Wicked Game: A Paranormal Romance (Feathers and Fate Book 2) by Sadie Moss

Author:Sadie Moss
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2020-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

TRINITY

I really don’t know what to expect from these challenges, so I’m trying to be ready for anything. But when we hear the challenge announced, I can’t help but cringe.

“Each contestant must attempt to retrieve a gem that’s being protected by a nest of serpencias,” Myron booms out. “The first person to return with the gem wins.”

“Serpencias? What are those?” I whisper to Sawyer, my overactive imagination already conjuring up dozens of deadly possibilities.

“Magically created serpents.”

“Oh.”

Goodness only knows what that means. I’m sure it can’t be anything good. It probably means that these snakes, whatever they are, are going to be much more deadly than your average viper—as if a viper is at all harmless. It’s not, but compared to whatever magical creatures we’re about to run up against… hoo boy.

Myron lays out the guidelines and restrictions of the challenge, and I focus in on every word he says, trying to commit each rule to memory.

There aren’t many.

From the way it sounds, this whole competition is basically a free-for-all, the magical games equivalent of the bareknuckle boxing Ford does back in New York.

Great.

By the time Myron finishes laying out the terms of the challenge and blows a whistle to signal the start of the challenge, my stomach has twisted itself into a tight knot.

“While you do get the most attractive pout when you think, beautiful,” Sawyer drawls, interrupting my spiraling thoughts, “we can’t just stand around all day pondering the secrets of the universe. We have to get to that gem first.”

Right. Okay. Eyes on the prize.

Whatever the issue is, we’ll figure it out when we get there.

Sawyer looks around, contemplating. “Now, I’m no expert on reptiles, but I can imagine they’ll have put the gem somewhere snakes will like. In some kind of cave or burrow?”

We are in a very remote area, with lots of caves around and areas for animals to burrow down into. I nod. “Yeah, that makes sense. We should look for something like that. It’ll be faster if I fly.”

“But you might miss them from high up,” Sawyer counters before I can pop out my wings.

I frown at him. “We have to be faster than our competitors.”

A hot, tingly feeling slides through me—one I recognize by now.

Lust.

I shiver. Sawyer stares at me like he’s starving for me, his amber eyes going dark, and I suppose it’s a small mercy that I’m not the only one who’s affected.

“I think,” he murmurs, his voice dipping down low into an almost-purr, “that our competitors will be a little busy.”

I don’t look around or try to find any of our competitors, but then, I don’t need to. I’ve seen Sawyer at work and I know what he’s doing—he’s making everyone crazy with lust, more focused on sleeping with each other than winning the competition.

Well, that was easy.

I was kind of wondering why Sawyer, out of all the brothers, was so quick to volunteer as my partner in the challenge today, but I can see now why he wanted to.

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