Wolves of East Anglia Boxed Set by Marisa Chenery

Author:Marisa Chenery [Chenery, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Forever More Publishing
Published: 2015-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Garrick rubbed his cheek against Nika’s again. “It’s all right. I know this isn’t the time or place to be professing my feelings for you.” He painfully inched away. “Turn and face me, but not so close that I don’t have room to work. I’m going to try to bite through the ropes on your wrists.”

“If it works, watch the skin. All right?” She did as he said.

“I’ll be careful. The only skin nibbling I want to do is when I’m in human form and we’re both naked.”

“Garrick,” Nika said with a stern look on her face.

“Fine. I’ll get to work on these ropes and won’t say anything more about what I’ll do to you the next time I get you into bed.”

Feeling the pain of each of his wounds, Garrick went up on his knees to better reach Nika’s wrists. He bent his head, sank his sharp teeth into the thick rope and pulled to snap the fibers. Over and over he repeated the process, and little by little, it frayed. The time-consuming work took its toll on his weakened body, but he refused to stop until Nika was free.

Once the rope was frayed enough, Nika yanked on her wrists until what remained intact snapped. She quickly untangled her hands as Garrick sat back on the floor, panting a little.

“What about your chains?” Nika asked once she’d moved to his side. “You can’t bite through those.”

“Not unless I want to break my teeth,” he said, trying for some humor. He dragged himself up straighter. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it since my shifting ability has been affected, but I’m going to try to will my sword into my hands. Then I want you to take it and use it to break the chain.”

Nika swallowed. “Your sword? You have some kind of magical sword you can make appear and disappear?”

“Something like that. We’ll just have to see if I can do it, since I draw on the same power inside me to shift as I do to will my sword to my hand.”

Concentrating, Garrick drew on his power. Same as when he’d first tried to shift, he didn’t meet with success. He only managed to will a ghost of his sword into his bound hands. One after another attempts failed until he was even weaker, but he wasn’t ready to call it quits. He gathered his powers and focused them harder than he’d ever had to, willing the sword to take on solid form. A split second before he was about to lose the hold on his ability, his sword appeared, and he closed his hands around the pommel.

Panting heavily, his head hanging to his chest, Garrick tightly clutched his prize. Once he’d caught most of his breath, he lifted his head and looked at Nika. “Take the sword and use it to chop through the length of chain between my wrists and the bar.”

Nika took her bottom lip between her teeth while she wrapped her hands around the pommel just above where he held on to it.

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