The Blighted Sky: MM Paranormal Romance (Chronicles of the Veil Book 3) by Lionel Hart

Author:Lionel Hart [Hart, Lionel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

Florian wasn’t sure if it was good luck or not, but the rest of the day passed uneventfully. There were no further signs of the lion-dogs in the air or on the ground, and they made good time on the smooth, hard-packed dirt. But every so often, he had a strong sense of being watched. He couldn’t stop himself from looking over his shoulder and in all directions, and after the third or fourth time, he asked Kade, who said he felt it too.

Koji shared no such qualms, but he was keeping himself busy checking and re-checking the map as they walked, paying little attention to anything else. Maybe they were just paranoid, Florian thought, and he tried not to dwell on it.

His thoughts made it difficult to relax when they set up camp for the night, but nothing happened in the first hour that they were in the shelter. If anything were watching them or following them, it had no desire to get to them, which somehow assuaged him.

Drained from the fighting and holding the shroud, once he did lie down, he slept almost instantly and did not wake until Kade roused him. The wolf shifter, on the other hand, looked rather haggard—and Florian noticed quickly that his sword was drawn, making him sit bolt upright as adrenaline brought him to full alertness in an instant.

“What happened?” he blurted as Kade stepped away from him. The other man shook his head.

“I heard one of those lion-dogs prowling around a few hours ago,” he said. “And I had a hard time falling back to sleep.”

“Why didn’t you wake me?” Florian asked, irritated. All this time, they could have been in danger, and Kade didn’t think to alert them?

“It wasn’t attacking. It was just scouting,” he replied, kneeling again to wake Koji. “C’mon. Time to get up.”

“Everything okay?” Koji mumbled, sounding uncertain, as he too sat up and rubbed his eyes.

“One of the lion-dogs came in the night to sniff us out,” Florian interjected, making Kade sigh.

“Basically, yes,” he said. “But it was just one. It didn’t attack. We just need to be on the alert when we start breaking down the shelter, in case it’s still around.”

Florian frowned, but Koji seemed to consider Kade’s words, then nodded, barely phased.

They dressed and ate, then Florian set the shroud so they could break down the tent, weapons at the ready.

There was indeed a lion-dog outside once they took the walls down—it had been laying about fifty feet from them, but stood up when they caught sight of it, weapons drawn. It stared at them for a long, tense moment, then took to the air in one massive leap and flew away.

“That’s the way we’re heading,” Koji said as they watched it fly off into the distance. “It must have been spying on us.”

“Are they that intelligent?” Florian asked dubiously.

“We should assume they are,” Kade interjected. “Plan for the worst, hope for the best.”

“They were spoken of very highly in the books I’ve read,” Koji offered.

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