Fox Trap by Jayne Fury

Author:Jayne Fury [Fury, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-5378-9173-6
Publisher: Jayne Fury

Seven

Blood on the Pitch

He knew she’d run off. She did. Of course.

As a constabulary, he had sworn to uphold the law. As a Sanguinary, he had an honor oath to protect all the kin of Ghael. No matter how stupid they were, running off on their own… He tracked her the distinctive scent of Elinor Morgan. It was like the forest floor loam and moss, lush and green. But when she was excited or agitated it was the scent he picked up in the tea shop: boggy peat. He had let his nose lead him. All the while, dreading what he might find. Terrified of what he might find. Once again, the encounter with Ysbal Fortier and the haunting choice. “Davin, come to papa…”

In the distance all he had seen was the drunken flailing of his quarry. When he returned to the scene, Elly was in her human form, wobbling, the scent of death filled the air. Elly sank to her knees to the blood soaked ground.

“Rank meat.” He uttered the epithet and shook his head.

“What?” There was a catch in her voice. She turned her head up to him. Her eyes narrowed, turning to slits to match the thin line of her lips.

“It’s normal to be upset. This was a friend, right?” Blaine asked.

“It’s my fault… I chose Amery because… because he was a bit of a jerk last night, wanting back into my pants. Ysbal saw me with him. That was before you and I met in the alley.” she hesitated. He saw her mouth work as if more words wanted to come but there was a hesitation. Was it anger? At him?

Whatever Ysbal said to her, she wasn’t going to tell him. Did Ysbal know? The lies between them were stopping up the dam of truth, all because of that pesky Seannach secrecy pact .

“Hey.” He patted her shoulder, trying for comfort and to cross the bridge between them. If she could just trust him. But what could he possibly do? “It’s not your fault, if not Amery, another man or woman. But I am feeling like you’re a lot more aware of how close you came to this last night.”

Her head bowed, hair shaking, her body joined in.

An agonized sob escaped. Elly’s lips trembled as she spoke. “He tore Amery to shreds… didn’t even bother with the blood sucking bit, just tore him apart.”

No, he ate a few organs. Blaine wisely kept that to himself, for now. “A waste of a life,” Blaine said instead. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Elly watch as he got down on his knees and examined the ribboned parts of Amery more closely, paying attention to where the shreds in the skin were.

“What is it?” she stifled a sob though she didn’t get any closer to the body.

“I don’t want to upset you further.”

“Please, I’m not going to sit here being the blubbering helpless female, give me something to get angry about.” Her voice growled towards the end as she rubbed her eyes with a jerk.

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