The Moon Warriors: A Novella by Kayla Krantz

Author:Kayla Krantz [Krantz, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, adventure, contemporary, 99 cents, romance, witches, supernatural, paranormal, dark, horror, suspense, ebook, fiction
Publisher: Into the Darkness Publishing
Published: 2018-10-27T22:00:00+00:00

12.

MARCUS EVENTUALLY LEADS us to a nice inn. It’s small but being that it’s run by demons, it’s surprisingly cozy. The desk clerk asks no questions and doesn’t even look all that surprised by the idea of a witch and a demon checking into a room together.

Does this happen often? I wonder.

“They don’t seem to care that I’m here,” I whisper as we ascend the winding staircase to our room.

He shrugs. “Why would they?”

“Well, after the whole incident at the bar, I just thought…”

Marcus laughs. “Not everyone is violent, witchy. There are some demons who care more about their own business than other people’s, believe it or not.”

“Whatever the reason, I’m glad for it,” I admit and rumple my hair as we hit the landing onto the next floor.

Marcus smiles but doesn’t speak again until after we get to our room. It’s small and I notice there’s only one bed. I turn to Marcus and raise an eyebrow.

He holds his hands up defensively. “Don’t look at me like that. It was the best I could do.”

“You never did tell me how you got the room,” I muse and cross through the tiny kitchen back to the “bedroom” part of the room.

He dips two fingers into his pocket and emerges with a thin plastic card between them. “You can thank a Mister Michael Tanner for this room.” He tosses the card onto the table beside him and I laugh.

“I never thought I’d be so relieved to be friends with a criminal before.” I sink to the floor, working on untying the knots in the laces of my boots.

The smile falls off of Marcus’ face as he leans against the wall, watching me.

“What?” I ask.

He tucks his lip between his teeth. “Nothing.”

I narrow my eyes and toss my undone shoe at him. “Don’t give me that. I hate that answer.”

He sighs and drops to his knees beside me. “Fine. It’s just, well, Shadow doesn’t seem as if he was all that innocent.”

“Yeah, I’ve thought that,” I admit, going to work on untying my other shoe while at the same time keeping my eyes from letting their tears drip free.

“You’ve done nothing wrong by caring about him, you know?” Marcus says.

I stare harder at my shoes, my twitching fingers shaking more and more by the second and even the easiest of knots would be impossible to undo in this condition.

“You can have the bed,” Marcus says and turns away as if he knows no words will make me feel better at this point.

Maybe he sees the emotion in my hands or the fact that I won’t let him see my face. “Okay,” I say at last and pull myself up onto the sheets.

I watch him take off his jacket and snag one of the pillows off the bed to make a makeshift spot on the floor without a single complaint and all I can do is admire him for it.

“So, why’d you stay?’ I ask finally.

“Huh?” he asks, turning to glance at me over his shoulder.

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