Waking Eden (The Eden Series Book 3) by Rhenna Morgan

Author:Rhenna Morgan [Morgan, Rhenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945361005
Publisher: Rhenna Morgan
Published: 2016-07-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Ramsay dodged left, barely missing Eryx’s roundhouse kick to the head.

Before he could re-center, Eryx jabbed and clipped his jaw.

“Fuck!” Ramsay jumped back and shook his head to clear the lingering rattle. His muscles had bypassed any kind of healthy burn an hour ago and throbbed with a bone deep ache.

“You’re distracted,” Eryx said between heavy breaths. “Either focus or give it up.”

He probably should give it up. They were both drenched in sweat, shirts tossed aside less than thirty minutes into their match, but his mind wouldn’t shut the hell up. He staggered back into the game, chin down and hands up. “More.”

“Bullshit.” Eryx feigned another kick, levitated into a spinning barrel roll over Ramsay’s head, and smacked him on the temple before landing in a crouch. “You’re too damned stubborn to own what’s going on.”

The verbal barb pierced deep, stinging worse than the bitch-slap his brother landed. He lashed out, one kick after another interspersed with ruthless punches. It wasn’t Eryx in front of him anymore. It was everything else. A black blur of frustration. The prophecy. Trinity’s heartless mother. The Spiritu.

His fist connected with bone, and his vision cleared in time to see his brother’s head snap to one side. “Shit.”

Eryx leaned over and braced himself with his hands on his knees, and a drop of blood splattered to the sand.

“Eryx—man, I didn’t mean—”

Eryx waved him off and straightened, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, but he was grinning. Lopsided, but grinning, his teeth streaked with more blood. “Thought you’d never get around to that.”

Ramsay’s thoughts, his breath, even his body shook with a dangerous mix of fatigue and adrenaline scrambling for stability. “I shouldn’t have let that out.”

“Actually, it’s exactly what you should have done, but about an hour earlier.” The words were garbled, hindered by what Ramsay suspected was a broken jaw, but there was no missing the message in his tone. “You keep that stuff locked up and it’ll ruin you from the inside out.” He pressed his palm to his cheek and concentrated on healing the injury Ramsay had caused.

Ramsay spun away, a whole new flavor to his already manic emotions jumping into play. He’d sparred with his brother in one way or another since before they’d been born, but he’d never attacked him like this. His outburst was a complete lack of control. The purest kind of rage, indiscriminate of anything in its path.

The tall stadium wall with its ivory stone spectator benches stretched out on either side of them, an impressive five hundred feet total. Only a handful of torches burned in the center where they’d fought, making the arena seem even older than it really was. How long had it been since they’d had warrior competition just for fun? Bright sunshine pinging off the gold flecks in the sand and stone while spectators cheered on their favorites? Certainly not in the last year. At this rate, he wasn’t sure they ever would again.

“Let’s go.”

Ramsay turned at his brother’s sharp and much clearer words.

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