Ruins (Wings 'N' Wands Book 1) by AJ Sherwood & Jocelynn Drake

Author:AJ Sherwood & Jocelynn Drake [Sherwood, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

His trainer was a liar.

“Don’t worry, you’ll be in great shape for scaling a mountain. You won’t have any trouble at all.”

Todd was a buff liar who had clearly never climbed a fucking mountain in his life.

If Samuel wasn’t sure he was going to die up here, he’d go straight home and kick Todd’s ass.

But it wasn’t just the dense foliage, rocky terrain, and deadly spiders that didn’t give a shit about dragons. It was the unrelenting heat and humidity. The only time Samuel wasn’t swimming in his own sweat was at night when he wrapped himself around the air-conditioned body pillow named Dimitri.

Sadly, there had been zero fooling around since their one hook-up, and it was all his fault. Each night, he crawled into his tent, body full of aching muscles and bug bites, and collapsed. He was unconscious the second his head touched the pillow. In the morning, he woke to Dimitri shaking him, whispering the world’s sweetest words: “Coffee’s ready.”

They’d left the thin trail—if you wanted to be daring and call it a trail—behind three days ago and had been cutting through the thick growth with machetes. It was incredibly slow going through the jungle as they worked steadily higher, trimming back the greenery and avoiding the local wildlife, while at the same time checking for any signs of either the Sousa or the Tupã. There hadn’t been many. Over the past four days, they’d located only a couple of carvings in rocks that looked to be symbols from the Sousa language, but even those had been so weathered and worn away Samuel hadn’t been able to read them.

The signs should have been heartening, but they sent a shiver of fear through him. What if the notes and artifacts left behind were too damaged for him to read? Five centuries had passed since anyone had seen them. They had been living in a mountainous region that saw constant rainfall and humidity with the chance of flooding and landslides. What he was searching for could be completely lost to time. What was the chance any of it was preserved?

Egyptologists had it easy. The dry desert preserved everything. Why couldn’t the Sousa have lived in the desert?

Of course, that would have meant he’d be trekking through the scorching desert right now. Sand would be everywhere. In every hole and crevice. Ew.

“We got another knot!” Gregori shouted ahead of the group.

Samuel tipped his head back and closed his eyes, feeling the sweat on his forehead slip down his temples and into his hair. “Oh, thank god,” he whispered to himself. A knot meant they’d hit a tangle of vines and bushes that required a brief halt to the march so a team could hack an opening big enough for them to pass through.

At first, Samuel had been incredibly grateful the dragons had allowed him to serve in the rotation. He’d wanted to feel like he was pulling his weight and not slacking because he was surrounded by powerful dragons who could do it ten times faster.

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