Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake

Author:Jocelynn Drake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061851827
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

A pair of lycanthropes was ushered into the parlor by Cynnia and Shelly, while Rowe and I separated. The one-eyed naturi moved to the far edge of the room and lounged against a doorway leading to another part of the house, and I remained leaning against the mantel. A look of deep concern filled Shelly’s eyes as she gazed on the older of the two shifters. An uneasy feeling twisted in the pit of my stomach as I watched these two newcomers. This wasn’t a social call.

“Nyx, Rowe,” Cynnia began, capturing our attention. “This is Barrett Rainer, alpha for the Savannah pack, and James Parker, one of the pack’s members.”

I nodded to the two men but otherwise remained silent, waiting to hear what had brought them to Cynnia’s doorstep at such an early hour. The sun had yet to creep over the horizon, though I could see through the nearby window that the sky was slowly changing from its midnight blue to slate gray as dawn approached.

“We’ve come to ask for your assistance,” Barrett said, taking a seat on the sofa. To my surprise, Shelly settled on the sofa beside him, while Cynnia returned to the other end of the couch she had been sitting in earlier. James hovered nearby, fingering his gold-rimmed spectacles while pacing with the pent-up energy of one with too much anxiety to settle in any place for long.

“What has happened?” Cynnia asked, bringing a frown to my lips. We had enough problems of our own. We didn’t need to be dragged into the problems of the local lycans after just winning Rowe over to our side. I needed him to stay focused, not distracted by minor scuffles with the shifters or even bigger fights with Mira and the nightwalkers.

“The Daylight Coalition has been harassing the lycans and nightwalkers of Savannah recently,” Barrett explained, resting his forearms on his knees. He looked tired and more than a little haggard, as if he had spent too many sleepless nights worrying about something. “They knew where to hunt us during the full moon. They knew too much. We deduced that they must have some kind of insider providing them with information, so we decided to send our own mole to infiltrate their ranks.”

“Who went?” Shelly inquired.

“A local police detective by the name of Daniel Crowley,” the lycanthrope replied. “He has long been a supporter of our kind, and we needed a human who could sneak into their ranks. I promised his sister-in-law—a member of my pack—that he would return to Savannah safely.”

“I don’t know this Daylight Coalition,” Cynnia said with a shake of her head as she looked over at me.

“It’s a human group of mercenaries,” Rowe said, unexpectedly speaking up, but then I was forgetting that he had been alone on earth for centuries while I was locked away. He would naturally be more familiar with what was happening among the humans and the other races. “They made it their mission to hunt down anything they don’t classify as human.

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