Tales of the Djinn: The City of Endless Night by Emma Holly

Author:Emma Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: genie, angel, djinn, sultan, magic, threesome, fantasy romance, paranormal romance
Publisher: Emma Holly
Published: 2017-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

THEY DRAGGED THE BUNK mattresses to the floor to lay together, the same as they had in the power plant. Understandably tired, they slept a couple hours. Though Georgie didn’t hear the cell door hiss open, the guard clanging his metal truncheon against the wall was an effective alarm bell.

She bolted up with the blanket clutched to her nakedness.

The look the guard shot their tangled arrangement was too bored to be a leer. “Get dressed. You three are being moved.”

Iksander didn’t ask where, so she figured she shouldn’t either. The guard’s jaded attitude aside, she preferred to pull on her clothes without his eyes on her. Once in the bathroom, her alertness switched on enough to kick herself. They could have spent the night forming plans. Instead, they’d had sex and slept.

The fact that it had been really good sex didn’t make up for the lapse.

Today—if it was day—they weren’t chained together and only had four escorts. Regrettably, the warren of halls the guards led them through kept them from grasping how the location was laid out. She couldn’t grasp it anyway. Maybe Connor and Iksander had better mental GPS.

At the end of the final hall, a granite arch set off an ornamented brass double door. Posted before this exit were four additional djinn. They wore black and silver striped uniforms. The style reminded her of Swiss guards at the Vatican.

“Official transport,” the leader of their escort barked. “Per order of our esteemed regents.”

He handed over a fancy scroll. One of the Swiss guards examined it, nodded to his companions, at which signal the four djinn stepped aside as one. The broad brass doors swung open without anyone touching them. The potent outrush of magic—threshold protection spells, she supposed—caused the hairs on her nape to rise.

If this display was meant to overawe, it did the trick for her.

She followed the guards hesitantly through.

“Wow,” Connor said beside her.

Georgie stopped in her tracks. They’d entered a literally dazzling space, so bedecked with gold and mirrors, with crystal torchieres and tall blazing windows that her eyes couldn’t add up the images. She closed her mouth and swallowed, trying to make a coherent picture form. The floor was multi-hued inlaid marble, the ceiling a muralled vault overhead. The massive chandeliers dangling from it would have crushed elephants. Fist-sized gems spangled everywhere, casting uncountable reflections. The actual lights were magic-powered. The air was thick with spellwork, the prickle she’d felt at the door a pale precursor.

Her ability to speak returned haltingly. “This is like Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors times umpteen.”

“Sunshine,” Iksander breathed in a similar tone. He waved weakly toward a long march of windows. The brightness that flooded through them did appear to be daylight, the first she’d seen since arriving in this city.

Like moths, they went to it. Their escort didn’t stop them. Maybe stupefied admiration was encouraged. The building they’d been brought to enclosed a courtyard as long on its sides as a football field. From their vantage on the second floor, the pavers below formed an ornately scrolled pattern.

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