Unwanted by Mari LaRoche & Mari LaRoche

Author:Mari LaRoche & Mari LaRoche [Moore, Daphne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vaughn Publishing LLC

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Amir drew the knife down his arm, quick as a snake. Light flared, the blood he drew igniting into flame on the blade. Viv tried to circle the intruders as Amir met three of them. The sickening stench of burning flesh hit her nose as two more piled on Amir and the last came for her. Water flooded the room as the bubble of air burst. Viv and her attacker stumbled back, and she felt her face and front burned by superheated water surrounding Amir.

Viv hit her attacker with all her strength with the chair. Her hands spasmed in pain as the frame twisted from the force of the blow. The water was up to her chest and rising fast, slowing her movement.

The daoine sidhe snarled, blood running from the cut on his temple. “Die, wyrm.”

Faster than her eyes could follow, his hands fastened around her throat. New hideous pain radiated from her larynx, a wrenching crunch as his fingers tightened. She spasmed, clawing at his hands, ripping the flesh with newly extended claws.

A contemptuous pained smile flicked across his face as he shoved her back through the membrane into the open water, out of the room.

She couldn’t breathe, no matter how hard she struggled. Light dimmed, and she tried to scream.

Does it count as drowning if you were already suffocating? Daoine sidhe do lack creativity. Ušum’s thought was flavored with a whiff of irony.

The sidhe who’d crushed her windpipe hung in the water near her, wrapping cloth over his gouged hands. Viv’s anger at the man waiting for her to die burned in her chest even as her vision darkened.

I can help.

Can you save me? Viv wanted her attacker to pay for it.

Yes.

What do I need to do?

Relax. I’ll handle the rest. I need to be ascendent. I’ll switch you back as quickly as I can.

Viv relaxed, lacking any alternative.

Don’t worry. I’ll save both of us. Sleep. Viv spasmed as cold fire ignited at the base of her spine. The icy burn rolled through her body in a wave, and she twisted, fighting to scream as agony wiped out all thought. Velvet blackness followed it, bringing complete relief from pain.

Within that darkness, frightened, suspended, Viv flailed. Her fingers brushed something cool and smooth like a mirror of ice. It shattered under her touch, leaving a thin pale light burning behind it.

A figure, a man with silver eyes and pale hair, flicked a finger against her cheek. “A bit of a mess, isn’t it?” His grin was lopsided, his eyes warm.

“Who are you?”

“A memory. You’ll know me soon enough, little fish. You’ve inherited all those credits; use them wisely. Don’t be afraid. You’ve got this.”

He vanished.

Another face formed out of the darkness, a woman with hair like fire and golden skin. She resembled Donal.

Loathing and rage swept through Viv, overwhelming thought. She jerked away from the intensity of the emotions, and the woman’s emerald eyes narrowed, searching for something in the darkness. A tingle of fear tracked up Viv’s spine.

The darkness snapped away, and sensation returned, full of information.

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