Unbound by Unbound

Author:Unbound [Unbound]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Kara’s living room flickered around her, as if she were caught inside a TV with choppy reception. Then with a low soothing hum, the world smoothed and she found herself on the singed rug in front of her fireplace and draped across Risk’s naked body.

She placed her palm over the hole where the ember had fallen just hours earlier. The wool pile was rough and crunchy, the fist-sized spot of wood floor exposed beneath it cool to her touch.

“Risk?” She blinked, her head fuzzy from the influx of power and her strange trip home.

He slid his hand up her arm. “You’re okay,” he murmured.

She nodded and sat up. “What happened? How’d we get here? The man, the dog, then you? I was pulling in power, and it felt good.” A shiver raced over her. “Too good.”

“Dangerous,” he said, his eyes tired.

“But…?” She didn’t know what to ask first…where to even begin.

“You first. Tell me why you were at the Guardian’s Keep, everything that happened there.”

“Are you okay?” she asked. He hadn’t moved more than his arm since they…she glanced around the room…arrived back at her house.

“Just a little drained.” A mocking smile tilted his lips. Then he brushed a lock of hair back from her face. “I’m fine. You talk.”

Kara hesitated, not convinced he was okay and unsure where to start with her own adventures.

He squeezed her hand and gave her a nod.

Still not convinced he was all right, she took a deep breath and began talking. “After you left, I went to the bar.” She edged a look at him. He had told her to wait.

He frowned.

“I talked to the bartender. He was…difficult. And weird, well, not him so much as what happened there.” She told Risk about following the bartender through the doorway and finding herself back where she’d started. “Then I tried again and this time I was outside the bar.”

Interest flashed through his eyes.

Kara rushed on, the reality of what she was describing unsettling her. “And then this nasty little man attacked me, snuck up on me somehow. He had a knife and this other thing. He called it a stunner. Then the dog came, and I was pulling the power, and then—” She stopped abruptly not sure what else to say.

Risk pushed himself onto one elbow. “What about the bartender, did he say anything?”

“To go home. Then some gobbledygook about telling my hellhound the guardian said to keep me away. Oh, and he said bull-headed little witches had a habit of disappearing around there.” Kara knew she was speaking too fast. She snapped her mouth shut, stared at Risk for a second, then continued more slowly. “That bar has something to do with Kelly and her friend, I know it.” Relieved she had gotten the story out, she folded her hands in her lap.

“He called himself the guardian?” Now sitting upright, knees bent, Risk leaned forward, his eyes intense.

“Yeah, Guardian’s Keep, the guardian. I guess that’s what he was talking about.” Her gaze wandered over Risk’s bare chest and arms.

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