War (Guardians of The Realm Book 3) by Amanda Fleet

Author:Amanda Fleet [Fleet, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manson and Westwood
Published: 2020-03-21T05:00:00+00:00

16

At the top of the track, next to the portal back to The Realm, stood four burly men. I was so close. So close! I leaned on my knees to catch my breath, ready to scream with frustration. I screwed my eyes up, my shoulders sagging.

I didn’t think the men had seen me yet. Should I backtrack? Make my way round to the Hidden Gate – the other way into The Realm I knew? It was about an hour’s walk from here; less if I ran, but my leg was agony, and more importantly, Aegyir shouldn’t find out there was another portal to The Realm.

I took stock. I was battered and bruised and with few options. I had a little salve, so could heal, though that would leave me vulnerable while I did. I could hide somewhere and come back when these guys had gone, but there was no guarantee they would go, or that others wouldn’t come and take their place. I couldn’t wait them out. Faran would come out to find me, but only after seven days had passed out here, and I’d been Outside for just over three. Which left trying to fight my way past them and hurling myself at the portal to enter The Realm, where they couldn’t follow. Out of all the weapons I’d brought, I had three knives remaining in my possession. The rest were embedded in one person or another. I tapped my chest, my fingers finding only leather. I felt over my jacket. Shit! I’d lost my communications button. My heart plummeted. This close to The Realm, it might have worked.

The men at the rock face turned towards me.

“What are you waiting for, Aeron?” one of them called down. Aegyir’s cadence.

I had no choice but to go up and hope I could find a way to dodge past them to the rock face.

I hauled myself upright, secreted the knives into accessible places and climbed the track. As I approached, I tried to assess their weaknesses, spot a route through them. Two of the men were armed with metal pipes, the other two with just their fists, as far as I could tell. One man was as tall as me; the others shorter. All of them packed more muscle than I did. But then, so did Faran, Lord Sondan and Lord Eredan and I could beat them, on a good day. I swallowed. My leg screamed at me, exhaustion ached through every muscle, and adrenaline levels were running low to empty. Today was not a good day. I stopped a few paces from them.

“Aeron, Aeron. So valiant. But you can’t win.” The tallest man tapped the metal pipe against his thigh, his scruffy jeans faded at the knee and his tan leather jacket looking like it had escaped from the seventies.

“I’m a Guardian of The Realm and you’re in my way.” I scowled, pulling myself up to my full height.

“Are you trying to be brave. Or are you just stupid?”

I pursed my lips.

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