Hearts and Wishes by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2012-01-29T13:36:48+00:00

Chapter Five

The whisper-soft touch of magick was so faint, Lain wasn’t sure if he’d truly felt it or not. The past four weeks, he’d been operating on a level so far beneath him, living as one of these sorry humans, unable to find the magick he needed to make his move.

It couldn’t be his own magick. They’d use it to track him. But he would need a strong source and an expendable one. Well, whatever he found within the mortal world was expendable as far as Lain was concerned. Mortals weren’t worth the amount of oxygen their pitiful lungs required. If he could find a strong enough source among them, then he wouldn’t blink an eye over what he had to do.

What he needed would most likely be fatal to any human, to most elves. As far as Lain was concerned, the fewer humans who inhabited this world the better. He had plans to eradicate the whole damn lot of them. It would take time but he was elvish. He had plenty of time.

Lain would be patient and he would wait and try again.

Damn the North Council. Nik and Rhys had moved too quickly and most of Lain’s resources were out of his reach. His men had been executed so swiftly, they hadn’t even been given the chance to bid their families goodbye. His holdings had been destroyed. Not claimed by the Council but destroyed.

Elvin justice was swift and merciless. Lain and his men had undertaken their mission with their eyes open and their resolve firm. Knowing each day could be their last, they had faced the risks willingly. But willing or not, Lain was still furious.

Executed like dogs, not allowed to bid their families farewell, not even allowed to leave messages for their loved ones. Treated as the worst criminals, instead of devoted men and women who sought to do what was best for their race.

All the years they had put into the mission, all the money, all the lives… He had no idea what his next step should be but until he managed to get Rhys and the Council’s men off his ass, he couldn’t even begin to formulate a new plan.

And there would be a new plan. He hadn’t come this far to give up now. Getting the bloodhounds off his trail was going to take some doing though. Magick was too damn scarce in the mortal world but if he could find a source, he had a plan.

One that would rattle them enough to get them off his trail long enough for him to regroup. He’d spent the past six weeks searching for a strong enough source with no luck.

Until recently.

Where she was, he didn’t know. Who she was, he didn’t know. But there was a woman out there with enough elvish blood, enough magick, that she would serve quite well.

He just had to find her. She was close, bloody hell, she was so close that his skin practically crawled from the proximity of her power. But all of his searching hadn’t shown him a damn thing.

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