The Marked Earth by Miranda Brock & Rebecca Hamilton

Author:Miranda Brock & Rebecca Hamilton [Brock, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evershade Publishing

Cold stone pressed against my cheek, and deep, rumbling growls rolled over me.

The back of my head gave a painful twinge as I pushed myself into a sitting position. The cell I found myself in was poorly lit by a single torch flickering on the other side of the thick bars.

Kael paced back and forth a few feet from me in his jaguar form, his tail twitching and threatening growls coming from his chest. Blood stained his spotted, golden coat along his rolling shoulder.

“You’re hurt,” I said.

Kael whipped his head toward me. You’re awake. His voice was soft in my mind. He walked over to me and bent to rub his head against my cheek.

I wrapped my arms around his warm coat. “Why are we still alive? I thought they wanted to kill us?”

They have a different fate for us, it seems. Kael sat back on his haunches, and a deep sigh huffed through him. Livvie, they have your keys.

My heart jumped. If they had my keys, then they had the bond to my soul. They could control me, use my power to taunt and torture and kill whoever they pleased. My throat tightened as I stared at Kael, his golden eyes reflecting even in the poor light.

They could use me to kill my own mate if they wanted.

Kael stood and curled his neck over my shoulder. No one owns your soul but you.

His hot breath sent surprisingly delightful shivers through my body.

I gently pushed him away before I gave too much thought to the fact that, if he shifted now, he’d be naked, and we were alone. Kael tilted his head in what I was certain was smugness.

“What sort of fate do they have planned for us?”

“One you won’t be satisfied with at all,” came a familiar woman’s voice.

Ziba.

Kael charged against the bars as she rested against the wall beneath the torch. She crossed her legs, perfectly at ease.

Hatred rose in me like bile. I got to my feet and did my best to ignore the painful throb at the back of my skull. Someone must have knocked me out.

I wrapped my hands around the bars and bared my teeth in a way that would make Kael proud. “You bitch. Why are you doing this?”

Ziba picked at her fingernails. “It’s my destiny, just as the scroll revealed. Remember? The bearer of the scroll will have a part to play in saving the world from the cursed ones.” She pointed her finger at me. “Starting with saving the world from you.”

I bristled, mostly because I wondered if she was right. “And what about the part where it said life must become death, so death may become life?”

A wicked smile touched Ziba’s red lips. “Well, I guess you have an answer on your fate, don’t you?”

We hadn’t escaped death. It had merely been postponed.

“You would kill Kael?”

The gryphon shifter’s smile faltered as she glanced down at my rumbling mate. “I cannot beg for what is not mine.”

Kael snarled at Ziba. She is lost, he said.

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