Those Who Fear the Darkness (BloodRunes: Book 2) by Cole Laura R

Author:Cole, Laura R
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, fantasy, magic, dragon, mage, secret society, runes, magestone
Publisher: Laura R Cole

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Katya sat on a branch and watched the couple as they worked together in their garden. They laughed freely and spoke affectionately to each other. The woman was pulling weeds while the man gathered the vegetables which had reached their peak ripened condition. It made her heart ache for the childhood and the family that was stolen from her.

She wondered how to best approach them. She had so many questions to ask them, but she wasn’t quite sure how. Somehow, broaching the subject by telling them that she’d seen their faces while shifting through memories she’d only recently been able to access since getting rid of a collar that made her a slave assassin didn’t seem to be her best option.

Her last connection with Karl had revealed that everything she had thought about who she was was actually a lie. In those last few moments she had ripped from him the keys to unlocking her earliest memories, and within them lay these two people’s faces. But other than that she had no clues to work with. Were they friend or foe?

Thunder boomed in the distance, and they looked up at the sky, observing the dark clouds to the west. They hurried along in their work. As the thunder sounded again, obviously closer this time, they started gathering things to bring into their small but cozy-looking house. They cleaned up from the garden chores and moved the animals into their pens, preparing them for the impending storm. Since the quake, the weather had been more intense, and no doubt they were preparing for the worst.

When everything outside was ready, the two went hand and hand into the house, where shutters started being pulled closed. As the windows shut, one by one, Katya felt more and more alone and isolated and the urge to go and talk to them overwhelmed her.

She jumped down from the branch she had been perched on and strode to the door. She raised a hand to it and knocked.

The man opened it with a smile. “Hello,” he said, “Can I help you?”

Katya felt a twinge of disappointment that she had not been recognized, apparently her connection to them wasn’t that simple, and her curiosity would not be so easily sated. She shook the feeling aside. “I’m Katya,” she told him, “I was hoping you might let me weather the storm in your barn?”

She saw the woman look up from the pot she had been stirring over the fire and the woman’s warm eyes looked her over. “Hello,” she greeted Katya kindly. The spoon she had been holding clanked into the pot as it slipped from her fingers, and she hastily brought her gaze back to her task, rescuing the handle before it disappeared under the bubbling liquid. When she had it firmly back in her grasp, she looked up again. “We wouldn’t think of making you spend the night out in the cold, please join us for dinner, we have an extra room upstairs you can use for the night.

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