Somber Resplendence by Mandy M Roth

Author:Mandy M Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Aland sat in the passenger side of the unmarked SUV and stared out at the darkened city streets. Sirius sat next to him, munching on a chicken salad sandwich his wife had packed for him. “Think this asshole will show himself?”

The asshole Aland was referring to was a man they’d been watching for several months. Neither really cared if they busted the guy or not now that the fact renegade warriors from their realm were on the loose—all else seemed almost trivial.

“Do anything interesting lately?” Sirius asked, his gaze saying he knew more than he was letting on.

Aland shrugged, unsure he wanted to reveal he’d gone to see Sidney. They’d discussed it and had decided to wait and release Sidney together—with Phoebe and Heather in tow. The idea had seemed like a decent one at the time but the more Aland thought about Sidney rotting away in a mental ward, the less he could tolerate waiting until they formed a plan. With Heather being out of town, he didn’t want to wait for her return or for anyone else to get together and decide what was best for his mate. That was his job. “No. Nothing exciting.”

“Hmm.” Sirius took a sip of bottled water and cast a sideways glance at Aland.

“Sure about that?”

Aland let out a long breath. “Spit it out.”

“You went to see Sidney, didn’t you?”

Denying it was pointless. “Yes.”

“Go well for you?”

Aland clenched his fist. “Seeing as how she’s not with me at the moment, no. Didn’t go so well.”

Sirius choked on his water and pounded on his chest. “Guess not.”

Rubbing his hands over his face, Aland thought back to Sidney. “You should see her, wasting away in there. It took everything in me not to pick her up and carry her out.”

“Why didn’t you?”

He glanced at his friend. “Because your words of wisdom played in the back of my mind, warning me of the consequences of her vanishing from there. You’re right. I don’t need the humans on a manhunt for an escaped mental patient. An APB on my mate would be the topper on all this, for sure.” He grunted, hating having to bend on the matter when all he wanted to do was say fuck the system. It wasn’t that easy.

Sirius chucked him on the shoulder. “That was smart.”

Aland laughed, nervous energy abounding. “Man, you should have seen some of the people in there. One guy spends his days looking for his pet dragon. Another thinks he’s a superhero.”

Sirius was silent for a moment. “What about Sidney? Has ten years in there left her…”

It would have been easy to take offense to Sirius’ question, but Aland didn’t. They’d been friends too long, been through too many battles to let something like that come between them. “I honestly don’t know. I don’t think so. But she’s damn manipulative.

It’s like…” He paused. “Like she almost wants to stay there.”

“She’s had ten years to create a safe zone, a place she can do what she needs to do to stay protected from the renegades.

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