Bishop to Knight One (Diviner’s Game #1)

Bishop to Knight One (Diviner’s Game #1)

Author: Jennifer Cody Listening Length: 12h 37m

Deejay: I have spent every day of the last ten years taking in and caring for my sisters’ sons. The problem is, we’re the sons of Naiads and I’ve never met a Nymph of any kind that cared about her male offspring. The boys don’t inherit the magic required to care for and connect to the waters of the earth, therefore...

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A thump wakes me up with a start. I turn over to find Matt gone and the baby monitor off. For a moment I dismiss the noise that woke me because obviously Matt got up to attend the babies, but then my brain reminds me that thumps loud enough to wake me mean something went wrong, so I jump out of bed, pulling on my underwear as I trip and hop to the door. I can see the gentle glow of the nursery’s night light backlighting Matt’s body slumped over in the hall. I run to him, sliding to my knees, and move him onto his back, checking his pulse and breathing all at once. Relief courses through me that he’s alive, just unconscious, then fear grips me. I don’t hear the twins.

I scramble into the nursery, barely getting to my feet before I see that my boys are sound asleep, and breathing, unharmed—just asleep.

I take a moment to recover my heart out of my throat before rushing back to Matt just in time to hear the sound of the front door slamming shut. I check Matt’s breathing once again, this time noticing that he’s wheezing in his throat.