned. “You think someone would try to take it from me?”

“Yes. I think if the gorcs knew it had any power they would have taken it from Zam first.” He sighed and shook his head.

I made myself sit up though the movement sent a shock wave of pain up my leg to steal my breath. “Oh, that’s going to hurt tomorrow. Probably get a bruise from it.”

Sure, it was a piss-poor joke, but I had nothing left to me but my sense of humor. And even that was stretched thin.

Maks looked around. “I know you aren’t going to want to hear this, but we have to move. The gorcs. . . they will have Jinn attached to them, and the Jinn will know that they were killed with a powerful weapon. They will come looking to see who did it.”

I groaned. “Of course. And now that my curse is in full effect, they’ll show up in three, two, one.”

The three of us went very still, listening. But we had some small luck; there was no noise, except for the rumble of Lila’s belly.

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