Monster of the Dagger Mountains (Killers of the Towers) by Meredith Hart

Author:Meredith Hart [Hart, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vestal Valley Press
Published: 2025-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Kira

IS THIS MAGIC?

After all that, I told Reznyk last night after we stumbled down from the meadow in the glorious haze of a singularly fantastic sunset, you’d better spend the night in the bed with me.

And he did. We fell asleep tangled in each other’s arms, woke in the night for slow, dreamlike sex, and then collapsed once more, the sheets a hopeless tangle around our feet, the gray cat giving us a dirty look from the hearth.

I sigh as early morning light falls through the window to paint the stones of the hearth. I feel strange, light and fluttery, like something with wings is trapped inside my chest and it might just burst into song. Beside me, Reznyk’s dark hair spills over the pillows. His shoulders rise and fall with his breath. I smile as I remember Zayne saying he loves it when they leave in the middle of the night.

Not me. I love it when they stay. What’s better than waking up to find you aren’t alone in the dark?

I pull my arm out of the covers, reach for Reznyk, and then hesitate. The gods only know where he slept after I invited him to travel to the Port of Good Fortune with me, a suggestion that was apparently so offensive that he had to stomp off and curl up in some dark corner for the night.

Some of the fluttery feeling in my chest dissipates. I kick my feet out of the blankets as gently as possible, then step out of bed. There’s a chill in the air this morning, although the sky is clear and the sun will soon chase it away. Still, winter is creeping toward the mountains. What was it the Exemplar said before we left? We have two months until snow closes travel in the Daggers?

And Reznyk probably has no idea what winters are like up here. Hells, the man probably never saw snow until he joined the Towers in Silver City.

I shake my head. I should be basking in the glow of a half-dozen orgasms this morning, damn it. Not lost in a tangle of worries about the future that’s loping toward us like a direwolf with its teeth bared.

I stop at the door and glance back at Reznyk. The sun filters around his shoulders, almost making him glow, and suddenly I remember the golden lights dancing around us in the meadow when we made love, like a private world of stars.

I push the door open, step into the light, and let it close softly behind me. I can’t stop what’s coming any more than I could stop the sun rising this morning. I’m going to the Port. Reznyk is staying here. But he gave me something incredible last night. Whatever happens next, I’ll have that to hold onto.

Still, my throat feels tight and the shimmering flutter in my chest has vanished as I walk across grass thick with dew toward Reznyk’s garden. I decided sometime in the night that I’m not

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