The Wild Rites Saga Omnibus 01 to 04 by Anna McIlwraith

Author:Anna McIlwraith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Erotic, Paranormal
Published: 2016-06-28T14:30:00+00:00

The solid green of the landscape far below was breaking up, becoming quilt-like as jungle turned to farms and villages the closer they got to the coast. It made Emma giddy to watch, but it was better than watching the thick, off white, amorphous clouds at the distant horizon. For some reason, watching the clouds nauseated her. Instead she watched the ground as the Brus Laguna air field came into view and the chopper began its descent.

Fern nudged her with his mind. Something’s bothering you, has been since you spoke to Alexi.

She looked away from the window and met his eyes in the gloom. His cheeks were flushed for some reason, she thought — and then realized that while she’d been gazing out the window, lost in her own thoughts, Fern had been talking enthusiastically with Tarissa, one of the maidens. She couldn’t recall what their chatter was about, only their raised voices and laughter.

What was bothering her? Something about the way Alexi had spoken of the other serpent priest. Maybe Emma was just wigged out because she’d never seen the other priest before now. After all, she and those she cared about had gone to Egypt and risked their lives to rescue him, but her only contact with the kidnapped priest in question was a brief glimpse in her mind as she merged with Alexi in the final terrible battle, siphoning information from the corrupt king’s vizier in order to uncover where they had hidden the priest.

And in that moment, something had happened. The tortured priest’s mind had touched hers — theirs — but then the world went black.

For the life of her, she couldn’t remember that moment clearly. Not surprising, considering she’d been run through with a sword and ridden by an ancient Egyptian goddess whose presence had been the only thing keeping Emma upright, and then the goddess had fled Em’s dying body.

No wonder she couldn’t recall the exact details of her brief mental merge with Alexi and the other priest. But damn, she had the feeling it was important.

And hadn’t Seshua implied at dinner that Alexi was avoiding the rest of the serpent priesthood?

Alexi had something to hide, and it was directly related to the comatose serpent priest, but she couldn’t put it together.

The rest of the trip went smoothly, though when they had boarded the jet and were back in the air and Emma could finally get Fern to herself, he didn’t have much to offer on the subject of the serpent priests.

As though he hadn’t eaten enough the night before to give an elephant indigestion, Fern returned to his seat with a packet of peanuts and slouched into the plush leather beside Emma. He sat in silence for a moment, thoughts lightly shielded. The serpent priesthood has strict vows, y’know. He picked at the fiddly opening of the bag of nuts. And every one of them is batshit crazy. The rest of the priesthood wouldn’t take kindly to anything they perceived as Alexi stepping out of bounds — maybe that’s why he’s avoiding them.

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