Guardian of Shadows by Michelle Manus

Author:Michelle Manus [Manus, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seclusion Publishing

16

The space was small. Small enough that the two of them barely fit in it together. Nyx’s back pressed into the wall, the sword and its sheath digging into her spine. Her chest brushed Seth’s when she shifted position, and in the absolute darkness and stale air she had the brief thought to be grateful she wasn’t claustrophobic.

Wait a minute. Stale air. A different kind of panic gripped her then. If the air was already growing stale, just how tightly was this hole in the earth sealed?

“Seth?”

“Yes, Nyx?” His words were a soft caress of air against her cheek. No one had ever said her name the way he did, so comfortable and familiar and full of history. History she couldn’t remember.

“Please tell me you have a plan and I am not going to suffocate in a vertical coffin with you.” Because if they had to stay in here much longer…she couldn’t tell if the oxygen was already running out or if it was just in her head.

“Why? You’d rather suffocate in one with someone else? Maybe a glowering, over-muscled blond someone with no sense of humor?”

Apparently, Seth had decided to move on from sullen and slightly pissed off to teasing. She preferred the former.

“He’s none of your damn business.”

“Touchy,” he murmured. “You two have a lover’s spat?”

Nyx couldn’t say why, exactly, but she didn’t want to talk about Kaden with Seth. It just felt wrong.

“Seth. Get. Us. Out of here.”

“Oh, I don’t know.” His finger traced up the back of her hand, made one lazy circle and slipped under the edge of Gleipnir. “Take this off and maybe I will.”

The shiver that went through her was entirely involuntary. She didn’t like it. She didn’t like how okay she was with him being in her personal space, how comfortable and natural it felt. She didn’t like him holding all the cards when it came to her—their—memories.

She swallowed, and reminded herself to focus on the problem at hand. Yes, being in a small space with dwindling air was concerning, but Seth wouldn’t be so cavalier about it if he thought there was any chance of them dying. She forced herself to lean back against the wall and affect a boredom that translated even in the darkness. “You don’t have a death wish, so I guess I’ll just wait until you get tired of standing here.”

He sighed, as if disappointed she’d called him on his bullshit. “You used to be a lot more fun, Nyxi.”

His hand planted on the wall beside her and a brief click sounded in the small space. The wall propping her up disappeared and she fell through it with a yelp, stumbling for balance. Seth chuckled. With a snap of his fingers, thin veins along the walls began to glow, illuminating the tunnel they stood in.

The tunnel itself—smoothly-hewn from the planet’s ubiquitous red rock—was only about seven feet tall and two feet wide, but the soft yellow light lessened the harsh colors of the rock and made the space seem less confining.

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