Visions of Skyfire by Regan Hastings

Author:Regan Hastings [Hastings, Regan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101544877
Google: G6ufVuwtIRYC
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

A few hours later, Rune snapped his satellite phone open, hit number three on speed dial and waited impatiently as a distant phone rang. His mind raced and his blood pumped with the need to return to Teresa. Standing on an outcropping of rock a half mile from the cave where she waited, Rune felt more alone than he had in centuries.

He’d had to leave her behind when he returned to the village for supplies and now he was grateful that he had. He had seen the circling flock of buzzards first. Dipping and wheeling in the wind, they performed a dance of death that told Rune he wouldn’t have to worry about avoiding the villagers.

Flashing to the middle of the narrow street, he had been surrounded by carnage. Every villager—men, women, and children—was dead. All of them. They had died in a cascade of bullets, their bodies ripped and torn, and now the buzzards were dropping out of the sky like black snow to finish them off.

He had taken what they needed from the store and gotten out of the little town as quickly as possible.

It had been a long time since he had experienced real fear. But it was with him now.

Whoever had annihilated that village was after Teresa. And they clearly didn’t care who they had to kill to get to her.

Every protective instinct he had ever possessed was roaring to the surface. His huge body practically vibrated with the need to safeguard her. Hold her in the circle of his arms, safe from anything that might harm her. But more even than the need to protect her was the ancient, pulsing demand to claim her body again and again. To drive the mating brand to completion.

To finish this quest.

Because only then would she be completely safe.

“Rune. Problem?”

Torin’s voice shattered his thoughts and jerked him back to the present. An Eternal like Rune, Torin had been the first of them to brand his Awakened witch and find their shard of the Artifact. Together, he and Shea had returned the black silver to Haven—the coven’s home in Wales.

Wales, with its lush greenery and crashing waves against timeworn cliffs, was a long way from here, Rune mused. In more ways than one. In Wales, there was safety. The coven’s home offered exactly what its name implied—a haven. Here, in Mexico, Rune felt danger creeping ever closer. His sharp gaze swept the dark, empty desert around him. The emptiness was a facade, he knew. There was life out there, behind every rock and bush. Snakes, coyotes, wildcats—not to mention the kind of predator that walked on two legs. Hunters roamed these darkened sands. He could feel it—a hum just under his skin that warned of an encroaching menace.

But from where?

“Lots of problems.” Rune’s gaze narrowed on the sliver of moon shining down out of a black star-swept sky.

“What?” Torin’s voice was taut, expectant.

“I’ve got Teresa. We’re in Mexico, going to head to Chiapas to see her grandmother in a day or two.

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