Pursue by W.J. May

Author:W.J. May
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fae, fantasy witches, fantasy new adult, paranormal shifter romance, shifter romance, coming of age, vampires, vampires and witches, shifters, shifter, dark fantasy, superhero fantasy ebooks, witches, superhero, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, New Adult & College Romance Paranormal, Fairy, new adult, new adult and college, New Adult & College Romance, w.j. may, chronicles of kerrigan, supernatural, romance, mystery, superpowers, paranormal, boarding school, series, magic, fairytale, fairy tale, sequel series, sequel, Arthurian, dragons, LGBTQ
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2024-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“I will try...the rum.”

Kiera stood at the end of the bar, twisting her fingers nervously together, while casting a look at the staircase and trying to appear calm. The scene was a familiar one. Downstairs in a tavern, cushioned between the crowds of people, and the crowds of bottles lining the wall. A man had just taken her order, but his ears were ringing with a never-ending chorus of voices, and it was too late in his shift to give any facial reaction. He read the word rum on her lips, and disappeared.

Yes, it was a familiar scene. One she’d visited a thousand times.

There was a single difference.

She was standing on the other side of the bar.

The rest of the day had passed quickly, especially considering the long stretch of sunlit hours in the middle. Whatever the fae had written in his other letters, waxing poetic as he tried to coax the small flames of their revolution to life, the same courtesy was not extended to the dwarves. It was bad enough he was being forced to write them. He would be as perfunctory, as he was brief.

Not ten minutes after he’d vanished into the tower, he returned again—swearing off birds of every sort, and insisting they return to the tavern before he starved. Once there, the friends decided to remain—each of them having secretly reached their newfound social threshold for the day.

She had fully supported this idea. She had even planted the seeds, murmuring that she was tired and asking if they could eat what they’d purchased in the relative quiet of their rooms.

The men agreed without complaint, but no sooner had she emptied her plate, than she was on her feet again. Restless and pacing, wearing a trail in front of the window.

As the sun dropped behind the horizon, the immortals retired to their room in the vague search of sleep or something like it. Jesse lasted only a few minutes longer, half-submerging in the tub before he dragged himself across the bedroom and collapsed beneath the covers himself.

She’d stared at him a full minute, debating whether to crawl in alongside. His breathing slowed, and steadied, and when it became clear he was sleeping, the decision came to her all at once and she grabbed her cloak—fastening it beneath her chin and walking straight back downstairs.

For my drink...

There were rules about this sort of thing, though they’d never been said expressly. After so many nights, during which things had gone so terribly wrong, it was simply assumed the friends would stick together. No late-night wandering, no slipping back to the tavern by themselves. If these rules applied to anyone, it was most certainly Kiera. But with the self-confidence of a girl who’d recently absorbed the powers of a dragon and incinerated a warlord’s army, she walked downstairs.

She then proceeded to panic.

“How would you like it?”

Her head snapped up when the bartender returned, gripping a bottle in one hand, and an empty glass in the other. She had

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