When Silver Moons Rise (Lost Immortals Saga #2) by KaSonndra Leigh Read Free Book Online Page B

feelings for me a few months ago. Even though he has respectfully bowed out of the race according to him, I still don’t want to put any of my friends in danger again. Especially one who might let his concern for me cloud his judgment.
    “Promise,” he urges.
    “Why Jalen? I already have someone in mind. Trust me when I tell you that no one is going to mess with the person I chose to tag along with me. She’s harder than most guys,” I say, trying to convince him.
    Micah rolls his eyes and shakes his head a bit. “She? A girl is going to protect you?”
    “Yes. Why not?” I say, my ears heating a bit. It’s a lot better than a lovesick boy who won’t do anything but get hurt because he’ll be so worried about me.
    “I want someone who isn’t like any of us to be there for you,” he pleads. I understand his concern, but he sees things differently from me. I’m almost certain this is going to become a big problem for us at some point.
    “If I agree, do you promise to tell Father about your ability to walk at some point?”
    “I do. Now promise me that you’ll take Jalen. I know he seems kind of flighty. But I sense a power inside him that’s unique. Something that isn’t like yours or mine or your lover boy’s abilities.”
    “I promise,” I say. He kisses the top of my head, while I cross my fingers behind my back.
     
    * * *
     
    “All right, Spoiled Fry, we haven’t laid eyes on each other in months. Now, you bring your little body back here and expect me to believe you have this connection with Faris.” Desi folds her arms and narrows her eyes as I walk through Chelby Rose’s doorway for the first time in months.
    “That’s exactly right,” I say, glancing around the foyer of the house that was such a large part of my life a few months ago. Jalen waits for me out in his car. He doesn’t like the idea of asking another angel-blood to tag along with us. And I don’t want his charming self to ruin my chance at getting Desi on our side.
    “Doesn’t matter about your little connection. Faris is a traitor. He let that jackass of a Tainted, Seth Alton, get away. It doesn’t get any more turncoat than that.”
    “You’re just bitter because Seth jilted you in some way. I can understand that. But Faris let him go for a reason,” I say. The look I get in return for my bold statement could melt an iron tank.
    “You’re about as dense as my brother. Tobie went after Faris shortly after we all returned from Oceania. Now he’s missing, too,” she says, the defiant look in her eyes replaced by a worried one. For all her hardcore slayer attitude, she loves her brother. At some point, I’m pretty sure she thought she loved Seth too.
    I follow her into the living room that used to be a ballroom long ago. “If you manage to get past the guards on steroids, which I highly doubt you’ll be able to do, then what are your plans? You have no idea where to start looking. I’ve searched for my brother’s compass signal for months now. And I got nothing. He’s gone.” Tears form in her eyes. She swipes at her face and makes a small scoff as though she’s disgusted.
    “I believe they’re being held somewhere in the Ice Prison.”
    “Really? What sense does that make? They’re exiles, Chela, not criminals. What possible reason would the warden have for keeping Faris and Tobie as prisoners?”
    “To bleed them dry. Sell their blood. It happened to someone I know, a person I cared about. I won’t let it happen to Faris.” The throb in my chest threatens to wind me, but I focus on Desi. I don’t tell her about the dream I had of Faris crying out to me. The one where he’s attached to some kind of machine as he sits inside a cell. “Are you up for this, or not? We leave this evening before my family returns.”
    “You got it bad, don’t you?” she says, a sarcastic smirk on her lips. “It’s suicide. Super seraph girl or not, you can’t take on the Tainted all by yourself.”
    “I