Out of Embers and Shadows: Book 1 of the Shadowfire Series by Shelby Oval

Author:Shelby Oval [Oval, Shelby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: selfpublishing.com
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26:

A Pirate’s Crime

Lora

The pirate had been foolish in the beginning to lie to her when she had asked him if he had sold her out. He was foolish now for thinking he could get away with it. It had taken two precise slices to his arms with the dagger Kalon hadn’t taken from her, for him to start bleeding out. He probably had about three minutes left if he didn’t apply the appropriate pressure. But Lora wasn’t ready for him to die yet.

Her shadows pushed at the gaping wounds, keeping the blood loss to a trickle as she pushed the fucker through the opening to the deck above. She didn’t care that he’d sold her out, not really. But the pirates seemed to think that she had summoned the Shade ship as some trick, and that would not do. Oh no, he needed to admit to the whole crew that he was the reason their three comrades had died—then, she’d kill him.

Lora had pinned the pirate to the mast of the ship, her shadows holding his blood in his body, as well as him to the mast.

“What the hell?” she heard someone say as feet shuffled away from the middle of the deck.

“Tell them,” she said quietly, but not weakly. She was expending a gross amount of power to keep him in place in the broad daylight, and she couldn’t take her attention off him, or her shadows might falter. Because of that, she wasn’t sure who all was watching, but judging by the collective inhale, it was a good majority of the crew.

“Tell us what?” Finch. Good, it would be easier if he heard it himself.

“The truth,” she offered, her gaze locked on the bloody pirate in front of her.

When no one said anything, she pushed a bit harder on the shadows around his throat and wrists. “Tell them,” she repeated a bit louder. “Tell them how you sold us all out so that the Shades knew exactly where to find us,” she shouted, anger causing her shadows to pulse as she spoke. The asshole just stared at her, refusing to speak.

“It will be hard for him to admit anything if he cannot breathe.” Finch sounded closer now.

Lora’s hand twitched, but she eased the tension in his throat just a fraction. “Tell. Them.” Her temper grew, but her strength began to fade. She could feel people around her shifting into defensive positions, their shadows on the deck from the dying sun telling her as much. Lora threw up a wall of shadows around the boat, and the display of power was enough to have most of the crew gasping and fleeing from the area.

There was movement to her left that put Kalon in her peripheral view. He was calm and collected, and merely nodded, though she wasn’t sure what the hell that was supposed to mean.

“Captain,” she heard him say, his voice projecting to somewhere beyond her vision. “Lora seems to have done you a service in finding

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