The Last Chronomancer (The Chronomancer Chronicles Book 1) by Reilyn Hardy

Author:Reilyn Hardy [Hardy, Reilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2016-01-29T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

the thealey massacre

I could hardly sleep.

Every time I did manage to fall asleep, I was woken suddenly by my own fear. The smallest foreign noise — it was like I was half asleep the entire time. Not fully awake, not fully asleep. There was an in-between, and I couldn’t get myself out of it.

Jace didn’t seem to sleep much either. We shared a room again. I think he didn’t want to let me out of his sight, and every time I glanced over at him, he was staring at the ceiling.

I was positive he knew I was awake because I kept shifting around on the hard mattress, but we never spoke. Things were off, but I had to trust he would tell me when he felt it was right to and though I hoped it would be the right time soon enough, I couldn’t exactly be angry about it. I still hadn’t told him the whole truth and it was hypocritical of me to expect him to tell me everything when I wasn’t even doing that myself.

Still, when morning came, we didn’t talk about last night. In fact, he acted like nothing had happened. I wished I could do that. I wished I could just pretend that a vampire didn’t grab me and try to fly me away. But he didn’t want to talk about it and if Jace didn’t want to give me any answers, he wasn’t going to.

I knew that much by now.

When we went into Rubies & Speared Boar later that day, and I tried to focus on Rhiannon instead. I wanted to be able to help her now more than ever, but I couldn’t understand a thing Jace was doing, and it didn’t help that he wasn’t telling me anything.

“Jace, we need to get her out of there,” I said while he ordered two mugs of stout, boiled sausage with walnut bread and sharp cheese, and a side of roasted pork. “How hungry are you?”

“I know.”

“You know? Why’d you get her locked up in the first place?” I was doing my angry whispering again. I don’t know why I bothered. “Can’t you break her out?”

“If she could break out, she would have already. If she isn’t strong enough, neither am I. I have a plan, all right?”

“Well? What is it?”

“That’s for another time. I’m definitely not telling you here,” he said as his food was placed down in front of him. He bit down on his bottom lip and smirked up at the barmaid. She just shook her head and started muttering something about him being far too young as she walked away. “Just listen,” he told me once she was out of earshot. “There’s a lot to listen to. I don’t come in here for the attention, Mae. I come to hear what they say. People talk, they love to gossip and you’ll be surprised what some will say when they’re drunk enough.”

I tore a piece of the walnut bread and listened just as he told me to.

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