Shadow's Awakening: The Shadow Warder Series, Book One (An Urban Fantasy Romance Series) by Molle McGregor

Author:Molle McGregor [McGregor, Molle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Ginger Quill Press
Published: 2014-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Hold it up higher and throw it at me.” From a relaxed sprawl in the sunny clearing behind the cabin Conner watched the stick hover in the air above Hannah. She found it more than a little annoying that he was so unconcerned. He’d asked her to hit him with the stick. Was he so certain she’d miss? Gathering her concentration, Hannah propelled the stick through the air at Conner. It traveled at a satisfying speed before he snatched it out of the air. She still hadn’t gotten used to how quickly he moved when he wanted to.

“Try again,” he said, tossing the stick back. “You need to get more force behind it.”

“I want to do something else. Why won’t you teach me how to fight? This isn’t going to do me much good.” Hannah knew she sounded like a child trying to avoid a lesson, but throwing things wasn’t making her feel any more self-sufficient. She could throw the stick harder and with better accuracy using her hand than her mind. She wanted to be able to defend herself.

“There’s no point in teaching you to fight. We don’t have enough time for you to learn anything useful. If you run into trouble, you have two skills—resonating and telekinesis. I don’t want you getting close enough to someone dangerous to fight them. You’re much better off keeping your distance and trying to send them away with your mind or using your Tk.”

“That sounds so weak,” Hannah complained. “Try to think them away while I toss sticks at them?”

“Only if you can’t run. If you can run, do that.”

Hannah took a deep breath, trying to stem her irritation. She knew Conner was right. In the movies a novice could learn all of kung fu in a quick montage. In real life it took years of training to fight like Conner. Even shooting a gun took time to learn. Hannah had never held a weapon, much less fired one. She was completely unequipped to protect herself. It was smarter to improve the few skills she did have than to try to learn new ones she had no hope of mastering. Knowing it was true didn’t make it any less boring or annoying.

“Give me a minute,” she said, lying back in the grass and closing her eyes. She needed a quick break to get her head in the game. They’d spent too much time in bed and not enough time on work. That was fine by her. By his own admission Conner had said he didn’t have a lot to teach her. The sooner they ran out of lessons, the sooner he’d bring her to the city and deliver her to the Shadows. Their time together would end and she’d likely never see Conner again. Hannah wasn’t ready for that.

They’d chosen their current arrangement, about twenty feet apart in the small clearing behind the cabin, for the sake of practicality. If they were within arm’s length of each other nothing would get done.

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