Hanish_House of Storms by Scarlett Grove

Author:Scarlett Grove [Grove, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Everything was different on the way home from the wine-tasting tour. Hanish had told her he loved her, and she had to admit, she felt the same. If only his secret wasn’t still between them, she could give in to the budding romance that was getting under her skin.

As they turned off the highway and headed toward the Flame house, she saw a shadow flicker in the corner of her eye. JoJo gasped with recognition at the sight.

They were back. They had found her.

Ever since JoJo was a young girl, she had known of the shadow men. They had stalked her and followed her throughout her life and were a constant reminder of the power she held inside—a power she had kept to herself. She prayed they would pass them by, but the shadow men took shape in the middle of the road. Hanish stomped on the brakes. The wheels of the SUV skidded across the blacktop. JoJo screamed.

“Are you all right?” Hanish asked, his arm blocking her chest as they came to a complete stop.

“I’m okay,” she said, catching her breath.

“I’m sorry that you have to see this. I wanted to keep this away from you as long as I could, but it looks like that won’t be possible now.”

“You know about the shadow men?” JoJo asked.

His eyebrows rose. “You know about them?”

“I’ve been seeing them since I was a child.”

“Stay here. I’m going to get rid of them.”

She was going to say something, but he was up and out of the car before she could stop him. The shadow men had stalked her life for as long as she could remember. She had a way of pushing them back into the darkness, and she feared Hanish did not.

The shadow men were dressed in old-fashioned clothing. One wore a suit and held a silver-handled cane. The others were dressed in skinny jeans and hoodies. She didn’t recognize any of them, but she assumed there were different shadow men in America than there were in England.

She could hear muffled words coming from outside, and she struggled to comprehend what was going on. Hanish waved his arms in motions that suggested he was telling them to go away. The man with the cane threw his head back and laughed mockingly at him. They charged at Hanish, opening their mouths and showing their teeth.

Then something incredible happened. The man she had come to have such strong feelings for changed into a massive electric-pink dragon. She launched herself out of the car as the shadow men piled onto him.

Was this what he wanted to tell me about?

“Get away from him!” JoJo screamed, raising her palms toward them.

They all stopped and stared at her with amused expressions. “What are you going to do to us, Dragon Soul?” one of then asked.

“Don’t touch him!” she yelled.

The one with the cane laughed mockingly. “Look. The captain of the House of Storms needs his mate to protect him. Isn’t that cute?”

She took a step closer. “I said—”

Hanish blew a bolt of lightning at the leader, and it burnt his suit to a crisp.

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