Songs of Sacrament (The Siren's Call Book 2) by Nicole Bailey

Author:Nicole Bailey [Bailey, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

LIRA

Water rushed down the side of the temple’s walls, splashing into a pool that lined the hall. Mildew crawled along the stone and moss-covered ledges. The room sat in musty shadows, the stale smell of the water filling everything and infusing the air with moisture.

With my next step, my head ached and vision blurred like it had when I’d tried to use my magic against the merfolk. I shivered at that. For someone who’d not grown up around magic, the merfolk terrified me. I’d once thought sirens were evil, but I was starting to believe my scope to judge by was limited.

During the attack, I’d stumbled, but Sai caught me.

I peeked out the side of my eyes at him. He kept his focus ahead of us, his dark hair still gleaming from when he’d dived in to help Neia save Elisa. My heart skipped a beat when he did that. For a moment I’d imagined him gone forever, lost to the sea and dark magic.

Something about that made me want to scream, drown with him, curse the world if it took him from me.

Then he’d walked through those temple doors. I’d wondered how I might feel if he couldn’t make it through the barrier. Then he stepped through and stared at me like he’d found a ghost inside. I was his Atalla. It seemed neither of us knew what to do with that information. I, for one, didn’t know what it meant exactly but the way the group had appraised us when we emerged left a bad feeling quelling in my stomach. The same people who had shrugged off our marriage vows stared at us as if we’d entered heaven and not some decrepit ruin together.

Jessamine had scowled, though. The memory of her handsy nature with Sai caused magic to sweep through my chest and whirl down my arms which made me dizzy again and I stumbled. Sai shifted towards me, like he was attuned to me, and reached out like he’d steady me, but I regained my footing and stepped over a broken stone on the floor.

As long as he was focused on me, we might as well talk. The water roared so that I had to raise my voice when I spoke. “Jessamine seemed extremely familiar with you.”

Sai hesitated a moment as he clambered over a fallen pillar that had broken into half a dozen pieces. He waited for me to climb over as well and we both ducked under vines. “You don’t have to worry about anything with Jessamine,” he finally answered. “That was in the past.”

“Who said I was worried?” My feelings were mixed up, but I didn’t want Sai getting false ideas. I didn’t know what we were to each other besides a massive prophetical entanglement. We stepped through a doorway and into an even larger room. Sunlight poured in through high windows and past slivers of the broken ceiling in ivory shafts of light that cut through the cool blue of the shadows. Stone pillars arced in a circle around the room.

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