Everyone looked at me as she addressed the elephant in theroom.
“Purple what?” Keeganasked.
I shrugged. “I don’t know what happened. One second my body felt like it was vibrating with electricity and the next there was a mountain lion jumping at my face. I … threw purple magic at him, I guess, and hecollapsed.”
“Purple?” Keegan and Sophie both said at the same time. Dom just stared at me behind thickeyebrows.
I rolled my eyes. “Yes, purple. What’s the bigdeal?”
Logan exhaled loudly and crossed the distance between us. He pointed to Keegan. “Shifters have no magic, beyond that of shifting, extreme strength, and other traits of a shifter … but no magic. Dragons have green magic.” He pointed to himself. “Eva, and the other sorcerers powerful enough to produce magic, have yellow magic. And lastly, druids have redmagic.”
“Oh.” Shit. What was wrong with me? I had some freaky purple magic. No wonder they were all staring atme.
“So … what does purple magic mean?” I asked, trying not to sound afraid. Tried andfailed.
“Different colored magic can mean…” He lowered his voice to barely above a whisper. “That you’re ahybrid.”
I had conveniently blocked out what Eva had said in her office. About my mother not being a dragon, that maybe she was some other type of magical creature. But it all hit me now. Confirmation. My legs went weak and I involuntarily fell backward. Logan rushed forward and caught me just as I passedout.
8
IAWOKEIN the bed of my unicorn room and heard muffled voices just outside of my door. I rolled over and could see that it was popped open a fewinches.
“No, no, human DNA is too weak to carry a dragon child. They always miscarry,” Loganwhispered.
“Well, then, what is she? Hybrids are rare, right?” Keegan whisperedback.
“Very,” Logan spoke. “So much so that I’ve only ever heard of a handful. I know that shifters and skyborn species cannot bear young, so she can’t be part shifter. She might be part sorcererthough.”
Keegan gave a low whistle. “This is crazy. Girl lives her whole life spelled to think she’s human, and now this. If people found out there was another dragon. A hybrid dragon atthat…”
Logan’s voice turned sharp, deadly. “No one will findher.”
Keegan suddenly moved in front of the doorway. I could see his back through the crack. “Her heart rate has elevated. She’sawake.”
Logan sighed. “Alright. I’ll go talk to her. You need to hire two new shifters. You’re right, six isn’tenough.”
Keegan must have been grinning; I could hear it in his voice. “You don’t tell me I’m right often enough, my friend. I like the sound of it. I’ll get right on it. Not sure there are two more shifters in the world I trust, but I know a friend who has a pack of old-school shifters that were raised to protect like Sophie and I were. I trust him, and they will take the oath of protection same as Idid.”
It sounded like this oath of protection was something you couldn’t go back on without seriousconsequences.
“Thank you,” Logan told him, and Keegan moved to leave. “One more thing … I think we need a pack sorcerer, and Danny is powerful and I trust him … Eva’s too busy with the bar.” I could feel the tension in the air from my place on the bed ten feetaway.
“You want me to hire my ex-boyfriend? The one I broke up with to keep your secret?” Keegan’s voice could cut glass and it gave me chills. There was so much hurtthere.
Logan’s voice was soft but laced with anger. “I told you to tell him who I was. I never wanted you guys to breakup.”
Keegan growled but it wasn’t threatening, more just to blow off steam. “We have rules. No one outside of this pack can know who youare.”
“Unless it’s your mate or someone who takes the oath,” Loganadded.
“Danny is neither. I’ll see you later,” Keegan said, and stalked off down the hall, his feet stomping out the anger I knew he wasfeeling.
For such a hardass and closed-off guy, I was surprised by how much emotion he showed over his ex. He must have really loved him, and still did by the sound of it, but took his own rules too seriously to hang on to the guy. I was so caught up in the Keegan and Danny soap opera that I almost didn’t notice Logan enter the room. He popped the door open wide and crossed over to mybed.
“You heard everything, didn’t you?” Logan asked, and there was a little relief in his face. Like he didn’t want to keep things from me, and he also didn’t want to have to say itagain.
I nodded. “I’m probably half skyborn, half sorcerer, and Keegan is hiring more people to protect us.” I left out the ex-boyfriend drama to berespectful.
