Awakening Arthur (A Wizard's Quest #2) by Dan Wingreen

Author:Dan Wingreen [Wingreen, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay fantasy adventure romance
Publisher: Fireborn Publishing
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Noah stalked through the halls of the White House, pondering. If there had been anyone around to see him besides a few random teams of DMS agents searching the building for terrorists hiding in closets, he might have been upset with himself for letting the mask slip. As it was, he barely noticed the way the agents would only look at him out of the corner of their eyes, or how they quickly looked away and hurried on when they saw the expression on his face. Word had traveled fast that there was a hunter in the capitol, and while most DMS agents only knew of hunters as rumors and whispers, the chosen few who served at the White House itself knew all too well how real they were and exactly how much leeway they had with a law that already applied a little less equally to government officials than most others.

They knew to be scared when a hunter looked furious.

Of course, the key sentiment in that observation was that he looked furious. The set of his lips, pressed together so hard they turned white; the way his eyes flared with emotion, even narrowed as they were; his quick, purposeful walk; all of it combined to make an astonishingly convincing display of fury. Especially for a man so used to only showing what he wanted others to see. The only problem was, he wasn't actually furious.

Instead, Noah was…vexed. Discomfited, even.

The Prime Minister had refused to see him, and he couldn't understand why.

It made no sense, no matter how he turned it over in his head. Every single mysterious note had come from the Prime Minister's desk. The last one, the one that had told him Aidan Collins and the man in black would be coming to the White House's nonexistent basement—to steal Excalibur of all things—had come to him on a specially spelled carrier pigeon, for Merlin's sake! Spelling animals was notoriously difficult and tended more towards making a mess than actual success, which just made him more certain his mysterious messenger wasn't just someone working in the Prime Minister's office, but the Prime Minister himself, since the man was known for his affinity with animal casting.

So why would he refuse to even speak with Noah?

It wasn't that Noah was expecting a medal, or even a handshake. He'd failed in his mission, quite spectacularly actually, since not only did one of the terrorists get away with Excalibur, but he didn't even have the first idea where to start looking for him.

Noah still didn't understand what had happened. It couldn't have taken them more than two minutes to destroy the shield and yet in that time Aidan Collins had literally disappeared into thin air, sword and all. If nothing else, he needed to at least give a report on his failure so they could take that into account when they organized a search or called in another hunter. He didn't expect to live, he didn't deserve to live, but his information and experiences during the hunt needed to be passed on.

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