Lily, my mom, wasdead.
“I’mcoming to get you, Dylan. Don’t worry.” I hung up as a text came through with his GPS pin and milemarker.
“You want to stay back? Do the splitting up thing again?” I asked my mate. I wasn’t sure what Logan and Keegan had worked out in the event there was another druidattack.
Logan looked like I’d slapped him. “No way. Look how well that turned outbefore.”
True. But together we could be killed. Apart we couldn’t—or so Isaac hadsaid.
“I wish he’d let me come and bring him in.” Logan toldme.
I shook my head. “These people have been running from druids their whole lives. Only one person has ever tried to help conceal them and that was my mom. She gave all of them my picture, setting me up for this role. I wouldn’t trust anyone elseeither.”
Logan groaned, “But I’m a freakingskyborn!”
“They don’t know that. Come on, let’s go,” I told him, and started jogging. One thing I was sure of was that Logan and I were better together than we wereapart.
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Chapter 4
We packedone of the buses full of shifters in under five minutes. Keegan’s pack was inbound to the pindrop location while Logan, Danny, Eva and I were in my car following. We’d asked Isaac to stay behind with the rest of the pack to protect Lynn’s family and Casey. If bringing over twenty shifters to rough up one rogue druid was too much, we didn’t care. No more mistakes. We’d go overkill every time if we had to. I’d told Dylan and Maggie to circle the route, leading the druid away from Isaac’s land and drop a new pin if shit went south. Shit must have gone south, because I got a new text with a new location and all it said was –We’re out ofgas–
Crap! Something so simple as running out of gas could be the end of this man’slife.
“We’ve got a new location. They’re out of gas!” I shrieked to Logan, who was behind the wheel, as I forwarded the text to Keegan, and also tried to map how far we were fromit.
“Get off!” I screamed, when I realized almost too late that the exit we were passing was the one they were offof.
Logan slammed on the brakes and cut the car to the right, careening us into the exit lane. The bus holding Keegan and the pack was ahead of us and would have to take the next exit and circle around. My fingers longed to be wrapped about my staff. My mother’s necklace was nice, but I just wasn’t used to it yet. The staff had been grounding, and made me feel safe just wrapping my fingers around it. The necklace just sort of lay there at the base of my throat, a constant reminder of my mother. But now that I knew it was feeding energy to the other skyborn necklaces mom made and helping conceal them, I couldn’t take itoff.
“Go left! There’s a road past the truck stop that they’ve stalled at.” I pointed for Logan to turn the car in the direction of the pin on myphone.
Please be okay. Please be okay, I chanted in myhead.
We’d pulled off into some small town with nothing but trees and one truck stop. It was midday but the truck stop was bare of people. I was guessing it wasn’t a popular place to gas up. Flying past the stop, I indicated for Logan to make a left on Capella Road, which would lead us to Dylan. Reaching down, I pulled off my shoes and socks, ready to ground my feet to the Earth and blast this druid out of the sky with my purple fire. Dylan had previously asked us if his girlfriend Maggie could come to the land too, but had said she wasn’t a powerful witch, only a quarter pure. I wasn’t sure what kind of magic that gave her, but I was hoping it was enough to keep them both alive. As we turned down the street and took in the scene before us, Igasped.
Dylan was in his full dragon form. A stunning emerald green dragon. Maggie was throwing some type of smoke spell to cover up where they were, but surrounding them were over a dozen druids. Not hunters.Full-ondruids. Tattooed andall.
Eva growled. “This iswar.”
Those words chilled me to my bones.War.This wasn’t one druid going after one dragon in the hopes of getting a little power kick off his magic. This was the slaughter of a species. That was their intention. Why else would they come like this, in such greatnumbers?
Logan slammed the brakes and the car screeched to a halt, drawing the looks of several of the druids, and I recognized the redheaded female from the bar fight that nearly killed Dom. The moment she saw us, she threw a glowing red dagger right at Dylan’s greendragon.
Eva and I erupted out of the car at the same time. Flowing out from the sorcerer’s hands was a yellow geometric magical sphere. I had to push my dragon down because she wanted to shift and fight by Dylan’s side, but right now I needed to allow my druid magic come to the surface. This bitch would burn. She would burnalive.
The druids fanned out, the redhead meeting my eyes, grinning ear toear.
She pointed to me. “She’smine.”
Suddenly water bubbled up underneath me; my feet sank into the mud as suction pulled me down, locking my ankles inplace.
Waterdruid.
Isaac had prepared me for this. Told me about the different tricks they could use. Logan was a few steps ahead of me, running full blast at Dylan and Maggie, while popping off gunshots wherever he could. It didn’t look like the redhead’s knife had hit Dylan, and for that I was grateful. The druids had all created a red shield around themselves, but it seemed Danny and Eva had no problem popping them likebubbles.
I didn’t panic. I didn’t struggle. I took a deep breath, finding my inner Zen, and allowed the Earth to pulse her grounding magic through my feet, while I felt my connection to Isaac suddenly flare with strength. He was tuning into me through our master-apprentice bond, or whatever it was, and I knew what I needed todo.
