Signs of Cupidity by Kennedy Raven

Author:Kennedy, Raven [Kennedy, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Humour, Adult
ISBN: 9781405960779
Amazon: B0CF6MGJN1
Goodreads: 196017169
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-08-23T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

I continue to walk beside the guys, absentmindedly scratching my arm where my itch used to be. I like to keep up on it. Just in case.

“You keep doing that and you’re not going to have any skin left there,” Evert says.

I shrug and stop scratching. “Can’t be too careful. I’m telling you, don’t ever let an itch go. You have no idea how that oversight can haunt you.”

He shakes his head at me like he can’t quite get a grasp on the things I do or say. “Do you—”

Evert’s words are cut off suddenly as a giant shadow leaps out at us from the side and crashes into him.

I scream and trip, falling backwards on my butt. It takes a few seconds for my mind to catch up with what I’m seeing.

There’s a big beast trying to maul Evert as they grapple on the ground. Its fur is dark gray in color, and it has curling horns on its head and huge fangs that stick out of its lips, its hackles raised menacingly.

It has claws like talons and a short, stubby tail. It’s bigger than me, and probably at least a hundred pounds heavier. Where the hell did this thing come from? In a moment, the beast has tackled Evert onto his back, and another one comes running to attack him, too. The beast pins him down, going for his throat with its huge fangs.

But suddenly Sylred is there, grappling with it, trying to get it off Evert. Evert manages to knock the second beast off of him and grabs its throat in a headlock while he reaches for his knife.

I’m still sitting frozen on the spot where I fell down like an idiot until I feel the hairs on the back of my neck rise.

Uh-oh.

I turn my head slowly, and my heart drops when I see two more beasts right behind me.

“Emelle, fly!”

I’m not sure which of them yells it at me, but I don’t have to be told twice. I scramble to my feet and bend my knees, launching myself into the air as high as I can just as the beasts launch themselves at me.

I stretch out my wings and flap desperately. Both beasts jump for me, barely missing my feet. I tuck my knees to my chest and keep flapping, gaining pathetic inches up, but it’s the best I can do.

I try to use every single breeze to my advantage as I flap frantically, but I’m just not high enough to catch any real wind. It takes everything in me to keep myself off the ground.

I steal a look behind me but wish I hadn’t. “Shit.” They’re following me.

They’re right below, running after me and showing no signs of slowing or stopping. I keep going, my heart hammering with fear as they snap their jaws and continue to take running leaps at me that I barely dodge. But I’m tiring. I know I can’t keep going like this for much longer.

I maneuver around the trees, twisting and turning around them, desperately trying to not crash into one.

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