Fatal Ties: An Urban Fantasy Novel (The Lillim Callina Chronicles Book 7) by J.A. Cipriano

Author:J.A. Cipriano [Cipriano, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-13T18:30:00+00:00

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I didn’t fall for very long, maybe a second or two, before the darkness ripped away from the horizon like a blanket torn off a sleeping toddler to reveal a maze of green hedges. I couldn’t tell how tall the wall of shrubbery was exactly, but if I had to guess, I was going with the size of a skyscraper. The sun above glared bright and hard at my back, scorching my flesh in a way I knew would leave a wicked bad sunburn, but I ignored it as I drew in my power. Still, I would have killed for some sunscreen, or you know, to know where the heck we were because our sun back home wasn’t green.

Monsters swarmed the ground beneath me, crawling atop the dead bodies of their brethren as they tried to reach Thes and Connor who stood atop the heap of corpses like something out of Alien versus Predator. Thes seemed like he was going all out, but from the way Connor was yawning, I didn’t think he was trying terribly hard. Still, it seemed like a bad position to be in, especially since I knew Thes wouldn’t let Connor go balls out. When was he going to learn? In a fight, you do what you need to do to win, and if you happen to survive, well, then you can feel guilty.

I crashed down atop an eighteen-foot-tall giant with skin like coal and hair like writhing blue flame so hard my boots punched his teeth into his feet. Thes spun toward me because he’d evidently missed the giant coming toward him, which seemed crazy because well, giant, but whatever.

When he saw me, his amber wolf eyes went wide with shock. “Lillim?” he asked while backhanding a Viking across the face like Rafiki taking out a hyena in the Lion King. The Viking tumbled backward off the hill, crashing into his brethren and taking them down in a heap that sort of made me think of an avalanche.

“Yeah, I heard you needed a hero, so I came to rescue you,” I said, whirling around and soccer kicking another giant as its head popped into view. My toe caught it under the chin, snapping its head back with a sharp crack. The creature’s eyes glazed over as it fell backward into the horde. There were so many more where it had come from, my taking out it and the two giants behind it was like squishing a couple ants in a swarm.

“Thank God, you’re okay,” Connor said. He was next to me in a flash, a look of relief painted across his features. “I tried to follow you, but you disappeared before I could blink.” He ground his teeth in a snarl as I glanced down at his hands to see him holding the twin blades of Shirajirashii. “I even tried to use your swords to find you, but they wouldn’t talk to me.” His face darkened. “Actually, that’s not true. The snake one stuck his tongue out at me.

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