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    Oathbound: The Shimmer Trilogy, #3
    Oathbound: The Shimmer Trilogy, #3
    Oathbound: The Shimmer Trilogy, #3
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    Oathbound: The Shimmer Trilogy, #3

    By Kimberly Spencer

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    Now that Jensen's dirty little secret is out, the King of the Seelie Court has ordered her capture. So if she wants to remain the master of her destiny, she must place her trust in an unexpected ally and do the one thing no one else has done before—locate Merlin's bones. Because in the game of Light versus Dark, whoever controls his bones, controls the fate of the Summer Kingdom.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKimberly Spencer
    Release dateDec 2, 2011
    ISBN9781466086524
    Oathbound: The Shimmer Trilogy, #3
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    Kimberly Spencer

    Kimberly Spencer is an avid reader, writer and non-arithmeticer. Seriously, don’t ask her to count anything. If she’s not working on the next book in The Faerie Tale Girl Series, she’s probably fighting with her three-year-old shih tzu Macho. Her favorite authors are Rachel Vincent, Cassandra Clare, and Gena Showalter.

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      Oathbound - Kimberly Spencer

      Oathbound

      The Shimmer Trilogy, #3

      by Kimberly Spencer

      Smashwords Edition

      http://www.ibreathefiction.blogspot.com/

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without written permission of the author.

      Cover Art by Kimberly Spencer

      Chapter One

      A hand. Five fingers, that was all. Yet, Luca recoiled from them, flattening himself against the stone slab as if those fingers clutched a blade. Or a sharp pendant of ice. Or whatever else was like kryptonite for dragons.

      An understandable reaction really. After all, Jensen had singlehandedly tossed the zonked out dragon-boy across the cavern with just the flick of her wrist. Well, that and about a room full of water if she was into the whole full disclosure thing. Which of course, she wasn’t.

      Now she was reaching out to him again. Only this time, she was doing it out of concern for his well-being rather than the desire to protect Liam.

      And in return, Luca was flat out rejecting her, fear swelling in his big lavender eyes as he fought for distance, even though some part of him had to know the cave wall behind him would not budge no matter how hard he pushed or how badly he wanted to escape.

      Undeterred by his distrust, she stretched her hand a little further, wiggling her fingers for the last few inches. But Liam wrapped his arm around her waist, yanking her back before she could actually reach him. Hard. Don’t touch him, he said, his voice so cold, chill bumps broke out everywhere he touched.

      What happened? Eiden asked.

      When did he get here?

      Liam stiffened in response, his hands falling away from her as he took a step back, wrenching his body away from hers.

      And then there was nothing. Complete and utter silence. Well, that wasn’t exactly true. While everyone in the cavern seemed to have lost the ability to string letters together to form even the simplest of words, the stone slab was locked in full-out banshee mode, screaming out from beneath the wounded dragon-boy as if it shared his pain. And maybe, just maybe it did.

      Jensen twisted around, finding Eiden staring right at her, his pale blue eyes narrowed beneath springy white-blonde curls streaked with soot. One of his sleeves hung by a few overworked threads and bronzy-gold blisters swelled within the exposed space. But other than that, he looked okay.

      Liam, the Beltane Coven is seeing to Shelby, he said, his eyes never straying from hers.

      Then there’s no reason for us to remain, Liam replied simply, though the stiffness of his body belied his composure.

      Eiden shook his head, his eyes now drifting over the scene in front of him. Searching. For what, Jensen wasn’t quite sure.

      Shouldn’t we make sure the threat has truly passed? he asked. It would be unwise for us to assume that this is the only faction.

      Yeah, and I was kind of hoping we could talk, Jensen added, laying her hand on Liam’s arm.

      Liam popped his jaw and the irritated sound echoed around the rocky room. That’s not the concern of the Sidhe Guard, he replied coldly, then lifted and dropped his shoulder, causing her hand to fall away.

      Jensen’s heart stuttered in her chest, her displaced hand racing to clutch the spot above the aching organ.

      Broadsided by Liam’s behavior, she almost missed the brief hiccup in the stone’s screaming when Luca jerked upright, froggy-jumping backward, before landing in a crouch on top of the stone.

      What are you? he asked, his tone both shocked and … reverent? Weird.

      And as Jensen stood there too numb and too hurt to move or ask him what he meant, Luca yanked Liam’s blade from his shoulder, opened his mouth once more, and sucked in a deep breath.

      A gasp escaped her lips, the only sound her traitorous throat would allow. And then she was tumbling to the ground as Liam blanketed her body with his own.

      Pain exploded throughout her arms and knees on impact.

      But no flames ever came their way. Nor did piercing claws rake across their bodies, rending their flesh into strips.

      Because Luca had leapt right over them, his copper-red wings swatting Eiden into the far wall and sending the lightning blade he’d been holding, skittering across the cave floor.

      Then before any of them could get their bearings enough to get up and stop him, the dragon-king was gone.

      Shit. Eiden snatched up his dagger from the ground, then flew out the chamber behind him. A pointless endeavor really, since Luca knew a hell of a lot more about the ins and outs of the cave system than the rest of them could ever hope to learn.

      Get up, Liam said, yanking Jensen from the ground.

      After rushing up a narrow flight of man-made stairs and following a rounded path into another corridor, they eased through a jagged opening in the cave wall, stumbling right into what looked like a weird sorority initiation. One that required having a chamber full of dead dragons on hand.

      Women of all ages filled the room. Some huddled together in corners, while others strolled around the chamber, their obvious distrust of the non-wiccans and the supposedly dead dragons written in the stiffness of their bodies and their constant scanning of each exit. Jensen imagined they were probably already prepping defensive spells, the words waiting on the tips of their tongues. Just in case someone was crazy enough to test their patience.

      At least a dozen witches surrounded a crying Shelby, lifting her up within the basket of their linked arms. Her right pants leg, or rather, what was left

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