Ever Witch Chronicles Collection 1 by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KitBla

Twenty-Seven

Slade

I was tired of hiding in the shadows. The words poured out of my mouth before I could stop them, and I watched almost in slow-motion as the Hollow Well charged across the room.

He was too lost in a rage to know what he was doing. I shoved Everest to the side before he hurt her trying to get to me and braced for his hit.

We slammed back into the couch, tipping it over, but I managed to get out from his grasp and spin around, landing a kick to his face.

I might be wounded, but this dragon had no idea what it meant to be in a real fight, not yet. To fight to survive.

He was out of his league, but if this was what he wanted to do, I’d wear him down.

Everest yelled at us to stop, but Jared was past listening to her.

“Why did you mention my sister, you bastard?” he bellowed as he came at me again.

I ducked under his first punch, and landed two of my own to his sides, forcing him backward again. “Ariel? I knew about her, I know about all the young who have been killed!”

“Course you do because your kind killed them!”

He drove his shoulder into my chest, and I grunted before I slipped around him and threw him into the wall. His head thudded hard against it, but he just shook it out and bared his teeth at me. At least this apartment was too small for him to shift. Not sure my body could handle that right now.

“Because we protect them!” I bellowed and clocked him in the face. “We try to save those the Black Diamonds target, and your sister… she was under our protection.”

“Some protection,” Jared threw back at him viciously. “She was killed!”

“So was my sister. Trying to save yours!”

My words echoed around me, chest heaving, as a heavy silence fell over the room.

Jared’s eyes narrowed, but he backed away a few more steps. “What did you say?”

“Slade?” Everest whispered behind me.

I hung my head.

All the pain from the last few years of my life reared its ugly head until I could barely see straight let alone keep breathing.

I clutched at my chest and sagged against the nearest wall, my recent wounds throbbing. “My sister was part of the Light Guard, and Ariel Winchester was her charge, just like Everest is mine,” I told them quietly, hating to relive that night. “The night Ariel was killed, my sister… Victoria… she was ambushed by the enemy.”

“By Shadowguards?” Jared asked, not sounding so sure of himself anymore.

“No, by Black Diamonds. They took her and they… they tortured her for answers about the Light Guard, about the others in our charge.” I fought back against the lump in my throat. “She said nothing, and then was executed.”

“You saw it, didn’t you,” Everest said.

I bobbed my head once.

“Slade, I’m so sorry.” Her hand found mine and squeezed.

Her touch was warm and gave me strength as I faced down the others in the room.

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