Trained by Three Panthers [Caves of Correction 3] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) by Adams Cara

Author:Adams, Cara [Adams, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

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Asher opened the door to the dungeon carefully, climbing the stairs from the cave to the house itself with all his senses hyperalert. The hurricane seemed to be dying down, but that was even more reason not to relax his guard. He’d have no way of knowing if there was a hole in their roof or some other problem until he was on the first floor. So he stepped silently and sharpened his senses to give himself as much warning as possible.

There was no sound of water inside the house. That was good, although if it was only dripping he wouldn’t hear it over the wind. The roof was still on, or he’d know by now. The same if the door had blown in. Like all the homes on the island there were no windows so one of them couldn’t have been smashed.

The absence of windows had been a specific decision of the ancestors. Originally it’d been to keep their homes as secure as possible against being attacked. No shape-shifter haters could surround the house and attack a family through many doors and windows when there were no windows and only one door. Of course, that meant the family only had one exit through which they could escape, but every home had a cave for hiding in as a last resort. Besides, a family was better able to defend their house if they could be attacked by only one person entering through a doorway at a time.

Not that the island ever had been attacked. But the ancestors had fled persecution and been very careful to design their new homes for their survival.

Asher took a long, slow breath and held it deep in his lungs, tasting it, weighing it, but there were no alarm bells sounding in his mind. The air was heavy and damp, rich with the scent of the earth and the plants but not with anything alarming or even foreign.

Silently he unlocked the door at the top of the stairs and opened it a bare inch, pressing his eye to the gap and resting his bodyweight against the sturdy wood paneling so it couldn’t be blown inward. Again, nothing out of the ordinary. Asher opened the door, moved through, closed it again, and stood quite still, looking around. The house remained unchanged, no signs of water or anything else inside. He hurried up the second flight of stairs to the first floor, walked to the front door, unlocked it, moved outside, and stood still.

The light was still that unearthly grayish color, but the wind was no stronger than a normally windy day, and the twigs, leaves, and flowers that covered the ground were no worse than he’d expected. Certainly there were no fallen trees to worry about. He walked backward away from the house and sighted along the roofline. All the tarpaulins and ties had held. Everything was good. The house and his family had weathered the storm intact.

Now they needed to check on the rest of the community, which meant taking Kenz to the big house, their office and gathering point.

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