Heir of Shadows (The Shadowborne Legacy Book 1) by Emma Harley

Author:Emma Harley [Harley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Raina slung her sports bag over her shoulder and wiped a small tear from her eye. She had sat on a video call with Thea to say her goodbyes after finishing packing up her room. Thea had made her promise at least forty times that she would be careful, and not get herself into trouble. A small pain in her chest took a while to dissipate when she told Thea that her cousins couldn’t know the truth. Raina’s death would be announced in a few days, and all her money in her accounts and life insurance would go to her. Raina made her promise that she would spend at least half of it on herself, not blow everything on her kids like she always did.

Raina had managed to squeeze everything she was taking into her bags, including some of the professional clothing Kalen had supplied when she was a human. She may not have been a fan of them for everyday use, but she did enjoy how she looked in a tailored pantsuit and satin blouses.

Her squad had assembled in the dining room, most of them unable to eat much once they realised the magnitude of what they were about to do. Raina lugged her bags in with her and dumped them down beside an empty chair.

“I want to make this very clear right now. This room reeks of fear and anxiety. No one needs to go if they have any doubts at all. I promise I will never hold this against any of you. I just said goodbye to my aunt, and can’t say it to my cousins because they have to believe I died even though they’re from the other world. That’s their home and they’re the last members of family I have, I don’t begrudge them for staying, and I won’t begrudge any of you,” she announced clearly, leaning on the back of the chair.

Davin poked at his toast as JJ swirled a glass of orange juice, still unable to touch anything.

“We’re nervous Phoenix,” Izak mumbled, “it’s not that I have doubts, I’m just nervous about the unknown.” Alicia echoed her agreement.

“I’ve gone into warzones, but even then I knew what was waiting for me,” she squeaked, “none of us know what’s on the other side of this. I don’t think my life insurance ever covered the possibility of being eaten by ogres.”

Elias chuckled. “Ogres went extinct thousands of years ago. You can find their remains in museums though.” His chuckles quickly died as he realised his reassurance did not work.

“If it helps at all, there’s an awful lot of similarities in our world,” Kalen added, “we have cars and very similar technology to yours. It’s not the medieval world Raina thought it was.” Nick perked up slightly.

“You have computers?”

Elias nodded. “Of course we do, although I’d say our technology is significantly more advanced than yours. We didn’t have the time delay since we didn’t have to build machines for everything, we could use magic.”

Raina smiled at her team as they gave small glances between each other.

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