Page 40 of Shadow Master
“You think Laramir will give us a reward for catching the fomori-tainted?” squat pondered.
They peered into the cage, their gazes snagging on me.
“I think we already got one,” wiry said. “You thinking what I’m thinking?”
The squat guy’s eyes lit up.
“Been a while since I fucked,” wiry said.
His companion shoved him hard. “I get to go first.”
The wiry one groaned. “You always break ‘em.”
The ice at my nape had taken over my body now.
Harmon and Athos went nuts in the cage opposite. They knew what the fomorians intended to do. They understood their words, or in Harmon’s case, their intent.
“What is it?” Hyde asked.
I shook my head sharply.
“Justice, what did they say?” Hyde whisper-hissed.
The lock on the cage jangled. I had nothing to defend myself with except my fists. I was strong, I was fast, but I wouldn’t last long against these two without a weapon.
I locked gazes with Hyde. “Don’t look. Promise me you won’t look.”
“Indigo?”
The cage door flew open, and the squat fomorian reached for me.
Hyde’s eyes flared in comprehension. “No!” He lunged, and in one fluid motion, yanked the arrow from his shoulder and stabbed the fomorian in the eye.
The fomorian let out a high-pitched scream and staggered back.
“You die.” His companion made a grab at Hyde.
Hyde was barely conscious after tearing the arrowhead from his body.
I shuffled forward. “Leave him alone! Just take me.”
I tried to crawl over Hyde, to make my way out, to let them have me. But Hyde shoved me back.
“I love you, Indigo,” he said.
And then he was being hauled out of the cage and dragged across the ground.
“Fucking bastards!” Harmon bellowed. “Let me out. Try taking me down, you bastard.”
The fomorians ignored him, their attention on Hyde.
He lay on the ground, chest heaving, his feytech skin soaked in blood.
The guy with the bloody eye crouched by Hyde’s body.
“Don’t. Please, don’t!” I pushed my arms through the bars, begging, pleading with them.
The wiry one looked up and bared his teeth before plunging his dagger into Hyde’s shoulder in the same spot as the arrow wound.
