Sarazen's Hunt by Isabel Wroth

Author:Isabel Wroth [Wroth, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isabel Wroth
Published: 2018-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

Alec didn’t bother to hide her expression when Kalix landed the transport inside the mountain fortress, noticing the presence of only two warriors instead of the entire squad she had been greeted with last time.

Kalix set his palm to her waist to urge her forward, Zhenya bouncing alongside her with a grin on his face while he looked around at the citadel.

The kid was fascinated by everything, head on a swivel at all times, drinking in everything almost ravenously.

It made Alec almost smile, reaching out to grab him by the back of his tunic to keep him from falling over while he was looking straight up at the ceiling and all the carvings in the stone.

“We won’t be meeting with the Asho until tomorrow morning. Ne’tare has situated us in our previous guest quarters, and we’ve been invited to join the evening meal with the other mated pairs in residence.”

Zhenya gave a sideways skip, “Can I go?”

Secretly, Alec adored the look Kalix shot the kid. “You were invited as well, cub. Yes.”

Having never been to what sounded like a fancy affair to Zhenya, naturally he asked Kalix all about it the entire walk up to their quarters.

*****

It was difficult to sleep inside the cavernous rooms. They felt too much like a tomb. Alec hadn’t ever been inside a tomb before, but she remembered the horror vids shown every Friday night in the dining hall on Moika with uncomfortable detail.

This place, as luxurious and comfortable as it was made to appear, was still a cave buried deep inside a mountain.

Most of the hybrids living here now had spent the majority of their lives on board a starship, so cramped quarters were familiar to them.

To Alec, she couldn’t think of anything more hellish.

She tried to think of anything else to combat the crushing darkness. Her mind rolled backwards and forwards, searching for anything to latch onto.

She longed to be back in the forest, high in the trees, close to the air and sky. Where she could run, fight if she had to.

Here, there was no space to do anything other than be cornered.

“It takes time.” Kalix’s voice drifted from the depths of the shadows, making her already thundering pulse leap and crash against her ribs.

“W-what?” Alec felt her beast shift inside her, blink, and she suddenly saw in streams of heat. Yellows, greens, reds.

She saw the enormous bulk that was Kalix sitting not far from the bed. Unsure how she had stumbled on this weird new ability, she waited to see if it was just a fluke.

“More time than you think for the urge to run, to fight your way out of what your mind tells you is a dangerous situation, isn’t the first instinct that comes out in the dark. Do you need some air?”

“Ah... yes. Air. Um, I can see you.”

Kalix tilted his head curiously, his features plain as day. “See me?”

“Something happened to my eyes. I see you, like I’m looking through a thermal readout display.” She saw Kalix blink and a shine came over his eyeballs.

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