Reap the Dark by Elle Thorne & Katie Zuniga

Author:Elle Thorne & Katie Zuniga [Thorne, Elle & Zuniga, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbed Borders Press
Published: 2023-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Ten

“Are you going to say anything or only glare at me all night?”

The flames that had been tightly coiled around Dominic’s arms and shoulders flared. I was on the couch in the living room, impatiently waiting for my wounds to heal.

Dominic had checked me over twice, his touch far gentler than I thought possible of him right then. Bishop stood near the windows with his two guards posted at the front doors.

“You two can continue arguing if you want,” I said, noting Bishop’s brief smirk at my remark.

He’d been watching me closely since I’d arrived. Like the night I first met him, when he took a drop of my blood in exchange for the Bleeding Crown, there was an intrigued glint in his glowing red eyes. Like I was a riddle he struggled to find an answer to.

Dominic leaning forward to peer at the slashes and stabs on my torso distracted me from Bishop’s attention. “You’re healing. Finally,” Dominic grumbled.

“That’s good news. See? Nothing to worry about.”

His entire body became inflamed. “Explain. Now.”

Dominic had been too focused on my wounds to listen to my story about the fight in the alley. I still wasn’t convinced he could handle my telling him. I braced to get up, but his hand landed on my thigh. His breathing increased. Though I couldn’t feel it, from the way his fire kept flickering, his heart was racing. Learning about his age and knowing how in control of his power a mage his age would be, now witnessing his fire ready to lose control told me how close to the edge I’d pushed him lately. This was the second time I’d shown up at his place, wounded and covered in blood. As curious as I was to see the full might of his power, now wasn’t the best time. And I really didn’t want him to set the entire building on fire. Not with us in it.

I covered his hand with mine and settled on the couch. “You weren’t responding to my texts, and I got worried. So I was walking home from the bar.”

Dominic’s eyes flicked to Bishop. “I was preoccupied.”

“It’s not his fault I was attacked by a hitman,” I blurted.

Dominic’s heavy gaze returned to me. “A hitman? You mean a Joker?”

“No. I’m pretty sure this jackass wasn’t a fed.” I hesitated, and Dominic’s grip on my thigh tensed. “I think he was hired by Nate, off the books.”

Bishop was a blur of movement. Suddenly he stood beside the coffee table. He dipped his fingers into the white powder I’d shown them. It was on the table, exactly where Dominic had left it. “This is high-end binding magic,” Bishop murmured, rubbing some between the pads of his fingers. “Not easy to come by. And very expensive.”

“That wasn’t all he had on him either. He had a pair of blades.” I quickly detailed the fight. When I reached the part about stabbing the guy in the back of the neck, Dominic’s lips curled in a dark, satisfied grin.

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