Knights of Obsidian (Obsidian Queen Book 3) by Shannon Lynn Cook

Author:Shannon Lynn Cook [Cook, Shannon Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

15

I step a little closer to Jonathan, practically kicking myself for forgetting my Taser.

The man glances over, giving us another smile, and then nods toward our badges. “You here for the fashion convention?”

“That’s right,” Jonathan says.

“Yeah? Cool.” He quickly runs his eyes over us, all friendly like, but it seems like he’s sizing us up. “What do you do?”

“I’m a modeling agent,” Jonathan says smoothly, picking up Eric’s previous cover. “And this is my assistant.”

I force a smile.

“You have a model in the expo?” he asks. “Or are you scouting?”

“Both.”

The man nods several times, and then the conversation dies off. I hadn’t noticed the casino’s elevator music before, but now it sounds like it’s blaring.

Finally, we reach the tenth floor. With a ping alerting us we’ve arrived, the door slides open. The man bids us a casual farewell, his eyes lingering on me for a moment too long, and then we’re alone.

I brace myself against the back wall. Once the doors are closed and we’re moving again, I press my hand to my chest and take a deep breath. “Well? Was that the guy following us?”

“I’m not sure, but he was Aparian.”

“Faction?” I ask.

Jonathan gives me a pointed look. “Urocyan.”

Fox.

“At least he didn’t follow us to our floor,” I say, wondering if we’re being a tiny bit jumpy. Sure, the man was a Fox. Sure, he was acting peculiar, and it looked like he was hiding a gun…

Never mind. I forgot where I was going with this.

“Yeah,” Jonathan answers, “but he saw our floor number on the lift.”

Jonathan opens the door to his and Eric’s room, and I walk inside, passing through the adjoining door to my side.

“I don’t suppose you have an extra gun lying around, do you?” I ask, mostly joking. Mostly.

“Gray would murder me if I gave you a gun.”

I glance back. “You know, I’m a grown woman. I could just buy my own.”

He crosses his arms, giving me a cocky smile. “True, but it takes a few days—and it would set off the metal detectors.”

I wave his concern away, though we both know I’m not serious. “I’d just persuade the guard into letting me through.”

“You’ve certainly been embracing your magic the last few days, haven’t you?” he says with a laugh.

I turn to him, wondering how he feels about that. “Technically, taking Charles out of the crate on the plane was your idea. And Rafe told me to practice.”

A shadow flickers across his face when I mention my knight—but it’s only there for one moment before it disappears. “You can’t control it if you don’t know how to wield it,” he finally agrees.

“Don’t you have your gun and dagger?” I ask, feeling it’s best to return to our original subject. “They didn’t set off the detector.”

“They’re charmed.”

I almost ask where he’s hiding them, and then I realize I probably don’t want to know.

“So,” he says when it gets a little too quiet. “You can cloak other people? That’s…different.”

My chest tightens, and I look away. We haven’t talked about what happened in my bedroom with my parents yesterday.

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