Destined for a King (2016)
“The soft glow of the moon ought to reveal the pacing of the guards on the parapet, but in the shadows, nothing stirred.
He didn’t like it.
The branches below him rustled. Reaching for his knife, he looked down. In the next instant, the whistled twitter of a thrush broke the night stillness. Following the signal, Wolf’s face appeared among the leaves.
“What news?” he called quietly.
“The scouts have seen nothing.”
The hairs raised on the back of his neck. “Nothing, as in nothing out of the ordinary or nothing at all?”
“The second.”
Torch pressed his lips together. Calista might have called this anxious feeling a premonition. She might have even told him what it meant, except he’d left her at his sanctuary. Before the sun rose, he’d see battle of one kind or another. A fight was no place for his wife. “Something isn’t right. It has to be a trap.”
He wasn’t even completely convinced he should be here. Visions and premonitions and feelings. They’d proven untrustworthy, but Calista had bee...n so damned certain.MoreLess
He didn’t like it.
The branches below him rustled. Reaching for his knife, he looked down. In the next instant, the whistled twitter of a thrush broke the night stillness. Following the signal, Wolf’s face appeared among the leaves.
“What news?” he called quietly.
“The scouts have seen nothing.”
The hairs raised on the back of his neck. “Nothing, as in nothing out of the ordinary or nothing at all?”
“The second.”
Torch pressed his lips together. Calista might have called this anxious feeling a premonition. She might have even told him what it meant, except he’d left her at his sanctuary. Before the sun rose, he’d see battle of one kind or another. A fight was no place for his wife. “Something isn’t right. It has to be a trap.”
He wasn’t even completely convinced he should be here. Visions and premonitions and feelings. They’d proven untrustworthy, but Calista had bee...n so damned certain.MoreLess
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