Unearthed by Sara M Zerig

Author:Sara M Zerig [Zerig, Sara M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Unearthed - AoX Series - Book 1
Publisher: Middlebury Publishing House LLC
Published: 2019-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Seth bolted upright in the motel bed. His father was dead. He did not know how, but he knew he was gone.

“Seth?” The girl mumbled beside him, half asleep. Was it Valentina or Valeria? Violeta, maybe.

“Go back to sleep, baby,” he said gently. Baby was universal.

It was early, and the sun wasn’t up yet. He maneuvered nimbly through the darkness of the small room to the bathroom sink and splashed cool water on his face. There was no A/C, and even the nights in Mexico were hot this time of year.

Seth had negotiated a contract to construct luxury vacation villas. Construct them—not stay in them. After overseeing a crew of realmless working with the finest of materials all day, they retired to a motel that was sub-par, even by economy standards. Not much better than the cave his father lived in.

Had Lee died alone in his cave? It had been months since Seth had seen him. Lee checked in on Seth a few times a year. Sometimes, they would talk for nearly an hour, primarily about Seth’s life as a realmless. Every now and again, Seth got the feeling his father envied his realmless life.

Had it been a nightmare? Another splash of water yielded no change. The feeling remained: his father was gone. He didn’t know how he could be so sure; Seth could never sense Lee as his relative the way Lee could sense him. But he was sure.

As much as Seth had wished Lee would have raised him in the Shifter Realm, he understood why Lee never took him in. Seth could travel to and from the Shifter and Elven Realms like a pureblood and was sensed by others as a shifter. To look at him, though, anyone who knew of the magic realms knew he was not a shifter of the Shifter Realm; he was barely 6’ tall, and the average Shifter Realm shifter was 7’ tall. And Seth could only partially shift; he could produce the claws and fangs of a wolf but nothing more.

He may not have been much of a father, but if not for Lee’s intervention, Seth would still be under the thumb of his manipulative, power-crazed mother. Seth could not sense his mother any more than he could sense Lee; fortunately, Char could not sense him either. Seth supposed he could track her down if necessary. Lee had once told Seth that Char had married a human and settled into Earthen life in Colorado under the name Charlotte Bradley. But Lee had shared that so Seth could avoid her, not find her. Seth had followed his father’s advice, sticking with James’ band and staying away from Char.

All in all, Seth led a good life. He was a trusted member in James’ band of realmless. He was in good health and had steady work. He was generally happy.

But Lee had never been happy. An empty shell of a shifter, he had been going through the motions of daily life with no real purpose. He had never mated.

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