Rainbow Snippets: Not Strong Enough

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Being a sequel, In Love and Death is set directly after In Pain and Blood. Some snippets will contain spoilers of those events.

Following on from the previous snippet where Dylan’s looking for a distraction from his issues…

He’d gone into the original leashing blind. He understood that, now. He’d been so sure of what effect the collar would have on him, that it couldn’t be any different to the isolation cells, just portable. And permanent.

Except it hadn’t been. Not that time.

He ran his fingers across the smooth patch of skin at his throat. Whatever fault had allowed his magic to slip through, had saved him from a swift death, would be rectified by whoever was capable of leashing him at Wintervale.

Could he really go through it again? I have to. He was too dangerous to wander about unleashed. Strong. That was what the hound had called him. Strong enough to free himself, to leave him alive and unconscious, hidden from sight and presumed dead.

Just not enough to save any skin but his own.

I’ll be back with more from In Love and Death next weekend. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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