Deal with the Dragon (Immortals Ever After Book 1) by Nicole Blanchard

Author:Nicole Blanchard [Blanchard, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-21T23:00:00+00:00

13

Elena

Déjà vu flooded me as I worked to mend the wound like I had with the tenant farmer before my life changed. The gash spanned most of his chest and was so deep it swallowed most of my longest finger. The biggest worry was dragon’s bane, but I didn’t detect the signature astringent scent signifying its presence.

Leisha’s hands shook as she passed me supplies. I saw her peer warily out the carriage door at Rhys’s men. “Do you think we should leave him and return home?”

I couldn’t have heard her right. “What? No. If we do that, he’ll bleed out.”

She sent me a significant, measuring look. “You mean you want to stay mated to… to this beast?”

Muddling through my thoughts with Rhys’s blood staining my hands took significant effort. “I wouldn’t have consented to be bound to him in the first place if I didn’t.”

“My lady, I don’t mean to be rude, but we could escape now. His men are wounded and in disarray. You could go back into hiding in another temple or go back to your brother. Gideon would help you.”

I pressed a hand to my forehead. “Leisha, you aren’t making any sense whatsoever. Gideon helped to arrange our binding. It would make no sense for him to undo all that work. Now be quiet and help me staunch the flow of blood.”

She bit her tongue, but I could sense the words she left unsaid. I didn’t have time to entertain her nonsense, not when Rhys was growing especially pale before my very eyes. Leisha must be frightened by the attack and it was making her say things she didn’t mean. She’ll feel better when we got to the ship and set sail for the Northlands.

A headache brewed behind my eyes as I tried to focus on the slippery flesh clenched between my fingers in the dying light. Minutes blended together until finally, I released the breath I’d been holding and looked up. Rhys’s men gathered around the carriage entrance.

“Will he be all right, my lady?” the one called Berrick asked.

Grimly, I replied, “We’ll know if he wakes up.”

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