Guardian (Diary of A Dark Monster Book 1) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885410465
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

If Henry could say one good thing about this disaster of a day, it was that the Suzuki was in better shape than he expected. Its speed had been arrested a bit by a few bushes, and by the time it hit the telephone pole, it was going fairly slowly.

Even so, the bike was squealing miserably and begging for mercy by the time he wheeled it back inside the cave. Henry wasn’t doing much better, fighting for each breath through the massive bruise on his side.

Winter was waiting for him, his powerful arms folded across his chest. He regarded the broken Suzuki with a frown. “Quite a nice piece of machinery to die so young. Automotive technology is its own kind of magic. Unfortunately, your vehicles are quite sensitive to sudden stops. Especially when they involve a collision with a solid and unmovable object.”

Henry shrugged, then grunted in pain when the motion tugged at his bruised flesh. “You’ll get used to it, Winter. It happens. A lot.”

Winter followed Henry as he limped toward the medical bay. “You’re telling me, Henry, that you continuously throw your money at high-end motorcycles only to crash them one after the other?”

“That’s exactly what I’m telling you.” Henry heaved himself onto an examination table and started cutting off his shirt with a pair of shears. “Some guys blow their money on travel and nights out at clubs. I blow mine so I can at least have something nice to crash on. Better than doing it on whatever piece of shit that Stryker guy was on.”

“That piece of shit gave your little steed a run for its money, I’d say.” Winter stole the shears and slapped Henry’s hands away. “Put your clumsy fingers somewhere else. Let me do this.”

Henry winced, preparing for a dwarven walloping, but it didn’t come. Winter was surprisingly gentle as he touched Henry’s bruise.

“Must be a cracked rib or two. And a hell of a bruise. You won’t be able to take a full breath for a while, laddy, but I think you’ll make it. Now let’s see about this bleeding.” He sat Henry up and used a gauze pad to clean a gash on the back of his head. “Yep, he hit you hard. I’m as surprised as he was that you didn’t go out for the count.”

“I guess when my sister told me I had a hard head, she was right.” Henry hissed in pain as Winter pulled the wound together. “Speaking of Aspen, I was worried I might have to call her in, and I’d have to deal with her lecturing. Where’d you learn to do all this?”

Winter grunted. “Me? Oh, I have siblings of my own, Henry. A lot of them. Don’t even get me started on cousins. The whole lot of them are clumsy or involved in dangerous business. Or both. Knowing a little about how to stitch someone up…the knowledge always comes in handy eventually. Plus it’s good to do favors for family. Keeps the scarier cousins from looking at me funny, you know.

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