The Elder Blood Chronicles Book 2 Blood Honor and Dreams by Melissa Myers Read Free Book Online

pilot’s seat and placed his
hands on the controls. The panel flickered to life and he began
raising the ship quickly. The draw of magic might attract the
Blights in the city. He had no desire to have them swarming over
his baby like ants. The ship hummed softly and responded to his
touch gracefully. He heard the Blight child hiss behind him and
successfully managed to not flinch. The pain in his shoulder was
fading now but the memory of the wounds was still very fresh. It
would have been embarrassing to die to a child but she was
formidable.
    Charm dropped down in the seat next to him
and leaned back with obvious appreciation. “I need sleep
desperately, but I need answers first. Why did Lutheron send you
here?”
    “Because I could become a Blight. He and
Caspian thought it would be the only way I could get in. They
didn’t think the Blights would attack their own kind unless
provoked and I had no intention of provoking any of them,” Shade
explained. He glanced over to Charm and found the rogue swaying
slightly in the seat. “Caspian said to tell you that you are my
mentor now. He said we would do well together.”
    Charm’s eyes flashed back open and he
regarded Shade with a mixture of emotions. To Shade’s relief there
was only a bit of displeasure present. “Well, if we are to work
together, help me with my first task,” Charm said slowly, his eyes
locked on Shade. “Tell me what to do with Emily. I owe her my life
but I can’t take her to the Fionahold. She looks too much like her
mother and the Fionaveir would resent her for the woman’s death.
Not to mention she is a Blight. They would likely lock her up and
analyze her to find weaknesses.”
    Glancing over his shoulder, he studied the
child for a moment and then looked to Charm. “She helped you and
guarded you?” he asked cautiously.
    “From the moment she saw me,” Charm replied
smoothly.
    “Do you think she would guard another
person?” Shade asked.
    “I suppose it depends on the person,” Charm
said cautiously. “What are you thinking of?”
    “I know someone in Sanctuary we can send her
to. If she would be willing to guard her as fiercely as she was
guarding you, it would benefit them both,” Shade said hesitantly.
“If she stays camouflaged or hides her talons, she could pass as
normal there.”
    “Who?” Charm asked, his voice bordering on
demand.
    “Jala. I doubt you know her. She is
open-minded, though and she has a good heart. If I write a letter
for Emily to give her, Jala will give her a chance,” Shade
explained.
    A smile broke across the rogue’s face and he
nodded slowly. “I hadn’t even thought of that, but you are right.
Jala will give her a chance,” He nodded again to Shade with
approval. “Perhaps we can work well together.”
    “You know Jala?” Shade asked a bit
incredulous.
    “I guarded her when she first arrived in
Sanctuary. I was her shadow,” Charm explained. Leaning out of his
chair, he looked back to Emily. “All you will have to tell her is
you want to be a lighter shade of grey,” He told the child who
looked at him with obvious confusion.
    Shade smirked and nodded once. “That will do
it. Just show yourself to Jala. Don’t show yourself to her husband.
He is an asshole and he won’t listen,” Shade added. He could well
imagine how Finn Sovaesh would react to a Blight, be it child or
not.
    “Husband?” Charm gasped he stared at Shade
with widened eyes. “What husband? Who did she marry?” He asked in
disbelief.
    “Finn Sovaesh. About two weeks ago,” Shade
explained, somehow managing to keep the bitterness from his voice.
While there was no reason she should have left the city with him,
not after he had abandoned her in Rivana, to have her marry Finn
was salt in the wounds.
    “You will have to catch me up to speed after
I’ve slept. Apparently I’ve missed a good deal,” Charm said quietly
and Shade couldn’t tell if it was shock or displeasure in his
voice.
    “Before you go to