The Firehouse Feline by Laura Greenwood & Laura Greenwood & Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Laura Greenwood & Laura Greenwood & Lacey Carter Andersen [Boruff, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firehouse Feline

I turn off the engine of my car and the silence that surrounds me is deafening. Taking several deep breaths, I pull the key out of the ignition with shaking hands.

This is it. I’ve made this decision. To protect everyone.

It’s the right thing to do.

I open my car door and stiffen at the coldness of the wind swooping off the water. Curling my shoulders in my jacket, I close the door and start toward the beach, leaving the pavement of the parking lot behind. My boots sink into the sand with each step I take, the feeling on the wind ominous.

This is the right thing to do, so why does it seem so wrong?

I’m giving up a throne I don’t want. I’m ending a war my side can’t win. And I’m saving the lives of the people I care for. On paper, there is no other choice but this.

Still, I can’t shake the feeling.

I only walk for a few minutes when I see the glowing silver light Theresa described. My heart races as I move toward it, my instincts screaming a warning.

It’s the bravest thing I’ve ever done to keep walking, in the dark, in the night, toward a man feared by so many. There’s so little I understand about all of this, but I believe Theresa. The others didn’t want to put me at risk, but this was the least I could do for them.

As I come to the hidden place the gollum had dragged the man when I first arrived in this town, I round the rocks and see the king. His eyes are closed. His arms are spread. And the mud where the man was sucked into and disappeared, glows with a blinding silver light.

I feel sick. This is the place, Theresa had said, that the king and his mistress use to gain extra magic from the lives they do deals with. Is the man I saw die still in that mud? His body being drained of his magic?

Shuddering, I push the thought aside. It isn’t the time for that.

Taking a breath that shakes my whole chest, I force my shoulders back and step out from behind the wall. “King Robert, we need to talk.”

His eyes flash open, and for a moment all I see is silver where his pupils should be, and then the light fades away in a rush, and we’re left in darkness.

It takes a long minute for my eyes to adjust to the light cast from the moon. But I try not to panic as I stand, not twenty feet from the man who is supposed to be the root of all evil.

“Regina,” he whispers my mother’s name. “You’re alive.”

I stiffen. “No. Not Regina. Callie, her daughter.”

His eyes, the same blue as my own, roam over me. “You look just like her.”

I say nothing. what is there to say? Wasn’t it his men who hunted and killed my parents? Wasn’t it his men who burned my grandmother alive? And isn’t he the reason my guys are scared right now?

“Did you come because of my note?”

Not exactly.

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