“Jenna, can you take Starla somewhere safe?”Aurora asked, hating the thought of being separated, but knowing it was best for her sister at the moment.
The Fey Queen inhaled deeply and nodded.“She has much to learn, as you did from the great trees.While your path was forged out of necessity, hers appears to be one of the heart.Here.”Jenna paused and placed her finger on Aurora’s forehead.
Starla floated into their link, a silent watcher.Aurora thought she’d been too young, but the tree gave her gifts.She’d honed them silently.
Through their touch, information and knowledge merged, forming a bridge between what Aurora thought she knew and the actual truth.Her sister allowed the female to see their past, including that fateful day all those years ago.The terror and pain of watching the massive tree kill their parents as it slammed onto the top of their SUV and crushed both of them was horrendous to relive.Starla bit her lip to keep from crying out.
“I’m so sorry, Vita Mea,” Savage whispered.
Starla felt his presence in the link as well.He’d been a silent observer to their heartache, but he’d also be there to hold Aurora when Starla left.It was a good thing her sister didn’t want to claw his eyes out.
“You’re going to go with—what do we call you?Are we supposed to curtsy or something?”
The two males who’d come with Jenna laughed.One of them muttered,“Please don’t.”
Starla took a deep breath and let it out.Wherever these three were going, she’d go.It would give her a chance to lick her wounds.Maybe her heart could heal, and then she could come back and face the loss of her other half.
Jenna flipped them both the bird, but she smiled.
“So, you’re the Fey Queen.Are you a Goddess?”
Starla bumped her side with her wolven head.
“I am me, Jenna.You do not need to curtsy to me unless you’d like to do that when I introduce you to my bestie, Lula.That would be amazing.I’d love to see her face as she watches someone do that to me.”Jenna cackled and rubbed her hands together.
“You do realize that Lula and Belle are both royalty on their home worlds, don’t you, my love?”
Jenna stuck out her tongue and then reached out to pet Starla.“Come, I don’t have time to stand around and blabber all day.Aurora, you have the ability to reach out to your sister at any time.Don’t forget that your wolf needs more freedom as well,” she said, shaking her finger at Aurora.
Aurora bent and pressed her face against Starla’s.She knew she should shift back to human, but she felt safer, heart-wise, in her shifted form.
“I love you, Biddy Bee.”
“It’s not letting go but watching her grow.She’ll thank you for allowing her to spread her wings and lick her wounds without an audience.”Savage held her sister.
“I want to gut your friend Scepter for hurting her,” she bit out.
“Where did he go?”
Starla felt some odd murmurs and knew he was speaking to her sister inside their minds.She shifted away, giving them space.
“We good?”Savage asked.
“Our father wants to speak with you.”
“You’re hybrids like Starla and me.What is your father?”
“He’s a pureblood like him.”
“And why does he want to have an audience with Savage?”
Starla heard their conversations from across the room as if they were next to her.She didn’t turn to look at them.Her ears perked up as she heard Scepter moving around in the other room.She knew he was listening, too.
“Shit.He needs to know whether Savage and his clan are a threat to our family.”Blood dripped from both males' noses.
“You’re very powerful, Aurora.”Jenna put her hand on both males' faces.The blood disappeared instantly.
“What did I do?”
