Into the Light

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Book: Into the Light Read Free
Author: Tami Lund
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shimmer of magic surrounding her body brightened for a moment. Tanner’s eyes flared briefly as he felt the impact as if she’d touched him instead of simply glared at him.
    He shook his head and made an exasperated sound. “I told you I’m not going to kill you.”
    “Why not?”
    “I don’t think like the pack master. I didn’t even believe you all existed, let alone that you can share your magic.” And it would be a damn shame to kill someone so pretty .
    “Then set me free,” she challenged.
    “Shh,” he said as he cocked his head to listen to a sound only he could hear, thanks to his intensified shifter hearing. “Someone’s coming.”
    The lightbearer shrank into herself, curling her body into a tighter ball as she watched the basement stairs with growing trepidation. Quentin had obviously made quite an impression on her.
    Then he was there, the man himself. Tanner’s sire, not that he was particularly pleased or honored by that fact. Long, pitch-black hair, a well-groomed beard shot with silver, and muscles to rival any twenty-year old, Quentin Lyons was without a doubt a force with which to be reckoned. If not for the silver in his beard and the fact that his eyes were black, whereas Tanner’s were a pale blue, the two men could be twins.
    Tanner knew the only reason he’d been able to defy the pack master ten years ago was because he was Quentin’s only legitimate offspring, and his father was under the delusion that he would step up and take over the pack someday.
    Not likely.
    “Ah, the prodigal son returns,” Quentin drawled, his dark eyes sweeping over Tanner, as if searching for an indication that he’d decided to change his ways since the last time the two men met.
    Tanner fought, as always, to remain passive in front of the dominant shifter. Do not let him know he gets to you .
    “Mickey made it difficult to say no this time.”
    Quentin chuckled. “As I knew he would. I told him it was his life or you. I am pleased he chose you. How did he do it?” At least he didn’t pretend Tanner wanted to be there.
    “Produced a bit of fabric from the woman’s dress,” Tanner said as he thrust his thumb over his shoulder to indicate the lightbearer in the cage behind him.
    Quentin nodded thoughtfully. “The boy is smarter than I gave him credit for. Perhaps it is time for a shift in the ranks.”
    Tanner hoped not. A shift in the ranks was meant to be an honor, but to get there, Mickey would have to fight one of Quentin’s strongest guards in a dogfight that would probably kill one of them. Tanner’s money, unfortunately, would not be on Mickey to survive.
    Quentin’s eyes shifted to the lightbearer. “I did it,” he murmured, sounding reverent. “I was right.”
    “You were right that lightbearers still exist,” Tanner said carefully. Be that as it may, Tanner still could not accept the idea of killing this woman in cold blood, just on the off chance that Quentin might inherit her magic.
    “Can you see the magic, son?” Quentin’s eyes had begun to glow, a steady, dim light that was indicative of his level of excitement.
    “It’s her magic,” Tanner said. “If you kill her, you kill the magic as well.”
    “You don’t know that.”
    “You don’t know that you will inherit it, either.”
    “The legends were right about their existence,” Quentin pointed out. “Why would you think they wouldn’t be right about the magic?”
    Tanner shook his head. “It doesn’t make sense. No magical beings have ever had the ability to share magic. Ever, in the history of magic. Leave her be. Let her go.”
    Quentin’s eyes shifted to focus on Tanner. “You aren’t leading this pack yet,” he growled.
    Tanner bit back his own growl. Telling his old man that he had no intention of ever ruling his pack would send the man into a rage, as Tanner well knew from past experience. And if his father flew into a rage, the petite lightbearer was most certainly as good as dead.
    “You won’t

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