Into the Light (Lightbearer Book 1) by Tami Lund

Author:Tami Lund [Lund, Tami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tami Lund
Published: 2017-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The king of the Lightbearers lived in an oversized beach house perched on a cliff overlooking the entirety of his kingdom, which was comprised of several large clusters of homes, a village square, and acres of pastures where various animals were raised. All but the pastures were located at the bottom of the cliff, on the shore of the lake. When the Lightbearers first settled in this remote area, some five hundred years ago, that first king determined his home would be at the top, and everyone else would be below.

A team of twenty laborers were tasked with building a staircase into the cliff face, so the king and his subjects could easily get to one another. The staircase lasted longer than that original home, but even that had to be repaired every so often. Each stair was wide and made of slate, and a wooden rail ran the length of the cliff wall. At this time of year, it was an easy ascent, although a long one.

Olivia’s father waited at the top.

He was still an attractive man, she noticed, as she forced herself not to cringe under his disapproving glare. His hair was still blond; his eyes were the same bright blue as her own. His face was fairly weathered, more from the sun than anything else. His reign had been, until now, calm and with little trouble. In fact, the only real issue of his incumbency was his mate’s inability to produce more than one child.

“Daughter,” the king said in a grim voice.

“Hello, Father.”

“I see you’ve managed to make it safely back to the coterie, thanks to Dane.”

Olivia grimaced. “It is not what you think, Father.”

“A shame. Come. Your mother has been beside herself with worry. She’s already planned another half-dozen parties. I have no idea how she will fit them all in before the end of summer.”

The queen of the Lightbearers planned parties as stress relief, and as the solution to the depression she could not shake, over her own inability to bear more than one child. She was mated to a king, and was expected to provide him with a son. She felt personally responsible for the fact that Olivia was their only child.

Sander Bennett gave his daughter one of his king-like disapproving looks and then held open the door so she could precede him into the beach house. He led her upstairs to where her mother sat on a wide, wooden balcony that jutted from her personal sitting room.

“Olivia,” Genevieve let out a small shriek and pulled Olivia into her arms. “Where in the world have you been? I cannot believe you left the coterie. Have you lost your mind? There are all sorts of dangers out there. Shifters come to mind, for one.”

Ho boy, were shifters dangerous. Dangerous for her sensibilities. Dangerous to her virtue. Olivia never knew how much she liked danger, until Tanner stepped into her life.

And then she sobered. Somehow, some way, she had to convince her parents that shifters were not dangerous—at least, the ones she’d brought into the coterie weren’t.

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