Finding His Mage by Cassandra Joy

Author:Cassandra Joy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Joy

CHAPTER FOUR

Anders helped Kiaan carry the unicorn horn and dragon scale into the bar. The mage had refused to let him carry the… tricky plant.

It amused Anders how protective and cautious Kiaan was with it. Like it was the most precious baby ever.

Granted, it would be reasonable to say that Anders treated some of his more… tricky IPAs with just as much care.

When Kiaan started setting up all of his stuff on one of the tables, Anders stepped behind his bar for the familiarity of his domain. For the mental barrier of his spot.

He didn’t want the buffer from Kiaan. No. Just from his ravenous thoughts about Kiaan.

He’d known the man for less than an hour, and already Anders was becoming obsessed with what Kiaan would say next. Whether or not Anders could coax another smile out of him. What the mage would sound like with his lips wrapped around Anders’…

“Okay, I’m ready for your help, big guy!” Kiaan turned with a flirty smirk, and Anders swore to put that look on Kiaan’s face every day for the rest of his life.

Anders stood next to Kiaan, who handed him a bowl full of some gooey liquid.

“Carefully, walk around to all the outside entrances, doors and windows, of the entire packhouse and bar. Draw a line across the threshold or sill of each one, using that.”

“Finger?”

“Yep! No, it won’t feel nice. But you can wash your hands when you’re done.”

“Every door and window?”

“On all five floors, yes.” Kiaan smiled again, the beautiful smile he’d first flashed Anders. “It’ll take me a minute to detangle their energies now anyway. Now that I’m looking for it, I can definitely tell that there are two of them.”

Anders nodded and walked toward the pack entrance on this lower street level. Might as well do this room by room and floor by floor. But with so many of the pack living in apartments on the upper floors, there were a lot of windows in the upper floors of the building.

Anders moved methodically from portal to portal, drawing his goopy lines.

This was some sort of physical manifestation of the spiritual boundary between dimensions. Or some such shit. Kiaan had muttered something like that when mixing the stuff.

Sometimes when mages tried to explain things, it sounded like they were trying to use every ten dollar word they owned. But Kiaan hadn’t been like that. Not trying to impress Anders with his edumacation. Just explaining in simple terms to Anders. He’d kept all the big words for his mutterings.

As Anders passed Mason’s office to seal off the employee entrances, he heard a loud thud. That did not sound good.

He knocked then pushed the door open, hoping that Mason was okay.

But it wasn’t Mason he found. It was some… daemon. He guessed. But a big ugly beast thing that was throwing Mason’s furniture around like the antique desk didn’t weigh a thing.

“Kiaan!” Anders called, while taking his chances and rubbing a line of the goop across the office door.

Kiaan appeared next to him almost instantly and surveyed the daemon and its damage.

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