The Unblessed Witch (Unmarked Book 3) by Miranda Lyn

Author:Miranda Lyn [Lyn, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-09T18:30:00+00:00

12

“Let go of the horse, Marley,” Atlas demanded. “No sudden movements.”

“We’ll lose them,” I protested, heart racing a million miles a minute as my grip tightened so hard around the leather straps, my knuckles lost all color.

“Let go of the fucking horse.”

But it didn’t matter what he said. Not as a shout came across the lake that took every ounce of self-preservation and strangled it. “Marley Stormborn.”

The hair lifted on my arms and down my spine, and my bladder threatened to empty.

“Run,” I screamed, dropping the reins and spinning. “It’s him. Run, Atty.”

But the second I said his name, the lake shattered into hundreds of giant pieces of ice, riding the top of an angry body of water. When the chunk below us tilted, the horses panicked. I panicked.

Atlas pulled the hatchet from his belt and slammed it into the ice below.

“Magic, Atty. We can float in an orb.”

He cast, saving the horses near the edge of the slab first. I lost my footing and dropped, slamming my head onto the ice as it continued to rock. Sliding past Atlas, he reached a hand out, rescuing me from the cold water not a second too soon. Another glacier collided with the underbelly of ours, threatening to tip us completely over as he now hung from the hatchet, and I clung to him.

“I have to let go in order to cast again,” he shouted. “Trust me.”

I nodded frantically, looking over my shoulder to see a man with pitch black hair and deep-set eyes walking across the top of the water as if it were a paved road.

In one motion, Atlas released the hatchet and cast, catching us in a bubble less than a second before we slammed into the dangerous water.

“I’m sorry I forgot to keep checking the banks,” I said, hustling to my feet.

“There’s no time for that now. Remind me of his spells? Quickly.”

“Uhm. Water. And temperature. And…” I could hardly think straight. “He’s fast. And stronger than he should be.”

“So am I,” Atty growled. “Walk backward.”

We traveled along the top of the water for mere feet before Levin conjured a geyser below us, and we crashed into each other while the orb spun out of control. Atlas and I scrambled, tumbling until I’d taken an elbow to the face and him a knee to the gut. He reached forward, grabbing and holding me tightly to him so we were one.

We struggled but somehow got to our feet, running the same way the sphere turned. Out of desperation, I called the Spirits. I didn’t have self-defense magic. I didn’t even have elemental magic. It was a move made in despair, but no one answered.

Atlas roared, slamming his hand into the orb as he stared at the man responsible, who hadn’t said more than my name, only conducted chaos.

“I’m going to do something really fucking stupid,” Atty said. “You’re going to have to trust me. And don’t fucking die.”

Before I could respond, the bubble around us burst, and I was falling.

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