Shadowblade Academy 2: Darkness Rising by KC Kingmaker

Author:KC Kingmaker [Kingmaker, KC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KC Kingmaker
Published: 2022-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Sunny

I DRAGGED MY OBLYX Steel sword across the throat of a man lunging at me with a dagger. The poor son of a bitch dropped with a jet of blood spurting from his carotid.

Turning, I spied Venn putting the finishing touches on another baddie, lighting the man on fire and then dousing him in a flood of water that left the guy a smoldering, ashen carcass.

Quentin punched a dude so hard in the chest he flew backwards into a tree trunk. Leaves fluttered onto his crumpled body as his head sagged, a large indentation in his chest.

Needless to say, we were pissed.

I swiped my sword across the air, swishing blood off the blade. The red fluid glided off like oil on water, and I stared at the shimmering silver steel with an impressed nod.

No one had stolen my Oblyx sword in my hut. They wouldn’t dare. As a vampire, I had been awake during their little burglary attempt. Their pitter-pattering feet hadn’t been quiet enough to stay off my radar. My senses were strong like Dax’s in his panther form, except he’d been high up in a tree where other scents mingled. I had nearly caught that little bastard Pindo as he dashed into the trees with Coralia’s weapon, but he was a slippery fucker.

My eyes scanned the ground and I found his body, half his head demolished by gunshots.

He’d gotten his just desserts in the end.

Cyrus Kilmeade had fled into the trees when the chaos broke out. Pussy. His pretty friend, Riann, had escaped quietly after Dax rescued her ass and she realized Venn, Quen, and I had shown up to save the day.

I had hoped to be able to get along with an arrogant asshole like Cyrus, but apparently there was only room for one conceited bastard in Waichee. He had taken Coralia’s sword with him into the woods, which irked me.

Riann had dropped Venn’s sword while fleeing, likely not wanting to bring evidence of her crime into the village. Venn squatted to pick up the steel.

My eyes widened as a dark shadow moved over his shoulder. “Venn!”

A lone surviving soldier swept a gun off the ground and pointed it at the Unseelie fae.

Without thinking, I submerged myself in a shadow directly to my left, then bolted through the Shadow Realm in the blink of an eye and appeared beside Venn before he even had time to unfold to his full height.

The soldier’s gun went off, sending scared birds cawing into the brightening sky.

I stepped in the trajectory and took it in the shoulder, grunting and staggering back a step.

Venn gasped and caught me by the arms, keeping me upright.

The soldier shot another bullet at me—

A barrier of ice slanted in front of me. It caught the bullet inches before it would have smacked me in the chest. The ice crackled, dusting snowflakes to the ground.

To my right, Quentin lowered his icy hand, then pointed the other one at the soldier, who was half hidden in the tree line, rifle raised to inflict more punishment for killing his allies.

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