Lightbringer by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-12-31T18:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

THE DARKNESS

Chapter Twenty-Three

SMOKESCREEN

“I called your shifts,” I said. “I didn’t know I could do that.”

“It was a strange feeling,” Clayton said.

We sat in the kitchen, Rhys, Clayton, Shane, Leo, and I, waiting for Angus to return. I hoped that somehow the King of Everything would know how to handle the executioners, but I was pretty sure that if he could have, he already would have. He wouldn’t need us to ask.

“Yeah,” Rhys agreed. “It was like you were inside me and had my beast by the throat. You were dragging him out and all I could do was run. And even then, I nearly lost control.”

“But you’re a dragon,” Leo said. “Not even her call could force you to shift. But the others couldn’t fight her.”

They nodded. Maybe someday that ability would come in handy.

“You should leave town,” I told Rhys.

Rhys shocked me by nodding. “I have a plan. It may not work—probably won’t—but I’m going to take off and cause some ruckus far from here.” He shrugged. “Maybe that will convince him the dragon doesn’t live in Bay Town.”

“Burn a path across the country,” Leo said. “Make him think you’re passing through and not settled anywhere. You don’t want to bring trouble to another town.”

That was Leo. No matter what was going on, he was concerned for other people.

“Agreed,” Rhys said.

Neither of them seemed very convinced Rhys’s plan would work. Safin was a smart guy and he had his mind made up. He would know that the dragon would try to throw up a few smokescreens.

But it was a plan, and it was better than the nothing we currently had.

Clayton sat at the table, his throat wound still open and glistening, but it looked better than it had when I’d first walked into the room.

“Can I do anything for you?” I asked him.

“I’ll heal,” he murmured, his voice raw and low. It hurt him to talk, so I didn’t question him further.

I nodded, then blew out a hard breath and pushed away from the table. “Shane,” I said.

He looked at me, surprise in his eyes before he blanked them. “Yeah?”

“You’re hungry.” I held out my hand. “Let me feed you.”

I could feel his hunger. He was starving himself, and it showed in his dull eyes, his dry, pale skin, and his sharp cheekbones.

He ignored my hand. “When I want to eat, I’ll eat.” Then he stood and disappeared through the back doorway.

“Fuck,” I muttered, irritated, disappointed, and just a little hurt. I shouldn’t have been—it was his right to refuse me—but I was. “He’s stubborn.”

“Give him time,” Rhys said. “He’ll come around.”

“He’s starving,” I said, a little too sharply. “There is no time.”

“All it will take is a drop of your blood on his lips,” Rhys said. “He won’t resist you then.”

I thought about it. I’d force-fed him after I’d captured him. I could attempt it again, but any trickery on my part was going to drive him farther away.

I’d wait for as long as I could.

But he had to feed.

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