Master of Honor by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight [Knight, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009283-03006
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2020-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

This was bad. Kel’s other form was a dragon, and the seven-pound cat on Cheryl’s chest turned into an eight-hundred-pound Mageverse tiger. Among other things. She eyed Smoke warily. “So how worried should I be that you two show up when Adam and Ulf are in the Daysleep? Just what is the magical equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition?”

“Don’t worry, we’re a lot more subtle than that,” the cat said.

When she stiffened, Kel rolled his eyes. “Oh, calm down, child. We have no intention of hurting you.”

“People keep telling me that. I keep not believing them.” Cheryl picked up the cat as if he was the house pet he appeared and slid off the bed, automatically cuddling him in her arms. She’d always loved cats.

Kel tensed, and those red eyes took on a menacing glint. “Put Smoke down.”

She froze, then slowly lowered the cat the floor. “I wouldn’t hurt him.”

“Of course not,” Smoke said. He was evidently playing Good Cop in today’s festivities. “Let’s take a walk.” He turned and trotted toward the door.

Cheryl swallowed, straightened her long shirt, and followed his inky tail. Every muscle in her back tensed as Kel rose and strode after her. Her mind babbled, Forty feet of fire breathing lizard, forty feet of fire breathing lizard…

It took all her self-control not to look over her shoulder.

* * *

Cheryl looked down at the intricate magic circle and took an involuntary step back. “Oh, hell no.”

“It’s not going to hurt you,” Smoke told her, his tone patient.

“Yeah, calling bullshit,” she muttered, eying the symbols painted on the floor. Her Gaia memories identified them as a mix of Sidhe, Magekind and draconic sigils. Gaia, what kind of spell is that?

No answer. Hell, her head almost echoed. If she hadn’t known better, she’d have thought the goddess/ghost/weapon had gone off to haunt some other poor bitch, leaving Cheryl to face the Magekind Inquisition all by herself. Thanks a lot.

She glanced around, automatically looking for an escape. They’d conducted her to the Majae’s Hall, an immense gothic stone pile of a building where the witches kept their magical libraries and labs. This one was located deep below ground. Which wasn’t ominous at all.

As if Smoke and Kel didn’t have her thoroughly outgunned all by themselves, they’d been joined by Morgana le Fay and Eva Roman, Smoke’s wife. Apparently the kitty’s third form was a hot Sidhe warrior.

Cheryl eyed Eva warily. The pretty, brown-eyed brunette had manifested a pair of ghostly stag horns with little sparks leaping between the tines. Which was even more weird when you considered Eva was a werewolf. A decade ago, during the battle with a werewolf sorcerer named Warlock, she’d merged with Zephyr, a powerful elemental who inhabited the body of a stag. Then Warlock ate him, and Eva had merged with Zephyr’s vengeful ghost, gaining both horns and impressive powers.

Between Kel, Smoke, Morgana, and Eva, Cheryl was beginning to feel like Custer at the Little Big Horn. So no, she wasn’t stepping into that fricking circle.

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