Dragonlust: Shadowsword's Harem (Book Two) (Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy Romance) by Rebecca Baelfire & Jenifer Knox

Author:Rebecca Baelfire & Jenifer Knox [Baelfire, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Warrior’s Way

We arrived at the Firewalker and the Maiden before dark, parking in the lot of a courthouse across the street.

Looking at the place from inside the rented SUV, you’d never know the carnage that had happened here. The lives lost, the price those who’d been caught here had paid for taking up the cause. From here, the tavern looked untouched, but if the reports were right, it lay devastated.

“Who in Dragon’s Light gave you a driver’s license, Panatrin?” Annis, my Second in Command glared at me from the passenger’s side.

He hadn’t cast the glamour on his face, but from this angle, I’d never know half his face was badly scarred, his right cheek and the skin around the right eye twisted and puckered, pulling one side of his mouth down slightly. The profile that faced me was all smooth skin, features that still turned ladies’ heads wherever he went, while the other side looked like he’d gotten too close to his own flame.

“I got us here in one piece, didn’t I?” I chuckled, pushing my sunglasses up on my nose.

“That last turn you made nearly sent us into a ditch.”

“You want to drive next time?”

He grumbled as he undid his seatbelt. Having worked as my Second in the Warriors of the Shadow since I’d been appointed the Head of the Warriors six-hundred human years ago, Annis had never bothered with the formality other members were expected to adhere to. He’d been my best friend almost from the start, and I found his frankness, his often caustic honesty refreshing.

While I exited the vehicle, Annis gave a quick wave of his hand over his face. The scars on the right side vanished, that side becoming a mirror image of his good one. The fire that had done the damage had turned his right eye from a vibrant crimson to a cloudy white. With the dark sunglasses he’d magicked on, I couldn’t see his eyes, but I knew his right eye now looked as bright and sharp as the other.

I spared a glance for my watch while Annis climbed out. Stopping at the airport shop before coming here, I’d bought one of those fascinating watches that showed all the different Earth time zones, but the time for Pennsylvania—Eastern Daylight Saving’s Time—read ten of seven. Going by the message Kyas had sent—the message our people had recovered from Grumpy Ted’s—he’d brought her here over seven hours ago, before noon. What had happened to them in the interim? No, I had to believe they were safe, that they’d made it out in time.

“Whoever cast the glamour on this place should be banned from using them.” Eyes on the tavern, Annis’s gravelly voice simmered with anger I knew full well had nothing to do with the magic hiding the tavern’s destruction.

Typical Annis Robar, grumbling over the trivial to mask the issue at hand.

“Why?” I looked the building over. “It looks fine to me.”

The Grumpy Ted’s sign swung in a light breeze, creaking softly. A “closed” sign hung in the front window, and the place looked boarded up.

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