Temple of Magic and Bone : An Inferno Universe Story (The Inferno Universe) by Thorn Alessa

Author:Thorn, Alessa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thornstar Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: 2024-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Vanth felt like his bones were going to crawl out of his skin. He had to keep walking, keep breathing, keep his eyes off Elektra. Vanth had never been quick to violence, but it had taken all his control not to let his magic rip the two fae males to pieces. It wasn't like him at all. Elektra was a better fighter than he was. She didn't need his protection. She certainly wouldn't welcome the possessiveness he had no right to feel toward her.

Fae genes, fae genes, fae genes, he chanted to himself over and over. The alternative was that he was a raging dick. He had never been that way over anyone before. He hated the other males who controlled their partners, and he swore never to become one of them. Elektra hadn't kicked his ass into next week, so he would count his blessings and keep his mouth shut until they got back to Inferno.

Vanth knew the second they had stepped out of Faerie and back into the human world because his connection to his ghouls lit up in his mind like a magical flare. There had been no gateway or stone circle or any obvious door.

He looked at the ring on his finger. Maybe it found the nearest weak place between worlds and sent them through it? He shook his head and tried not to worry about it. If he survived the fight with Lazarus, he would be able to return to Faerie and ask Flynt.

They found his van ten minutes later. It was covered in a dusting of light-yellow pollen but otherwise looked in one piece. His ghouls were in the forest, eating gods knew what. Vanth tugged on the magic binding them, and they shuffled out of the trees minutes later.

"For fuck's sake, look at the state of you two," he complained, staring at the mud and blood that covered their fronts. He would have to get them some clean clothes once they had rested. They looked stuffed and slow from eating. He probably should have been more concerned about what they had found to gnaw on, but he had bigger problems. Starting with the reaper in his car. He locked the ghouls into the back of the van and climbed into the driver's seat.

Elektra was already on the passenger side, one leg drawn up to her chest and her gray eyes distant. Vanth pushed down all his worried feelings. She would talk to him when she was ready to.

The sun was going down in the city, and the time differences between Faerie and the human world were unpredictable at best. Vanth was wired, his magic dancing incessantly under his skin.

"I was seventeen when I first went to the temple," Elektra said, breaking the heavy silence in the cab. "My father and mother had already arranged a marriage for me. I was royal, so that's not uncommon. For other females, it's different. I don't know if you know this, but fae women go through certain hormonal cycles that can occur between the ages of twenty and fifty.

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