When Shadows Dream: Shadow Hounds by Wren Smythe

Author:Wren Smythe [Smythe, Wren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thorny Briar Publishing
Published: 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

NESTRADIA

FIVE MONTHS LATER (FIVE YEARS EVERYWHERE ELSE)

“Aaahhhhh!”

Tana’s excited squeal still echoed in Jezzie’s ears five months later. Uncle Micah did eventually get his hug, like, three hours after his grand introduction. He had to slip in and take his chance when Tana finally let go and went to use the bathroom, but still, he got one, and Jezzie couldn’t help but soak up the familial affection like a deprived booze hound.

Her cousin. Gosh! It still felt weird to even think it, the girl who’d grown up with only her aunt, and the rare visit from her mom, actually had a cousin. Not just a cousin, but an uncle too! How cool, and odd, was that?

Anyway, her cousin, Tana, was super excited to meet her, to actually have another “friendly” female around. She’d latched on instantly, and basically turned into a loveable, psycho, bouncy bunny for the next two weeks. She’d settled a bit since, and the two of them got along like a house on fire. Especially since they both liked to set evil things literally on fire.

Five months on, and she still hadn’t said much about her mom, nor had Uncle Micah; it was obviously a difficult topic for them. What she did know was the Princes were on Tana’s shit list for a very good reason, and as repentant as they were, not even Uncle Micah had fully forgiven them, yet. The death of her uncle’s wife, his daughter’s mother, well, he cast the blame partly at their feet.

She’d learned to leave that particular topic alone, considering she and Nithe both got along well with the princes, and spent time hanging out with them at their castle every few weeks. Tana sometimes even tagged along. She insisted it was to piss them off, and she definitely succeeded in her task, but every now and then Jezzie caught a wistful look of longing cross her cousin’s face. A look of “what if/he’s so sexy/he’s so funny/I wanna lick him real good” which was quickly followed by a hard glint in her eye, and a sharp jab at the lot of them. As if she could fill her words with enough venom to burn away the pain of what they’d done. Thankfully, and annoyingly, the gorgon maids were always underfoot to help divert Tana’s bad mood. Pissing them off never failed to put a grin back on her cousin’s face.

Nithe was doing great. Each day he seemed lighter. The bond grew stronger. They were ever by each other’s side. Even though his memories of Raum, his nightmares, still plagued him, they came less often than they used to. They still dreamed of their other two bondmates, as Nithe called them, but strangely enough only when they stayed the night away from her uncle’s home. Though she did dream with Nithe, and not just about sex. Sometimes she was able to pull him from his nightmares, redirect the course of his dreams. Other times she was the one pulled in

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