Lie Down with Dogs (Black Dog Book 3) by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

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A roar jolted me out of a dreamless sleep. I bolted upright, tossed aside my covers and swung my legs off the bed. Righty sat in a chair pulled beside the door leading into our hotel room. He pointed at the foot of my bed where my now-panther-sized cat twitched his whiskers and flexed his paws in the throes of some phantom hunt.

According to Diode, the guards’ magic had scrambled his charm in transit. No loss there. It had almost petered out on its own anyway. As to their method of travel, he summed up all I needed to know in two words: plausible deniability.

A shadow slanted across the curtains, and my heart stuttered.

“It’s only Daire,” Righty said. “You should sleep.”

No, I shouldn’t. Rook waited for me in dreams. Only he hadn’t been up to visiting lately. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. For the sake of making my next one hundred years more bearable, I kept cracking open the door to friendship with him. That lasted for a few hours, days. Then he found a new way to betray me, and I shut it in his face. Had life in Faerie twisted him until even his best intentions were doomed to fail? Did he even know what honesty was? Was he capable of putting another’s welfare ahead of his own?

I didn’t know, and that warped curiosity kept me doling out second and third and fourth chances.

I slid to my feet and checked on Mai. Sleeping soundly. “I’m going to get some air.”

Righty gave me a tight nod.

The balcony here was longer than at our previous digs, but just as narrow. I stepped out into the humid night and shut the sliding glass door behind me. Inhaling brought the smell of dumpsters and a burger joint. I sneezed the pollutants from my nose then propped my elbows on the railing and gazed up at the stars.

Another scent hit me, earthy and spiked with hints of citrus, but I chose to ignore it—and him.

“It’s late,” a low voice rumbled on my left.

“Really?” I faked surprise. “For your next trick, maybe you can explain those dots of light in the sky.”

Shaw emerged from the shadows wrapping his balcony. “Street lamps or stars, take your pick.”

I thinned my lips in answer. “What are you doing out here?”

His eyes glinted. “Think about it.”

“One guard covering the front entrance. There are windows, so a second guard positioned inside the room.” I straightened. “That makes you the guy guarding the exit. Are we in that much danger?”

He speared me with a look. “You tell me.”

“The gray men aren’t a threat. They wanted us gone, we’re gone. I don’t see them caring one way or the—”

“Selkies.” He bit off the word. “There were selkies in Daytona? They threatened you?”

“Yes and yes.” I blinked innocently at him. “Didn’t I mention them?”

“No,” he snapped.

“Huh.” I started braiding the ends of my hair. “I could have sworn they came up.”

“Why would a pod of selkies threaten someone like you? They’re a peaceful people.

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