Monsters in the Museum: A Contemporary Fantasy Romance (Defenders of the Light Book 1) by S.C. Grayson

Author:S.C. Grayson [Grayson, S.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter fourteen

Nora choked before whispering, “I’m glad that Ezra convinced me to bring you along as a guard.”

Her heart hammered so hard that it might have been fighting to get out of her ribcage, and her skin crawled as she watched the creature claw its way up the wing of the plane, getting closer to the main body by the second.

Adam glanced around frantically.

“By the Titans’ tentacled testicles!” He swore loudly enough to wake up their row mate, an elderly lady whose eyes went wide with shock as she glared at him.

“Sorry, just realized I forgot something,” he offered by way of explanation. That satisfied her as she closed her eyes again and Adam turned back to Nora.

“I don’t have a weapon with me,” he whispered into her ear, making Nora draw back in shock, doing nothing to help her still accelerating heart rate.

“You’re supposed to be my guard and you didn’t bring anything to fight with?”

Adam shushed Nora, her rising hysteria having made her careless with her volume.

“I can’t exactly get a sword through airport security. Not to mention, the Shadow hasn’t attacked you while you’ve had a guard before. We figured just having one of us here must be the equivalent of a nuclear deterrent for them.”

“Did you just compare yourself to a nuclear weapon when you didn’t even have the sense to bring anything to use to protect yourself?” Nora hissed.

Adam chanced a glance out the window toward where the Shadow was halfway up the wing, “Now is not the time for scolding, Nora. We need solutions.”

Nora furrowed her brow as she observed the creature’s progress. “It won’t be able to get inside the plane anyway, will it? The fuselage is designed to be airtight.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure. That is a Shadow born of wind and storm, and they don’t have a particularly high regard for the laws of physics. What I need is something to fight it with.”

Nora wracked her brains.

“Coffee pot? You could smash it and use one of the shards as a dagger?” she suggested.

Adam nodded. “Maybe we should have let you continue to use household objects as weapons. I’ll go to the galley in the back to grab it, but I need you to create a distraction so the flight attendant who’s back there doesn’t stop me.”

Before Nora could ask what he had in mind for a distraction, he was out of his seat and striding to the back of the cabin. The creature was mere feet away from the body of the plane, and she unbuckled her seatbelt as quickly as she could, improvising as she went. The sudden spike in adrenaline made her fingers as useful as raw sausages, but she freed herself and launched into the aisle.

She hesitated a moment before doing the first thing she thought of that would get everybody’s attention and not end with her in handcuffs. She gave a dramatic gasp before crumpling to the floor as loudly as possible in her best impression of a faint.

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