Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

Author:Jennifer Ashley [Ashley, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal, Romance, Shift
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

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The boat inched through the rain, which did nothing to slacken the fog. Rae slid into the copilot’s chair after a time, while Miles remained on the floor as his fox.

Rae watched Zander peering ahead to the ice walls, rock, fog, waves, and who knew what else, tension in every line of him. He was confident they’d get out, but not one hundred percent positive. Rae wanted to yell at him again for dragging her in here but she didn’t want to risk distracting him.

The view out the front window didn’t change. That is, it altered from moment to moment, but it didn’t clear and show them open water.

Lights on the stern of this boat directed Piotr, who was following close behind in Zander’s. If Zander ran into anything, Piotr would slam directly into them and they’d all go down. Comforting thought.

To take her mind off such things, Rae brought out the Sword of the Guardian and took both pieces out of the sheath. She laid them on the front windowsill, careful to keep them from sliding onto the controls.

Two pieces of dull silver, etched with runes, lay inert before them. Daragh had known what the runes meant but Rae hadn’t had time to look them up or even read any of his logs about it, which were on his computer back home. The computer was in the small house Daragh had used as his personal retreat but Rae hadn’t been let in there.

Rae studied the crack in the silver, which lined up perfectly when she slid the two pieces together. She half hoped to see a magic spark fuse the two together, but nothing happened.

“Sorry, Daragh,” she whispered.

Did Rae imagine the slight ripple that ran through the silver? She leaned forward eagerly but the sword simply lay there, flat and unwinking. Yes, she’d imagined it. Damn it.

“Still talking to a dead guy?” Zander asked her.

“Still talking to a friend who’s gone to the Summerland,” Rae said right back to him. “Friends . . . You know, those people who have your back?”

“Peace, Little Wolf, I was teasing you.”

“I know.” Rae did know it. Zander was easy to grow angry with, but it was hard to stay mad at him for long. He knew just the right thing to say to put Rae’s back up and then how to make her laugh.

“When did you know you had healing power?” Rae asked him, curious. “Did you have a Choosing, like for the Guardian?”

“Nah.” Zander made a minor adjustment to their course—Jake probably told him to. “I was a cub, minding my own business, when wham. Suddenly I’m thrown to the ground by nothing. When I get up, I’m putridly sick. I went back home to find out my dad had been shot. Not fatally,” he added quickly, “but a hunter mistook him for a real bear and shot him. Not that hunters were supposed to be targeting polar bears at all, but some people will open fire on any animal, just for the hell of it.

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