Marked by Magic: An Urban Fantasy Adventure (Tracking Trouble Book 1) by Buroker Lindsay

Author:Buroker, Lindsay [Buroker, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lindsay Buroker
Published: 2023-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

18

Arwen woke with a start before dawn. Her heart hammered in her chest, as it so often did when she had nightmares, but she hadn’t been dreaming of her past or anything scary. No, she’d dreamed about Starblade in his underground pool, naked, handsome, and… arguing with her about mushroom substrates. She was fairly certain dreams about naked men were supposed to turn erotic, but maybe her inexperience in that area meant her subconscious mind didn’t have enough to work with. Or maybe something had woken her before things could go in that direction.

Not that she wanted to have erotic dreams about an overpowered half-dragon who didn’t trust her. They would just be an improvement over her usual nightmares.

A whisper of something plucked at her senses, and she sat up, listening and stretching out with her awareness. Maybe her hammering heart hadn’t had anything to do with dreams.

As she groped to pinpoint what she’d felt, she checked the time. 3 AM. She’d intended to get up early to cut kale and arugula to go with the asparagus she’d harvested for the market that day, and she needed to weed the greens, but it wouldn’t be light for a couple more hours.

The hint of magic came again, something feline, something dangerous.

The shifters?

Shit.

She sensed Tigris on the road in front of the farm, and she didn’t think he was alone, though his buddies were using their magic to cloak their auras.

Arwen rolled out of bed, Starblade’s words coming to mind, his promise that he would know where she was—and if she was chatting up his enemies.

“It won’t be by choice,” she said.

Though she hurried to dress, she did pause to look at her forearm, hoping the dragon tattoo had been a part of her dreams. Hoping that whole conversation had.

No. It glowed violet on her arm. His mark.

Her spider tattoo had never glowed, and it didn’t now, but she again had the feeling that it didn’t approve of this new competing mark.

“Let’s hope the shifters don’t want to tattoo me too.”

What could they want? Why come in the middle of the night? To threaten her father again? Or her? Could they know she’d made a deal with Starblade? How? It had only been a few hours, and she was positive he wouldn’t have told them.

Well, no. If they’d come after him, he might have. Maybe he’d smugly informed them that he’d convinced her to switch sides, and she was working for him now.

“I hope not.”

As soon as she dressed, stuffed her feet in her moccasins, and pulled her hair into a ponytail, she grabbed her bow and quiver. Her senses told her Tigris was coming up the road along with another shifter, both in feline form. True to his name, Tigris had turned into a tiger. His buddy was a lion.

Arwen ran out the door, afraid they would go to her father’s house first. He would wake up if they made any noise, she had no doubt, but since he was fully human, he didn’t have the ability to detect magic.

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