The Dread King: A Reverse Harem Fantasy (The Harbinger Book 3) by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cam was not asleep when he heard Faith get up and go outside. His room did not have a window, so he could not see what she did while out there, but the air was thick with indecision and confusion. Cam knew he was not the one who should be with her right now, so he woke Finn and told him to go check on her.

Groggily, Finn got up, stuffed his feet into his shoes, and wandered into the hall. Cam heard him do a quick search of the room Faith slept in—Cam’s Elven mother’s old room—and when she was not there, he heard his feet clunk outside.

Finn would not make a good predator. He was not as silent as he should be. He could be quieter, if he tried, but that was the point. A true hunter never made a sound, even when they were not on the hunt.

Cam was a hunter. He slunk in the shadows, at home in the darkness. All this daylight took so much getting used to. After years and years in the Cove, after learning what it meant to be an Ulen, he wasn’t accustomed to such things. Sunlight, family, even love. He much preferred the darkness, the cold embrace of the unknown. He did his best to fit in with his brother and Jag and Finn, but he wasn’t like them. Not truly.

Lying there in the darkness, Cam’s legs hung over the side of his bed. He laid on the top bunk, the same bed he had when he was younger. Why hadn’t his Elven mother gotten rid of it by now? With the mound of stones in the back a gravesite, she was missing a key component to having more kids. Why keep it all this time?

Cam wondered if she hoped he would come back. He never once attempted to after he was turned. Going back to Springsweet was a mistake he swore to himself he would not make again. And, technically, he was exiled from Alyna; the hut was on the border between Alyna and the plains of G’alen. The Elven guards did not scout the area. Alyna was far too big for that. He supposed he could’ve come back and no one would’ve been the wiser, but what would it have gotten him? Back then, he probably would’ve killed Sellyn without hesitation. He wasn’t good at self-control.

Now he was a master at it. Now he could stare at a pool of blood and not want to bury his face in it. He could hear the rapid beat of Faith’s heart, see the flush in her skin and not want to sink his teeth into her.

Yes, there was that night in Springsweet with the assassin, but it was a one-time lapse in his otherwise perfect control.

No one knew what being an Ulen was like. No one knew what it felt like to have their entire world torn from them, taken. It was true Cam was the one who turned himself,

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