City of Fog and Ruin (Blade and Bone Book 2) by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2022-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

KANAR

Kanar had nothing but bad memories of this place. Not only had this been where Edward had held him, but now Morgan had tried to trap him here, confining him and attempting to keep him from helping Lily? His anger surprised him. He was frustrated with Morgan, but it was more than just that. The frustration came from his feeling of impotence about helping someone he considered a friend.

He paused in the hallway. All of these sculptures littering the hall reminded him of the one Malory had him take for her, at least in their design. Kanar found himself studying the incredible detail of these dark stone sculptures, trying to make sense of what was depicted within them, before tearing his gaze away. This was not helping Lily.

Morgan had taken the Alainsith blood from him.

He knew that shouldn’t bother him as much as it did. He wasn’t going to do anything with the Alainsith blood anyway. He had no use for it. Oh, he could come up with plenty of ways that blood might be beneficial for him, were he willing to use it similar to witchcraft, but Kanar was not interested in anything like that. He should have destroyed it, but knowing what he and others had gone through to acquire the blood, he felt he had little choice but to keep it. And if the blood helped Morgan find Lily…

That was the only thing he could think of for why she had been after it, but he wasn’t sure why she wouldn’t have said something to him. Kanar headed back into the room where Morgan had been, and he found the stack of papers. There was something about them that had caught his eye, though he couldn’t quite place what it was. He began to search through it, shifting the pages around until he saw something.

He frowned. Edward had disappeared?

He froze, looking up, back toward the door.

Was that what Morgan had been after the Alainsith blood for?

“Damn,” he breathed out.

Why hadn’t she said anything?

He could have helped.

But then, Morgan might not have thought that he would have helped.

Kanar raced back out of the home, and the moment he got on the street, he saw several armed men racing toward him.

Where are Jal and Honaaz?

“I don’t have time for this,” he muttered, and he started reaching for his blade before thinking better. He would not cut down these men with a magically enchanted sword that gave him dark power. He didn’t need to.

Instead, he grabbed his daggers.

When the nearest one reached him with sword unsheathed, Kanar noticed the crest on his lapel. Kalenwatch. They weren’t hired help as he had initially suspected, and thankfully, they were not the Dogs. There had been evidence of other groups in the city that Kanar had come across—he wasn’t sure who they were or who they worked for.

The Kalenwatch wouldn’t use witchcraft either. That made this easier.

He drove his knee into one man’s thigh, and the man grunted, twisting. Kanar immediately grabbed

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