Shards (Dragon Reign Book 2) by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave [Bladegrave, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-01T18:30:00+00:00

13

Craig

I shot upright, shaking my head to clear away the sleep and the nightmare that threatened to consume me.

Raghnall had been there, leering down at me as he held the Executioner blade, but it hadn’t been aimed at me.

Kate.

He’d been about to kill Kate, and I was powerless to stop him.

Deciding I’d slept enough, I stood and stretched.

Forrest gave a quiet growl in his sleep, but remained out. Since there were no skeletal beings in here trying to kill us, I felt it safe to assume the shield held.

Grumbling, I strode around the room looking for Kate. I wanted to talk to her more. Not to apologize. She was being reckless for no reason, and it had to stop, but realizing that she might wind up dead at the end of this adventure would shake up anyone.

I scoured the room, and my heart thudded faster, as my palms tingled, realizing Kate wasn’t in the room.

I didn’t think she’d be dumb enough to go back outside by herself, but I was hurrying towards the rope when I noticed the double doors were open.

“Damn it, Kate,” I whispered and grabbing a torch, walked for the doors.

I knew she lied when I asked if she knew what was behind the doors. Why she felt the need to wander off alone only made me decide not to give her a pep talk, but tell her she wasn’t allowed out of my or Forrest’s sight, not after seeing what was on that wall. Or the tapestry.

Touching anything in this place could set her off and if she was alone when it happened…

I froze in the short corridor when I heard her voice, but it didn’t exactly sound like Kate. It sounded off, deeper, more guttural as it had when she was whispering at the tapestry.

I started walking again, slower this time, but the intensity of her words increased, and soon I found myself running through the corridor and bursting through another set of double doors.

The room was massive, and Kate stood in the center of it, torch in a death grip in her right hand, staring straight ahead of her.

“Kate?” I said as I approached. “Kate, can you hear me?”

I reached out and rested a hand on her shoulder to pull her around, and her fist connected with my nose.

I cursed, dropping the torch as she came at me again.

Her torch hit the ground, and I caught another punch to the jaw before I snagged her wrists, spun her around, and wrapped my arms securely around her.

“Kate! Snap out of it!”

She snarled, snapping her jaws as she tried to bite me.

“Kate! It’s Craig! Just stop!” I didn’t want to have to knock her out as I did before, but if she didn’t stop trying to kill me again, I’d have no choice. “Kate, come back to me. Whatever you’re seeing, it’s not real.”

Finally, she stilled and her body sagged in my arms. She shook her head, nearly clocking me in the face again. “Craig?”

“Yeah, love, it’s me.

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