Kissed by Fire by Michelle Fox

Author:Michelle Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dragon romance, witch psychic siren elf fairy queen werewolf dragon lion shapeshifter paranormal romance mystery thr, mermaid, titan, the little mermaid, pisces, zodiac shifters
Publisher: Michelle Fox
Published: 2017-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

After Alec and Sara left—both casting worried looks our way as they went—the sheik, grabbed Niall's chain and pulled him off balance until he fell to his knees. "You should be setting me on fire. Why aren't you?"

"They gave me something that stopped it," Niall said, so convincing I even believed his lie for a second. "I canna fight you bound in these chains and with no flame to call my own."

The sheik looked unhappy. "If they have damaged you in some way, they'll pay for it. I need healthy specimens, not sick ones. Stand up."

Niall climbed to his feet. Instead of his natural grace, he took the time to be clumsy and off balance.

"And you." The sheik turned to me. "I need you to sing. If you do well, you'll earn your way out of those chains." He snapped his fingers, and a dark shadow entered the room long before the being it belonged to arrived.

As it stretched taller and wider, nerves fluttered in my stomach. Who else had the sheik forced into his menagerie, and were they friend or foe?

The large...thing—I didn't know what to call it— wasn't human, but other than that, I couldn't name it. My language ability failed me. The massive form that lumbered its way through the door had the width and breadth of a baby whale. He didn't stand, he loomed head and shoulders above us all, ducking so that his upper body curved along the ceiling. Thick muscles filled his brown frame, bigger than any I'd ever seen. His face was square with deep set eyes and featured a flat nose, that smushed into his face as if maybe it had met an accident at some time in the past. His mouth a thin line, he nodded to the sheik.

"Take her to the tank." The sheik pointed to me. "And keep her gagged."

"Yes master." He reached toward me with hands the size of man o'wars.

I shrank away from him, afraid of his touch, but he was gentle with me. He lifted me with care and hoisted me over his shoulder, stooping down even lower so I would clear the ceiling.

"What are you?" Niall asked, his eyes wide.

"He's a tree troll from Scandinavia," answered the sheik. "Very rare and almost extinct now."

"How many different beings are here?"

"Almost five hundred."

Niall shot me a horrified look. I felt much the same.

"You tend to collect things the longer you live." The sheik shrugged. "Of course, not everyone has survived. If you count the living, I have only a hundred."

"What happened to the others?" asked Niall.

"They died. I had them preserved. Perhaps someday you will be able to see them. I have monsters who haven't breathed on this earth for over a century." He gave a short laugh."I've learned that legends and myths are often made up of the dead. Neither of you should even exist, but yet here you are. Your lives will be put to good use here."

The sheik shook the chain. "Now come. I have plans tonight.

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