Prowess Trials by Alex Lidell

Author:Alex Lidell [Lidell, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

8

Lera

I stare dumbly at River. The ice slithering over my skin morphs to a prickling heat.

My mouth is dry, my heart knocking against my ribs, echoing through the small chamber. “Have you lost your mind?” I enunciate each word as if speaking to someone slow of thought. “I’m the one who’s been telling you nonstop that you have a problem with the Night Guard. Why would I be working with the very people I’ve been openly trying to stop?”

A low growl escapes beneath River’s breath. “I saw you. Right before the arena went up in flames.”

“Doing what?” My voice rises, drowning out the clamor in the Great Hall below.

“Doing magic.” River’s fingers flex at his side, his voice never rising above a dangerous murmur. “You were angry. You extended your hands. You set the fire.”

“I was trying to stop Han from murdering Tye in cold blood!” My nostrils flare, drawing in the musk of the antechamber with every breath. “Maybe if you’d been paying attention to that bastard instead of trotting around doing Sage’s job for him, you could have stopped that little problem before it happened.”

I’ve struck a nerve. River leans over me, his teeth flashing as he speaks. “Then you don’t deny setting the fire?”

I rise on the balls of my feet, forcing him to lean back, taking up the air between us as effectively as he did. “By accident, not by Night Guard order.”

The male steps back, his face paler than it was moments ago, the sudden silence in the room as loud as thunder. “So Zake told me the truth. You are fae.”

River hadn’t believed Coal’s claim and had gone to talk to Zake himself. I exhale in a sharp puff, my thoughts tearing between gratitude that none of Zake’s words set off River’s amulet and annoyance at which highlights the pompous immortal ass decided to focus on. “How do you talk to Zake and walk away thinking that I’m the fae you need to worry about? Or did the impending Night Guard attack not bloody come up?”

River flips his wrist, sliding a knife from his sleeve into his palm. “Show me your true self, fae.” He spits the last word like a slur.

“You’re pulling a knife on me?” I shove River in the chest and am as surprised as the male himself when he stumbles back into the wall behind him. Blood rushes loudly in my ears, the whole antechamber feeling hot as blazing furnace. “Do you actually think, with any shred of logic, that I’m working with the Night Guard?”

“I think you’re working toward your own end, and always have been.” River snarls and pushes himself off the wall to regain his coiled fighting stance. I can’t believe we’ve come to this, facing each other like two enemies on a battlefield. “I said, let me see you.”

Before I have time to second-guess it, I reach to the back of my neck and snap open the clasp. The dreaded relic clatters to the stone floor with a high-pitched ting, a weight lifting off my senses at once.

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