Tempest's Fury by Nicole Peeler

Author:Nicole Peeler [Peeler, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780316128117
Google: LgLmLPJbRWUC
Amazon: 0316128112
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2012-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

He might have been smelly and blessed with a singularly unpleasant character, but Hiral was an excellent spy. Having realized there was no other way, he’d used the chaos of his ransoming to steal the pages from the stolen book, with which Morrigan never otherwise parted. She’d only given it to one of her most trusted henchmen after stepping out of the limo they’d driven to the pier, knowing that she was probably going to go dragon and dragons don’t have pockets.

After she’d made that hand-off, and the chaos of the battle had started, it had been child’s play for Hiral to pinch the book off the guard, rip out the pages he knew were important, and put the book back where it belonged. If all went well, Morrigan wouldn’t even notice anything was missing until we’d foiled all of her evil schemes.

Before the gwyllion had gotten captured, however, he’d made a few more important discoveries.

“Jarl is Morrigan’s prisoner?” I asked, incredulously.

“Aye. He’s treated like a guest, but the kind of guest who’s not allowed to leave the room or go anywhere without guards. And he’s not the arrogant shite that led in your Compound, either. He’s terrified.”

“What happened to scare him like that?” Blondie asked. Hiral snorted.

“I’d think my lover becoming a bloody great dragon might have that effect.”

“No,” I said, the truth popping up its head and giving me a raspberry. “It’s obvious, isn’t it? Morrigan’s the Red Queen, but Jarl’s still Jarl.”

“And the Red Queen needs her king,” Anyan said, running his fingers through his shaggy hair. My own fingers itched to do that for him.

“Which is why they needed the book,” Blondie added, pulling me back to the conversation.

Magog nodded as we talked, but Gog looked confused, bless him.

“What’s going on?” he asked, when it was obvious more clarification wouldn’t be forthcoming, otherwise.

“They must have been able to cobble together enough of the remains of the Red Queen to transfer her power to Morrigan. Morrigan must have been willing to let the Red in. Maybe she didn’t know how thoroughly it would take control,” Blondie explained to the coblynau, patiently.

“But Jarl saw what happened to Morrigan, and he’s no longer quite so willing to become the White King. And they obviously don’t have enough of the White, yet, to make the transfer. That’s why they needed the book, to find the missing pieces.”

“So we’ve got to stop them from finding those pieces,” Gog said. “And save Jarl from becoming the White.”

I made a face. “I wouldn’t refer to it as ‘saving Jarl,’ ” I said.

“But that’s what we’d be doing, Jane,” Anyan said. “He’ll face another sort of justice, if we succeed, but we do have to save him from Morrigan.”

“Why don’t we just kill him?” I suggested, unapologetically and ruthlessly.

“I doubt Morrigan actually needs to use Jarl for the White, although she obviously wants to. If we kill him, she’ll just find another vessel. We need to focus our energies on finding the missing

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