Winged Passion by Amanda Pillar

Author:Amanda Pillar [Pillar, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, Fantasy, paranormal romance, romance
Publisher: Maatkare Books
Published: 2019-02-07T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Trick’s arm hurt like…well, Hell.

But it would mend. Broken bones always did. And courtesy of his ties to the guild and the power they granted, it would only take a few hours, rather than the two days it would have normally taken someone like him. The guild. Great. With no one to manage them, they’d probably descend into chaos by the end of the week. Managing so many diverse demon species required a firm hand and delicate balance. Without him around to control things...

Don’t worry about it yet. You’ll get out.

Sure, and the sky is pink in the Human Realm.

First things first.

Trick tried to teleport, but nothing happened. Damnit. The cell had spells to counteract teleportation. Lucifer would be foolish to have otherwise. Trick had the same magical wards on his own cells.

“Surely we can escape from here.” Seraphina stood and walked to the cell’s bars, gripping them with her hands. He opened his mouth to issue a warning, but too late. She hissed and sprung back, staring at her palms as if they had betrayed her. “That hurt.”

“There’s magic on the bars.”

She frowned, rubbing her palms against her shirt. “I couldn’t see it.”

“The Clear Sight spell must have worn off.” It was almost gone for him, too. He could just see the faintest shimmers of magic. If that damned gallery hadn’t been so bright, I would have seen the trap before we walked into it. But the combination of his fading spell and the room’s brilliance had been a deadly combination.

You got cocky.

What was done was done.

You should have known better. Arrogance gets you nowhere.

Like humility was any better.

“We don’t even know if the spear was in there,” Seraphina moaned the last half of the sentence. She took the three steps back to him, and slumped down against the wall, her hands held out as if burned.

Metal grated against stone, and the clomp of heavy footsteps approached. Trick held a hand up to his lips. If they were still invisible, then the guard might report no one had been teleported in...

It might give them a small window to escape and a small chance was better than no chance.

An armored Elock demon appeared, his massive horns protruding from a metal helmet, and fur wavering on his flat nose. He looked around the cell with beady eyes, before scratching his head and shrugging.

Trick held his breath until the demon turned away, lumbering back in the direction he’d come. He didn’t turn back to Seraphina until the sound of grinding metal reached them.

“I think we’ve just bought ourselves a couple of hours.” He thought of her disappointment and said, “Maybe we can find out if the spear was in the final gallery.” With one hand, he unstrapped the GoPro, and then swung his pack around. He quickly hooked the camera up to his tablet, and replayed the last few minutes of footage.

“You filmed it?” She scooted closer, her warmth like a brand against his side.

“Yep, just in case we needed to have another look at anything.

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