Through the Veil by Karen Aminadra

Author:Karen Aminadra [Aminadra, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flourish Publishing
Published: 2018-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

Eight

Old Wounds

Adeep, low growl from the couch alerted them to Goran watching them.

Lindes leaped from the chair and was by his side in a heartbeat. “Please do not try to talk, Goran.”

She gazed into his deep blue eyes and the low growl emanated from his throat again. His eyes broke from hers and glared past her shoulder to where her cousin stood. Again, Goran snarled.

“If I have to put aside my feelings about him, then so must you,” Lindes hissed, leaning close to his ear and blocking his line of sight with her body.

Goran scanned her face and mouthed the word, “Traitor.”

“I know.” Lindes sighed. “But we need him.”

Nodding toward Melody, Goran grunted.

Lindes took that as a question. “She was injured. An orc got into the house.”

Goran’s eyes grew wide and he pushed himself up. He winced from the pain, reached up, and touched the dressing Lindes put on his neck.

“You are not well enough to fight, Goran.” Lindes sat down beside him and touched his sleeve. “You’re lucky to be alive at all.”

He moved his head to watch her.

“Lindes is right. We need Handor.” Melody smiled kindly.

Goran’s muscles were tense and tight as a bowstring. Lindes could feel them through the material under her fingers.

She thought Goran’s gaze carried fear as he continued to look at her. “I have to trust he will keep me safe,” she whispered.

“Of that, you can be assured,” Handor confirmed.

Lindes watched Goran’s lip curl and his eyes roll heavenward. She squeezed his arm and his eyes drifted down to her fingers curled around his sleeve. “We have no choice.”

If Lindes had blinked she would have missed the briefest of nods. Her shoulders relaxed, knowing Goran allowed Handor to be with her. “We shall see how the land lies as soon as night falls.”

The day dragged on and between catching up on her sleep, Lindes prepared food for them all. She was unused to such work and she was elated to discover soup came ready-made and in tin cans in the human realm.

Goran ate little. Melody returned to her room after breakfast and had soup brought to her in the early afternoon.

Lindes stood over her. She was pale but there was no fever now. Lindes performed her healing magic on them both again before retiring to the spare room to sleep again.

She left the washing up to Handor.

Lindes awoke sometime later. Only one lamp was lit in the living room. She crept toward it as she exited her room. Goran slept deeply on the couch and Handor was curled up reading in the chair Melody had sat in.

She smiled and watched him so engrossed in the book, he didn’t hear her approach. Tiptoeing behind him, she read the page over his shoulder. She frowned. “I had no idea the humans had books about Elves.” She spoke so close to Handor’s ear that he started and flipped the book right out of his hands. It landed with a muffled thud on the rug.

“Lindes, did nobody ever

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