Alpha Assassins Guild: (Complete Series: Books 1-5) by Juniper Leigh

Author:Juniper Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary Fiction, Humor, Contemporary Women, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, New Adult & College, Adventure, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Women's Fiction
Publisher: Enamored Ink
Published: 2015-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

They were driving for an hour by the time they arrived at their destination. “How’d you make it to the hospital so fast?” Viola asked him when they finally pulled the truck to a stop in what looked like the middle of nowhere. Graham explained to her that he had been staying at his apartment in the city so that he could get into the office early. But he glanced at her rather coyly and amended the statement.

“All right,” he said, “I also just… I didn’t like the idea of being so far away from you through all this uncertainty.”

She smiled a little as she climbed out of the trunk, her sneakers crunching against the gravel beneath her feet. She looked up and saw trees, towering evergreens, against a clear blue sky. They seemed to be in a small clearing, but there were no buildings as far as the eye could see.

“Graham…?” He was closing the driver’s side door and walking around to the bed, where he hoisted two duffel bags out of the back. “Where, exactly, are we?”

“The Dwelling,” he replied as though it were obvious. “This way.”

He led her along a trail that weaved in and out of the trees until they came to a small cave opening in the side of a hill. He walked right into the mouth of the cave and disappeared; Viola hesitated before she followed. But after a few steps, motion-detecting lights went o and illuminated a small space, no more than four square feet in dimension, with a packed dirt floor and a door, the same grey as the natural rock walls.

“Wow,” she said as he put the bags down and searched his key ring for the right key. “This is… very ‘secret lair.’”

Graham smiled as he unlocked the door and pushed his way inside. “Yep,” he said, holding the door open with his foot and reaching down to pick up both bags. “Just call me Batman.”

Viola moved into the Dwelling, her feet landing on a metal platform that led to an elevator. The golden doors glowed warm and swept open immediately when they reached the threshold, even as the main entrance door was closing behind them. They stepped inside, but there were no buttons to press, just a keyhole, into which Graham stuck another one of his keys. Turning it, the doors closed behind them and they began their descent.

Viola’s ears popped before the doors opened, and Graham hauled up the bags as they stepped out onto a balcony that overlooked an incredible underground sanctuary. Viola stepped lightly over the masonry to the railing and leaned over, drinking it all in.

It was extraordinary: hundreds of feet below ground, it was a cylindrical lair with balconies that ringed it in a perfect spiral. At the far end of the cavern was a natural waterfall that spilled from the top tier and disappeared into the hot spring below. The place seemed to exist in perpetual evening, with dim indirect lighting casting everything in a warm orange glow.

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