Forbidden Bond (Twin Curse Book 1) by Rinelle Grey

Author:Rinelle Grey [Grey, Rinelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-11T06:00:00+00:00

16

Secrets

“This had better be good,” Lyall growled, once Brianna had left the tent, “and not just an excuse to interrupt me.”

Urster ignored his threat. “We can’t complete the barrier.”

Lyall’s eyebrows shot up. “Can’t complete it? What do you mean? Is the magic shield affecting it?”

“I don’t know, sir,” Urster said, unruffled. “We set the barrier up just outside where the magic seems to disappear, as you said, and it was working until we reached the cliffs at the back of the village. There’s a point there where it just won’t form. We can’t reach it on foot, so I don’t know if there is magic there or not.”

Lyall frowned. “Is it because of the cliffs themselves? Maybe there is something in the rocks.”

“I don’t think so, sir,” Urster said. “They seem just like ordinary stone to me, and stone shouldn’t stop the barrier.”

Lyall nodded agreement. The only thing the barrier couldn’t pass through was living tissue. But then again, he’d never heard of a way to remove magic from an area either. “Well, so long as the areas you can’t cover are impenetrable, then I don’t suppose it matters at this point. We’ll investigate more thoroughly in the morning.”

“Yes, sir,” Urster agreed.

That should have been it, their conversation was finished, but the old man didn’t leave.

Lyall sighed. “Go on, out with it.”

“You need to be careful, sir. I know you care about her, but she’s shown already that she can’t be trusted. Her presence here just indicates that she must be involved with them somehow. It is the only explanation.”

What he said made sense, even if it didn’t agree with the truth Lyall felt in his heart. He wanted to insist upon it, but to argue with Urster would only make him look careless. “I’m aware of that,” he said tightly. “But accepting her ruse gives us the chance to get closer to the villagers that gives us more chance to find out what is going on. Right now, we have no idea what’s preventing our magic working within the village, or why a community of mages have been hiding away here all this time. Once we get to the bottom of that, I can decide what to do about her.”

“You have to keep her alive,” Urster reminded him. “Without her, you’re as good as dead.”

As if Lyall needed reminding. The old woman rotting in his father’s dungeons was reminder enough. Once you were bonded, there were no other options.

He didn’t want to think about that. “Tell me about the measures you’ve taken to secure the village,” he asked instead. Talking about the security measures would keep Urster busy and hopefully make him forget about Brianna.

Unlike Lyall, who could never forget her.

*****

No one attempted to stop Brianna as she wound her way through the tents and back to the village wall, but she felt many eyes boring into her back. She shrugged, trying to remove the pressure, but it remained. She had no doubt they all knew who she was.

Was

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