Jagged Sword by Melle Amade

Author:Melle Amade [Amade, Melle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

6

“For fuck’s sake,” Davin’s voice was drowned out by the remnants of the wooden door flying across the room and slamming into the walls.

“Did you find her?” I asked dodging to the side as Patch lunged at me. I glanced over to gauge Davin’s response.

A swift nod was all I needed as she drew her blades and squared off against Polaris.

“Just go,” I said, my gaze darting to the open window.

“They’ll kill you!” She exclaimed as both bears began to shift into their animal forms.

“They won’t,” I said with more confidence than I felt. “Go get her. I’ll find you later.”

Polaris sprang towards her but she side-swiped him, launching herself to the window and pushing it up as she lept onto the ledge. “Harmenszoon,” was all she said as she jumped, shifting into a massive black raven almost instantly and disappearing into the cloudy Amsterdam sky.

I crammed the word into my memory as both bears turned on me. Patch let out a massive roar and didn’t stop as he charged towards me swinging a gigantic paw and catching me upside the head. I flew through the air, smashing into the far wall. My head cracking in agony as I crumbled to the floor, the wind knocked out of me.

I gasped through the pain, forcing air into my lungs as I figured out another tactic. They had size on their side, but I had speed. There was little room to move but I dashed forward as if to enter the jaws of Patch but at the last minute I dropped, slid under his body, pulling out the kris at the last second and sliding it along his inner thigh. There was no way I could gut him, if I had he would have collapsed on me and I would have been pinned down, easy prey for Polaris to uncover. Patch howled as blood poured out of his sliced leg and I gave it a sharp kick to open the wound, springing off his bone and plummeting towards the narrow stairwell that led to the street.

Both would be forced to shift to human form. Patch to heal his leg faster and Polaris to fit into the narrow Dutch stairwell. I lept off the top step, shifting midair to land nimbly on the first landing. In giant bounds I raced down flight after flight. No matter how fast the northern Berzerken was as a human, he was no match for me in full leopard escape mode. I pushed down the distaste that this was twice in twenty-four hours I’d been forced to flee instead of fight.

But this time, I didn’t want to completely escape. I needed to make sure I wasn’t leading them anywhere near Davin and where she was headed.

In fact, I needed to get them to move in the exact opposite direction.

Harmenszoon. That was the word Davin had said before she had flown out the window. She was clever that Irish girl. There weren’t many who would know what that word meant.

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