Darkness Rising (Queen's Wraith Book 4) by G.K. Lund

Author:G.K. Lund [Lund, G.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788293663713
Publisher: Northern Quill Press
Published: 2022-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

“So this Kamra is a hybrid too? Two of them? I hardly thought one was possible,” Harmiston said an hour later when they neared Count Elasatra’s townhouse. Nadia had decided to let Harmiston in on things since he seemed adamant about coming along. She wasn’t a Wraith anymore, and despite being used to working alone, she found she didn’t need or have to stop him. She quite enjoyed his company. He was a calming influence, even today. The black shirt she wore over her clothes, hid her better than the light blue one had. It wasn’t her coat, but it did the trick. Besides, it had a faint scent of Harmiston on it. She studied him out of the corner of her eye, where he walked, self-assured yet non-threatening. He was so different from anyone she spent any prolonged time with. He was at ease in his own skin and in who he was. She truly admired that. She’d learned many things from the Wraiths, one of them being that brute force did not character build.

“Nadia?”

“What?”

“I thought Wraiths never spaced out,” he commented with a laugh. “I asked about this Kamra. A second hybrid?”

“Oh, yes,” Nadia told him what little she knew from having spotted her inside Kassemyr’s home. For all his talkative ways, Harmiston hadn’t said much when she’d told him of how she’d figured out who he was after following Darrow. She’d also told him of Darrow’s werewolf followers, and the vamps that had now likely joined forces with Kassemyr, judging by the attack on the city. And then there was Kamra. The red-headed were-vamp hybrid who’d attacked the Wraiths and murdered their necromancer prisoner right outside the Cube.

“Wow,” Harmiston blurted when she was done telling him everything. “You really got close to these people.”

“And never told the Wraiths. Don’t forget that.”

Harmiston scoffed. “You had your reasons.”

Nadia stopped and stared at him. The utter conviction in his voice surprised her. “You really mean that, don’t you?”

He shrugged and turned toward her. “Of course.”

“Are you sure you’re not a little too trusting?” She had never trusted anyone implicitly but the Wraiths. Outside of the Queen’s guard, she only had her brother, Aksel, Victoria, Nell, and Neelofar—people who had never given her reason to doubt them.

“A person needs to be trusting, Nad. If one out of ten friends were to betray me, then I would still have nine true friends. It would be heartbreaking, but I would still be a well-off man. I’ve never been afraid to take a chance on someone because the chances are in your favor when you do, especially if you add a little common sense to the equation.”

Nadia smiled then. She’d seen photos of people who had to be his friends, and maybe family members too on the wall of his living room and on the fridge in his kitchen. She realized she had never inquired too much about his life outside the Cube. Until a few days ago, it had been unrealistic to even think she could be part of it.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.