The Golden Key Legacy by AJ Nuest

Author:AJ Nuest
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008170844
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

A Wizard Rises

Chapter 1

Far off in the distance, an eerie wail wound to a high-pitched shriek.

Faedrah jerked her focus to the narrow windows set about the dank, lower level of Gaelleod’s chambers. The metered pulse of several red lights flickered upon the panes, and she sprang forward, wincing against the wrist-biting sting of her restraints. Such forbidding harbingers could only mean one thing. This realm’s armed guard had been alerted all was not well at the McEleod estate.

“I thought I told you to stop squirmin’.” Gaelleod’s thick-necked minion left his post before the door and clomped toward where he’d thrust her upon her ass in the corner. His hunched shoulders spanned the width of an ox. His meaty paws clutched his deadly weapon; the strap cutting into the folded collar of his black surcoat as he advanced.

Faedrah braced and awaited the wrath of his retribution. ʼTwould be a small price to pay in exchange for his nearness. If she struck with her bound feet at precisely the right moment, mayhap she could trip him up, send him careening to the floor and turn the tide of this imprisonment by delivering a sharp kick to his jaw.

“Uh, oh…” Rhys smirked, shackled and strung up by heavy chains before a dark curtain shrouding the opposite wall, his teasing banter at complete odds with the unadulterated hatred in his eyes. “Sounds like the neighbors called the cops. You sure you want them busting in here to find you beating a defenseless woman?”

Faedrah widened her eyes, her jaw set to curtail an exasperated huff. What in all the sane reasoning was the bullheaded man doing? In his weakened state, any punishment he received could harm him thrice fold what she could endure.

Exactly as she’d feared, Gaelleod’s henchman altered his course, bore down upon Rhys and a loud crack tensed her muscles as he delivered a backhanded blow to her lover’s cheek. “Shut your fucking hole before I do it for you.”

Rhys slowly turned his head to face the man, a droplet of blood beading on his bottom lip, and though his wrists remained bound overhead, his arms stretched to the limit of their extent, the man stumbled back from the weight of her beloved’s lethal gaze. “Hit me again, asshole. I dare you.”

Muffled shouts proceeded a repeated thumping from above. A guttural chuckle worked the drawn muscles of Rhys’ chest. Wicked satisfaction curled his lips into a sneer, and shivers born of awe and fascination scuttled the length of Faedrah’s spine to the floor. Though he’d been nearly dismantled by drawing upon his magic in Gaelleod’s study, abilities such as his could not be perpetually subdued.

Even as they remained imprisoned, Rhys’ power gathered in strength, awaiting his summons to return.

“Sounds to me like you need to make a decision. Let’s count down how this is going to play out, shall we?” He squinted as if conjuring the events about to unfold. “The cops discover the broken glass in Leo’s study… Grady’s dead body… and next thing you know they’re conducting a floor by floor search of the premises.

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