Nebulous: A Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy (Dragon's Creed Book 2) by Katie French & Ingrid Seymour

Author:Katie French & Ingrid Seymour [French, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I sat on the front steps of Aunt Scarlett’s rented house, staring at the twinkling lake surface in the distance. Leaves rustled overhead from the gentle breeze, while the sun did its best to rise above the trees. Its angle made me realize it was quickly rushing toward noon.

The eggs Aunt Scarlett had forced me to eat churned in my stomach. I’d even forsaken my morning coffee, barely able to handle the thought of it—which was all the same since I was going to die. Life without my only drug wasn’t worth living, anyway.

But what if you don’t? Frank didn’t, a sadistic part of my mind said.

I shook my head.

No. “Monster” isn’t an option.

Death was preferable to that.

As embarrassed as I was to admit it, I had avoided Frank while he’d been on Mirror Island. I simply hadn’t been brave enough to face him. It didn’t help that he’d become as skittish as a feral cat, hiding from all, except Ki’s father, who had tested the lengths of his knowledge trying to help the deformed boy.

Still, even though I’d avoided Frank and tried to get rid of the memory of his transformed body, the image remained there, imprinted like a damn photograph. His hunched-over form as he walked on four legs, the few tuffs of dry hair left of his head, his claw-like, twisted hands. It was all there.

Not a dragon. Only the mutated shell of a human.

Was that what I would become?

A nebulous creature everyone avoided.

The front door opened behind me. I swatted the tears away from my face, swallowing the knot in my throat.

“There you are.” Ki bounced down the steps, then sat next to me. “You were supposed to go back to bed,” he added, saying nothing about my tears. “Scarlett Warden’s orders.”

“I’m not staying here,” I said. That was exactly why I’d come to wait by the front steps, so the boys wouldn’t try to leave without me.

Ki sighed. “I was afraid you would say that. Is there no way I can convince you to stay and rest?”

“No.”

“Not even if I promise to take you out on a date after all of this is over?”

My eyes darted to his in surprise. A date? My stomach fluttered as if my pixies had gone from building protective armor to swooning inside my gut.

“This is no time to joke,” I managed.

“I’m not joking,” Ki said, appearing as serious as I’d ever seen him.

Ki wanted to go on a date with me. I might figuratively die. Exhaling my deranged pixies in one long breath, I came back down to earth.

“Even if you promise me… that,” I said, unable to repeat the date part.

He assented, not seeming rebuffed, just understanding. Only Ki.

We were silent for a moment, then I asked, “Are all other beacons like my lighthouse?”

Earlier, when my aunt explained the situation, I’d been too overwhelmed to think straight. Now, after several minutes of sitting out here, my mind had begun to clear and the inevitable questions popped up.

“What do you mean?” Ki asked.

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