The Last God by Norris Black

Author:Norris Black [Black, Norris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pale Feather Publishing
Published: 2021-02-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

"Again?"

I cringed at the tone in Mara's voice.

"Is this some newfound hobby of yours? Dragging unconscious blonde women around the city like they're some sort of fashion accessory?" She peered closer at Dagda's sleeping face. "Wait... is this the same one? The Seraph? What in the hells have you been up to!"

Showing up on Mara's doorstep in the middle of the night was a breach of etiquette for sure. Showing up in the middle of the night with a passed-out Seraph on your arm was something else entirely. Now to do that twice in the span of a week? That required the absolute fastest of talking.

"It's not like that, she just had a few too many. Girl can't handle her whiskey."

Mara looked at me with angry eyes that quickly softened to concern. She studied my face thoroughly. The Seraph healers had done an admirable job in patching me up, but I knew I still wore plenty of the marks left by my stay in their dungeon.

"Well, don't just stand there, come in." She stepped aside to let me pass and I grunted as I guided the snoring Dagda to a nearby cushion. With a sigh of relief, I laid her down before standing and stretching my aching back.

"Have you ever considered getting a ground floor apartment? Those stairs are fucking murder."

"I like the view and besides, why don't you just take the elevator?"

"That deathtrap? I have enough things trying to kill me as it is. I don't need to add an inanimate object to the top of the list."

"Deathtrap?" She harrumphed at me as she gently laid a blanket over the sleeping Seraph and snugged it under her chin. Louie appeared as if out of thin air and curled up into a tight ball on top of the sheet. Soon his soft snores joined hers in duet. "I'll have you know I pay good money to have a nice young fellow come out once a month to service it. It's probably in better shape now than when it was first installed."

I stared at her, mouth agape. It had been working all this time? Well shit.

"Alright, now let me take a look at you." She guided me to the ruffian cushion and sat me down. She took my jaw in one small but strong hand and turned my head one way and then the next. All the while she studied me with large, amber eyes, her face inches from mine.

"It looks like you'll survive. A week or two and most of those bruises will be gone, though I see you've lost a tooth at the back there." She let go of my face and moved to a cushion opposite mine. "Now, do you mind telling me what in the Fallen's name happened to you, and why you're suddenly drinking buddies with pretty young Seraphs? The last we spoke you were on your way to Happy Jack. I heard he got hit by a Seraph raid. I assume you got caught up in that?"

I nodded.

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