The Ocean's Roar_A Tiger Shifter and Mermaid Romance by Keira Blackwood & Eva Knight

Author:Keira Blackwood & Eva Knight [Blackwood, Keira & Knight, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paramour Press
Published: 2019-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

The little sub surfaced in the same harbor where this whole adventure began. But this time I wasn’t fighting anyone. And this time, I had a partner.

As the craft came to a stop, the hatch popped open. The sky was dark, which was completely disorienting. When I’d seen the lighter water on the way up, I’d assumed it was still day, but it had just been moonlight. The scents of salt water and pollution filled the air. Land—home sweet home.

With a few clicks, I used my phone to order a cab.

I hopped out of the pod, and the whole thing swayed. Water splashed up and inside.

Selene shot me a pointed look but said nothing.

She stood slowly and looked around.

“Your land’s air smells like garbage.”

“That it does.” I smiled at her.

“You find it pleasant?” she asked.

“No. But it’s still nice to feel the air around me instead of worrying that one of those big glass walls in your tower is going to burst and flood.”

“It’s not glass. And you’re perfectly safe in the towers.”

I shrugged. “You climbing out of that thing?”

“I will.” She bent down and pushed some buttons, then sucked in a deep breath and stepped over the side of the sub into the knee-high water.

The hatch closed and the sub moved away on its own, out into the ocean and below the surface.

“So that thing is going to be hidden in the water when we’re done,” I said. “Clever.”

“No,” Selene said.

“No what?”

“We’ll be forced to wait twelve hours for the return of the pod. It’s protocol to avoid detection.”

“What if it only takes us an hour at Waffles’s place?” I asked.

“Then we must wait.”

We were marooned, stranded, cast ashore—sweet. While I wanted to find Waffles and clear his name, I wasn’t disappointed to take a break from the water city, or to spend the night with Selene.

“Well okay, then,” I said. “Let’s get started.”

I headed up the concrete slope, and I turned when I didn’t hear Selene’s footsteps following me.

She had her staff drawn, not with the stabby points, but still long and ready to bash heads. And she wasn’t moving.

“Come on,” I said.

“The monsters will know my kind by scent. I won’t be caught unprepared for battle.”

“Monsters? There aren’t any monsters. And no one will know who you are,” I said.

“That’s not what I’ve been told.”

“Well,” I said, “then you’ve been told wrong.”

Selene studied my face, then nodded. “I will trust you. But I will defend myself if you are wrong.”

“Fair enough.” I waited for her, and then we walked side-by-side up into the alleyways where I’d first laid eyes on the siren.

We passed by the cardboard shanties, through the dark paths, toward the city center.

“Are these flimsy cubes meant to be residences?” she asked.

“Yeah.”

“Do you all live this way?”

“No,” I said.

“It is as you said then, an entire world of inequality.”

“It really is.”

Selene frowned, but kept walking.

The closer we walked to the rest of the city, the louder the night became. It didn’t take long before we

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