Unspoken by Amber Lynn Natusch

Author:Amber Lynn Natusch [Natusch, Amber Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

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“I don’t understand how she did it,” Pierson said, sounding confused, a foreign feeling for him, no doubt. “She could barely walk. She wasn’t dying—not yet, anyway—but something was clearly wrong with her—”

“Deimos tried to kill her slowly,” I explained. “We found her half dead.”

“I saw her walking through Detroit, her body dirty and frail…she barely looked capable of moving, and yet she just kept walking as if drawn to something…entranced somehow.”

“Where was she?” Oz asked over my shoulder as we stepped outside.

“She hadn’t gotten far from the house. She was headed east. That’s all I saw before her silent screams started and the vision went black.”

“What would possess her to leave?” I asked, the question aimed at no one specifically.

“Who might be the better question,” Oz growled, “and I have a feeling I know the answer.” He grabbed the phone from me and put it to his ear. “Tell us if anything changes,” he said before hanging up on Pierson and shoving the phone back into my pocket.

“What is happening?” I asked. Oz ignored my question, searching the area for a threat I could not see.

“My guess? Deimos’ brother. The name we don’t say aloud is happening.”

“But why go after Aery? How could he even know she is above?”

“All excellent questions, new girl. Maybe we should drag your second-string boyfriend up here and ask him. It’s his brother we’re about to go after.”

“Deimos told me he could not stop his brother,” I said, doing all I could not to think about the implications for Aery if Phobos had indeed caught her.

“Then let’s hope we can find Aery before he gets his hands on her, because I’m not about to deliver you to him, that’s for damn sure. If it’s a choice between you and the nymph, she will lose every time.”

“We shall see about that.”

I started running east, following the path Pierson had said she’d taken. With so little information to go on, it was difficult to gauge our progress, but we ran anyway. At least it was something—a chance of saving her.

“What do you know of Pho—”

“Don’t say it!” Oz shouted, cutting me off. “Do not say his name.”

“What do you know of Deimos’ brother, then?” I asked Oz just as we came to a dead end. Left or right—a decision that carried more weight than it should have.

“Not enough,” was Oz’s only reply before the answer we sought availed itself in the shape of a gargoyle flying toward us.

“Azriel,” I said. A spark of hope ignited in my chest.

“You mussst hurry,” he hissed. No further explanation was given.

“You know where Aery is?” I asked.

“Sssshe is sssafe for now, but the Dragon cannot hold her forever. Hisss grip on her isss deep. The nymph will die if it isss not broken.”

“Whose grip?” I asked.

The gargoyle looked at me with fear in his eyes and shook his head. “I will not ssspeak hisss name.”

Phobos…

“Take us there now,” Oz said, stepping toward the gargoyle.

The stony creature took flight, with us close behind.

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