River Cast: Part Two in the Tale of Lunarmorte (41 page)

“
She wouldn’t
have dared hurt her.” Ryder shook his head in denial.

A darkening beast was
uncurling in Lucien’s chest, growing stronger and more furious
every minute he stared at the blood on his truck door. Caia had
been missing for an hour. She had gone missing after Marion had
turned up. The beast roared with bloodlust.

“
We better
hope she hasn’t,” he ripped out in a voice he didn’t recognise, “Or
my muzzle is the last thing she’ll ever see.”

Epilogue - The
Deception

Caia’s head throbbed with
impossible pain, a pain that shot from the bloody lump on the back
of her head down her arms and into her back. She blinked, her eyes
adjusting in the darkness of the cold, damp room she now found
herself in. She hit up against something hard. As the light
filtered into her eyes she realised she was in a metal cage. Bile
rose up in her throat, her heart pounding with terror. What had
happened? Where was she? Oh goddess, had Marita kidnapped her? A
door opened with a burst of artificial light revealing the face of
the distinguished man who stepped quietly into the room.

“
Who are
you?” She asked immediately, her hand wrapping around the bars. It
was then she realised that a glow surrounded the cage. Magik. A
shield to stop her attacking with her own.

He winced as he looked her
over. “He hit you harder than he should have.”

“
Who are you?
How did I get here?”

“
Take a
moment, Caia.”

At those words her trace
began tingling with its familiar icy vapour and Caia slumped back
in disbelief.“Nikolai?” She gasped.

“
Well done.”
He smiled gently at her, and she pushed trying to feel his intent.
Pain exploded in her head. She was too weak from the knock she had
taken.

“
How?” She
managed.

He stepped aside from the
doorway and another figure strode in, a smug smile on his face.
“I’d like to introduce you to someone. This is Kirios,
Caia.”

Kirios’ dark hair flopped
over his forehead in familiar disarray, his pale handsomeness a
punch to the gut...

She snarled in impotent
fury.

“
Reuben.”

The End

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Samantha Young graduated
from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, where she studied ancient
and medieval history. Sam enjoys incorporating her love of history
into her writing, and is currently living in her home county of
Stirlingshire, Scotland, doing just that.

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