Dragons of Mount Aterna: The Complete Box Set by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Anne

The last thing she saw before ducking down behind the bar was the stranger casually flip a table out of his way as he stormed toward Jake.

Though he was bigger than any of the others in the bar, Anne feared for his safety. The other trio she’d served seemed to be siding with Jake, or someone at his table. They were all getting up too.

What followed next was a lot of shouting. Jake was spewing all his best insults at the unknown intervener. Anne didn’t hear him say anything further. What she did hear, was the sound of a fist hitting something meaty, followed by an even louder crash, and more shouts.

Fearful of what was happening to her precious bar, she peeked up over the lip.

“Oh no,” she moaned.

Her stranger was in the midst of a tornado of angry bar regulars. Jake was on the floor, groaning and trying to pull himself together, laying in the wreckage of one of her tables.

The giant was taking all sorts of blows, and she feared for his safety. Punches and kicks flew at him. Then someone grabbed a chair and smashed it over his head. The other men all cheered, as if expecting that to end the fight then and there.

Instead, the angry giant rose up, shrugged off the pieces of broken wood, and grabbed one of the unknowns by both shoulders. He roared in his face, a wordless violent noise, and tossed him clear toward the back of the bar. Wooden paneling shattered and broke as he slammed into the wall.

Ronnie and Donnie had picked up a table and lifted it high over their heads, thinking that would do more damage than the chair. Ignoring the other men trying to take him down, Anne watched, fascinated, as the giant stood up, grabbed the table, and threw it backward.

Ronnie and Donnie went with it. Anne winced, then cried out as she saw the table bounce off Ronnie and throw one corner through the stained-glass front window. The glass shattered into a million tiny pieces.

“My bar,” she moaned. “Stop it! Please, stop!”

Nobody was listening to her. By this point, their tempers were up, and that was the end of rational thinking. Another table was shattered as the giant literally flung a man through it. How was that possible?

Anne had hot, wet tears streaming down her face by this point as she watched them destroy her bar. This was it—her last chance. There was no money in the budget to fix all this! No way that she could come back from it. She would have to sell it for whatever pitiful amount she could get, and that would be that.

She and Liam would have to move on. Another city for her son, another place that he would hate. Anne was already dreading telling him. He deserved better than what she’d been able to give him over the past two years. So much better.

“Stop,” she cried out as Mikey was thrown against another wall, destroying

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