Glimmer of Death: An Urban Fantasy Novel (The Other Realm Book 3) by Heather G. Harris

Author:Heather G. Harris [Harris, Heather G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Heather G. Harris
Published: 2021-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The door banged open and Emory ran in, his jaw tight, emerald eyes blazing. His hands were held in front of him, and fire was sizzling on his fingertips. Yeesh.

Nate followed. He met my eyes and looked vaguely apologetic. Emory must have spotted him loitering outside the room and figured out where I was. It looked like Emory had panicked when he’d heard I was in a room with the deadliest assassin that ever lived. It would have been quite touching if he hadn’t looked so angry.

‘Prime Elite.’ Bastion greeted Emory casually with an inclination of his head, ignoring the fire that licked at Emory’s hands. Then he turned his attention back to me. Obviously he didn’t see Emory as a threat, which was either brave or foolish. ‘Anything?’ Bastion asked me.

‘Something,’ I confirmed.

Emory’s nostrils flared, and he glared at me. ‘I told you to stay away from Bastion.’ His tone was flat. He was still tense, but he let the fire extinguish as he took in the relative calm of the room.

‘You did,’ I agreed. ‘But you’re my boyfriend, not my boss.’

‘Currently I am both,’ Emory said tightly. ‘I hired you to look into the virus.’

‘So did Bastion. I’m not quite sure what you’re having a fit over.’

‘He’s not happy about our meeting, Jessica Sharp,’ Bastion said, as if I really didn’t know what the issue was.

‘Yes, thank you, Bastion. I’d gathered that.’

‘It’s almost like the Prime Elite doesn’t trust me.’ Bastion spoke quietly, but there was nothing soft about his tone. ‘You ordered me not to harm her, Prime, and I have not done so.’

Emory ordered him not to harm me? What the hell was going on here? I knew there was more to the Prime title than I’d thought, but why was Bastion obeying Emory?

‘I ordered you not to meet with her,’ Emory snarled. ‘Yet here you are.’

Bastion nodded and gave a small smile, but his eyes stayed flat and dead. ‘She found me.’ He said it innocently, like he hadn’t baited the trap that I’d sprung.

‘Enough bickering,’ I intervened firmly. ‘Bastion and I have agreed to work towards a common goal. No one is killing anyone just now.’

‘How dull,’ Nate commented. ‘Nothing like the joke.’

I took the bait. ‘What joke?’

Bastion answered for him. ‘A dragon, a vampyr and a griffin walked into a bar.’

I waited a beat. ‘And?’ I asked. ‘What’s the punchline?’

‘Nothing. They all killed each other.’ Bastion shrugged.

Nate snickered. ‘The old ones are the good ones.’

I sighed. ‘Not all species are evil, you know. There is good and bad in everything. You can’t just decide that a whole species deserve death. It’s ludicrous.’

Nate flashed Emory a grin. ‘Next thing, she’s going to suggest me as your best man.’

I flushed bright red. ‘We’re not quite at the marriage stage yet, thank you.’

Nate raised an eyebrow. ‘You may not be, but he ran in here like his mate was in danger.’

‘Thank you, Nathaniel,’ Emory glared.

‘Well,’ I said faux enthusiastically, ‘this has been fun. But I’m supposed to be in another room right now, so I’ll leave you to it.

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