Before I could toss my forearms over my face to protect myself, he’d whipped his cloak up and over me, raising one arm with it so he effectively put me behind him. Twisting with that arm out to move me entirely behind his shoulder blades so his larger frame shielded me.
He caught Lionel by the front and back paw. Tossing him further out into the field with a vicious thump.
I screeched and leapt on Gray’s back. “Jacks! Don’t hurt him.”
Gray straightened. “I’m done.”
He gave me a hard look over my shoulder. “You call me by name, to save your Dog?”
“Lionel!” I cried. Seeing the long grass dancing in desolate field where I could just see the crumbling ramparts of an abandoned castle. I barely noticed it as I rushed forward, jerking brutally when I hit the end of the chain.
Again.
