I nodded, but then found myself fretting over the state of mywand.
“Think it will work? My staff?” I asked my mate, rolling over to meet hisgaze.
He shrugged. “I hopeso.”
“What do you think was up with that dream I had in the car? You think it was real?” I askedhim.
He nodded without hesitation. “Yes, unfortunately I do. The druids have long since held a plan to restore the essence of Faery by cleansing the Earth of humans so that only the pureblooded supernaturalsremain.”
Rage boiled up within me, so hot and overwhelming that I thought I would spit fire right then andthere.
“How dare he! How dare he even think it? I’m going to kill him,” I said through gritted teeth, sitting upfully.
Logan opened his arms and I slid off the bed and fell into them, sitting on his lap with my head in the crook of hisneck.
He stroked my hair and then down my neck to my arm, holding my hand. “My mother and father would have loved you,” hesaid.
I froze. He barely spoke of them. I always thought it was too painful. “My mother would have loved you,” I said. “And my father alreadydid.”
He smiled. “Yes, when Marcus wasn’t calling me an egotistical hothead, he did loveme.”
I grinned. “What were your parentslike?”
Logan looked at an empty corner of the room. “My mother was the most stubborn woman you ever met. She could command an entire room with her energy. Her dragon was all white, veryrare.”
Soundedbeautiful.
“My father was the gentle one, the wise one. He taught me to think before speaking and to give people the benefit of the doubt. His dragon was pitch black. They were opposites in a lot of ways. Maybe that’s why they worked sowell.”
I never got to see my mother in love or with any man. She’d always just told me she’d had her great love and wasn’t interested in anything substandard. I never questionedit.
I was about to comment when his cell phone started buzzing in his pocket. I hopped off his lap and he pulled itout.
“Eva,” he told me and pickedup.
“Hey, what’s up?” he asked the sorceress. I leaned in so that I couldhear.
“We have a bit of a situation. When will you guys beback?”
Logan sat erect, nearly smacking into my forehead. “What’s the situation? We were planning to stay the night here. Her staff won’t be ready until the morning but we can comeback…”
Eva didn’t say anything for a moment. “Well, don’t freak out, but some of Dee’s wolves were running the perimeter and came across a druid scouting thearea.”
“What?” Logan and I both screamed at the sametime.
Eva sighed heavily into the phone. “I know, but they were able to kill him before he could report back or anything. The Earth took his body and it’s all fine now. No need to comeback.”
Logan stood and I backed up as he paced the carpet. “Should you leave? Just go mobile for a while. Live out of thebusses?”
He’d put her on speakerphone so I could listen. “No, I don’t think that’s a good idea. Lynn is chained to that room with the baby. It would leave her alone and unprotected. And they know we travel by busnow.”
“Shit!” Loganswore.
“It’s going to be okay. I’m enhancing my spells around the property. I’ll go further out and set up alerts so that if anyone, human or otherwise, crosses the boundaries I am madeaware.”
Logan stopped pacing. “Okay,” hebreathed.
Eva was silent for a beat. “That was problem number one. Are you ready for problem numbertwo?”
