Beyond Everlight: an Urban Fantasy Novel (Fearless Destiny Book 1) by Debbie Cassidy

Author:Debbie Cassidy [Cassidy, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER25

I barely knew Erebus, but it was as if his absence had leached a little colour from the atmosphere. A few days he’d said, which couldn’t be more than a week right? I really wanted to start training. Inaction was my enemy.

I entered the dining room to find Vale and Samson drinking some kind of beverage from goblets. It definitely didn’t look like tea or coffee. Man, I could kill for a cup of tea.

The djinn watched me approach; Samson with a scowl and Vale with a smile. The chair I’d occupied the other day was empty and so I slipped into it. There was a goblet in front of me and a jug of whatever they were drinking, but I didn’t really fancy trying it.

My stomach gurgled.

“We don’t have to put up with this you know,” Samson said to Vale. “Erebus is away, we don’t have to tolerate this . . . human.”

He said it like a dirty word, something vile and disgusting.

I clenched my jaw. Okay, so he didn’t like humans. It wasn’t worth the hassle fighting back.

Vale looking me up and down with his dark eyes. “Well, I for one find her charming. So small and delicate.”

Small? Me? I stifled a snort, because I suppose compared to these mammoth creatures I was pretty dinky.

Samson raked me with his derisive crimson eyes. “Vale, your desperation for diversion is becoming depressing, not to mention delusional, especially if you could find this pathetic one-legged freak charming.”

Heat surged through my body and before I could think my goblet was sailing across the table toward Samson’s head.

It connected with a thunk.

Samson leapt to his feet; his face a contorted mask of barely contained fury, and made to lunge across the table. Vale’s chair scraped across the ground as he jumped to my defence, but I didn’t fucking need him to defend me. I was on my feet, muscles quivering, pulse racing, ready for whatever he had to throw at me.

“Enough!” Sabriel’s voice froze Samson in his tracks. “Erebus may not be here but I am.”

He looked different, taller and broader. His cerulean eyes blazed with inner fire, and he was transformed from a graceful, almost feminine creature, into a formidable one.

Samson turned his head toward Sabriel, his lip curling. “You think I give a damn what you think?”

“No. But you won’t cross me either.”

“Samson, please. Just go,” Vale pleaded.

Samson’s jaw tensed. His eyes were mere slits when he turned them on me. “You’re a novelty. Nothing but a novelty, and when you wear off, then I’ll have my fun.” His lips curled in a sadistic smile that sent a chill up my spine. He kicked his chair and stormed from the room, taking the tension that crackled in the room with him.

My pulse was still pounding in my head and I slowly uncurled my fists, absently noting the half crescent marks my nails had cut into my palms.

“Kenna? Are you alright?” Sabriel’s hand landed on my shoulder lightly.

I turned to Vale. “What did he mean by that?”

Vale shrugged.

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