Hearts of Shadow (Deadglass #2) by Kira Brady

Author:Kira Brady [Brady, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2013-05-07T07:00:00+00:00

The Crow was a dead man. Leif burst through the rotting timbers of the house and let his rage fuel the Aether change. The man had put his hands on Grace. Leif’s vision, always green and blue in dragon form, burned red. Smoke poured from his long snout. His rage fused the pistons of his reasoning so that he couldn’t move forward from this one driving thought: destroy his enemy.

“No, Regent!” Zetian moved to stop him. “You’ll ruin everything.”

He heard her, but the words didn’t penetrate. He stretched his cramped wings and shrieked, the primeval roar that was more pterodactyl than lion.

His prey heard. The cheroot fell from between the man’s lips. He dropped Grace, and she landed on her butt in the dirt. He raised his crossbow just as Leif pulled completely free from the house. His aim didn’t waver, tracking Leif’s dragon heart even as he pushed into the air.

Grace tackled the man around the knees, pushing him off his feet and into the mud. The arrow flew wide.

She protected him.

It was all he needed to break the rage and bring his control back in line. She’d seen an arrow pointed at his breast and lunged, instinctively, to save his life. A single arrow wouldn’t slow him down, but all that mattered was her intent. Protecting the monster now, was she?

Grace would never admit it.

He could never forget it. He pulled that memory to him and curled it like a burning coal in the deep hollow of his heart.

Redirecting his flight, he soared up into the thin stream of moonlight. It slipped from between the clouds like a ripple of honey. Lake Washington spread black as an oil slick to the north. In his memory, the electric haze of a million city lights twinkled from around the lake. A blink, this civilization. Carved out from the forest depths in a flash of inspiration, only to crumble like sand castles beneath the ocean waves.

Zetian hadn’t followed him from the house.

Unease crept up his spine. He followed the trail of moonlight back down to the field of brown grass to find the first lurching soldiers of Ishtar’s army. Grace stood at the ready. The moonlight glinted off the blade in her hand. On her left hunched her thin friend, Oscar, with a rifle at his shoulder. She stood elbow to elbow on her right with the man who would be dead. The Kivati warriors spread out the line, crossbows ready. The humans waited between the coal wagons as a second line of defense. Not much of one, not if the aptrgangr got past the trained fighters.

Damn it. Zetian had argued Kingu would be too busy stalking Corbette to worry about the Tablet of Destiny. Why search for a silly bit of rock when one could have all the powers of a goddess? But Lord Kai had the Tablet shard, and now the aptrgangr were here. Zetian wanted to draw Kingu out. She convinced Leif they would simply observe and rule out the Tablet should nothing happen.

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