Rylee by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Urban Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2016-05-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

WE RAN THROUGH the underground parking lot and out into the bright sunshine. I blinked, my eyes watering as they adjusted, and for a minute, I thought maybe I was seeing things. Because really, how could I be seeing what I was seeing? They were all supposed to be dead.

Then again, I’d been wrong before.

Five black skinned ogres ranged in front of us. Five of the toughest, meanest, most bloodthirsty of all the ogre tribes blocked our path. The tribes of black skinned ogres were bar none the worst to deal with. Moody, angry, and prone to violence. Kinda sounded like me, actually.

“Shit,” I muttered.

The biggest of the ogres, who stood easily nine feet tall and three feet across the shoulders, stepped forward. “You’re in our territory. Trespassers are killed on sight.”

“Fuck off, your territory is south. Portland,” I snapped, wishing I’d left Ito’s lame ass behind, he was going to slow us down. I had him tucked under one arm, like an oversized football. Not exactly agile for maneuvering.

He pointed to his chest. “Pic is my name. Our tribe has held the Seattle area for three hundred years. We do not associate with the southern ogres.”

“What, are they the white trash cousins everyone is embarrassed to see show up for Thanksgiving dinner?” I grinned, unable to help myself.

His lips twitched, and for a second, I thought I might have won him over. “They are weak, cowardly, and stupid.”

“Can’t disagree with that. I’ve killed my fair share of them,” I said. Anything to get us out of here in one piece.

With his free hand, he swept out a broadsword easily four-feet long, but the real feature was the split in the blade. As if two swords had been welded at the hilt and part way up the blade was then allowed to spread north and south. The other four ogres nodded in agreement. I noted there was no foul language flowing from him. Maybe that meant he was more civilized? Somehow I doubted my theory.

“You understand then that they are weak if they are able to be killed by a puny girl like you,” he said.

“Puny girl. That’s a new one,” I said, and normally I’d tell him to take his puny sword and shove it up his asshole, but I was trying to play nice. Kinda.

“Well, we’re leaving, so no offense, but I didn’t know it was your territory.”

He pointed his blade at me, and eight humans in TSA uniforms stepped out from behind us, guns raised, aimed at . . . not the ogres, but me. Seriously? What the fuck was going on? I slowly put Ito down. He was about to be on his own. He groaned but didn’t open his eyes as I lowered him.

Pic smiled. “We learned that a few well-placed humans were integral to survival in this world.”

“No way I can talk you out of this?” I tried one last time. Because I was pretty sure I couldn’t kill them all. And then there were the triplets at home.

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