Haunted Blade Colbana Files #6 by J.C. Daniels

Author:J.C. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, paranormal romance, dark fantasy, witches, shapeshifters, amazons, strong women, alphas, sword bearer, shifters books
Publisher: Shiloh Walker

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We’d just lowered the lifeless body of the girl, maybe five, to the ground when a hot prickle energy rolled down my spine. I glanced up, looking for the source.

It took nearly a minute, but down the road, Damon appeared.

Some of his men followed and he stopped with them, gesturing toward the sidewalks.

I watched as the shifters followed whatever direction he’d given. They were too far away, but it wasn’t a stretch to figure out what he’d said.

They’d come to collect their dead.

Tears burned my eyes but I blinked them back before looking down at the little girl. As he approached, I knelt at her side.

“Your alpha is here to take care of you, baby doll,” I murmured, brushing back yellow curls that had gone rusty with blood. Her neck was a bloody mess, chewed through from the back and I could see bone showing through. Misery twisted through me, but I shoved it back. “He would have been here sooner, saved you, if others had given him the chance.”

That he hadn’t been able to was going to eat at him.

One of the Banner boys appeared from between two buildings left mostly still standing. He started toward the road, not far from where I knelt by a dead child. His gaze, like so many of his kind, was ever watchful and it landed on me for a brief moment, then bounced away.

However, it returned a moment later just as I’d reached out and stroked a hand down the girl’s rust-stained curls.

A low growl came from just beyond me and I realized Damon had closed the distance between us without my notice. That was a rare thing, but the distraction in front of me was…understandable.

The growl, a low, ominous noise, came again.

The Banner agent clenched his jaw and straightened his shoulders.

“Damon,” I said, refusing to look back at the girl just yet. I didn’t want to be looking at the man in front of us. But I wasn’t going to let another fight break out on the threshold of her grave.

Taut moments passed, then I heard the deliberate tread of his footsteps behind me.

He said nothing.

But he wouldn’t.

“You should have your men gather up this baby and her family. She deserves…more than this. I told her you’d come care for her.”

My voice hitched.

It wasn’t intentional. But it was one thing to cut the pull between Damon and the Banner agent who’d unwittingly become the focus of his rage.

Damon’s energy, hot with anger and roiling with worry, wrapped around me as he crouched in front of me. He stared at me, eyes searching my face. I had no idea what it was he saw, but after a moment, he looked up and jerked his chin at somebody.

The men and women he brought with him flowed toward us, around us.

I stayed where I was, holding that tiny, delicate hand.

“You got here fast earlier…I was watching for you,” I said, my voice reedy.

“Not fast enough.”

The small hand in mine was cold. But I made myself think of the cries I’d heard earlier.

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