Ishtar's Legacy by Rachel Sullivan

Author:Rachel Sullivan [Sullivan, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949090444
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2019-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

My phone vibrated in my pocket. The Wild Women lingering around the fridge didn’t even look my way when I left the kitchen and walked out to the front yard. The grounds looked more like a park than someone’s yard, with tall hedge-type trees blocking the view of the road and absorbing the sounds of car engines along with it. I waited until the front door closed and was at least ten feet behind me before digging the phone out of my pocket. These Wild Women had super hearing and I didn’t need them listening in on my conversation. Since Faline’s capture, her coterie reached a tension level I’d never seen before, which didn’t bode well for my Hunter side.

“Marcus?” the Hunter on the other end of the line whispered, his voice echoing enough to make me think he called from a bathroom.

“Who is this?” I asked the person on the other end of the line, just to be sure. The number was one I recognized, a rogue Hunter from the North Carolina complex who’d been talking to Rod. Rod had given me the guy’s number and instructed me to wait for his call of confirmation.

“You were right. She understood the code question,” the man said, his voice low and deep.

I’d never spoken to him personally before. We’d gone through Rod. But if his size matched his voice, Faline was in good hands, because size mattered when it came to Hunters.

“So then it’s confirmed. She’s at your complex,” I stated. I exhaled and closed my eyes. Fuck.

While I’d left the beliefs of Hunters behind, especially those involving a woman’s place in the world and in a relationship, my DNA couldn’t help but hold an unbreakable claim on the woman I loved. According to the most basic instincts pulsing within me, Faline Frey was my partner, my female, and the one life I was compelled to protect at all costs. Nearly everything in me demanded that I hunt down and torture each and every being involved with her absence.

Couple the huldra’s anxiety levels with my need to hunt my enemies, and each second was a match waiting to be lit in a room full of gasoline.

“She is,” he started. “We were able to connect her to her mother this morning. She’ll have to take it from there.”

My eyes flung open. “Her mother’s there?”

“Yes, and a harpy.”

“Well, shit.” I paced to the line of tree hedges, thinking. I rubbed at a bruise on my forearm, courtesy of Aleksander. The incubi leader and I couldn’t be in the same room since Faline had been taken. We’d tried once and almost killed each other. While I couldn’t rely on that guy, I also couldn’t deny I needed backup. “Rod tells me you’ve got your own army.”

“I’d hardly call it an army, but our ranks are growing,” the Hunter responded. I hadn’t asked his name and I didn’t plan on it either. Not until we met in person. He needed to feel safe in helping my Faline.

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