Earthbound (Dragons and Druids Book 2)
Page 19
Oh God.
I pulled my Ruger from my back waistband and started firing. But poof, he was gone. The pile of ash on the ground had bile rising in my throat. How easily he’d ruined my only weapon, the only chance I had at beating him. If I called up my purple magic now, it would overwhelm me and I’d collapse, maybe into a vegetative state like Isaac said. This night couldn’t get any worse.
But it did.
I heard his footsteps and was mid-turn when his body crushed into mine. The evil druid pulled me into him, smashing me against his chest and pelvis so that I was facing him. Too close for comfort.
“I can’t believe I almost had you killed … before I knew who your mother was,” Ardan whispered in my ear, making nausea roll within me.
“Eat shit,” I told him. For some reason, when I felt vulnerable and beaten, cursing at my assailant made things a little rosier.
He grinned. “You’re coming home with me.”
Screw it. I was calling the purple magic; it was my only defense. But before I could, a loud popping noise assaulted my ears. A flash of light rushed my vision and suddenly California was gone. Nausea pulled at me as I spun. It felt similar to using the Eye, except this was real. I was freaking teleporting. Oh God. My feet slammed down onto hard metal and then the pressure of Ardan’s body was gone. I opened my eyes, praying it wasn’t what I thought it was…
It was worse.
“Oh fuck,” I said to no one.
‘Sloane? What’s wrong?’ Logan’s frantic reply came through our mate bond, and I was relieved to find that it still worked.
I tried to control my emotions. Tried not to cry or faint. ‘He’s taken me. Ardan.’
A visceral reaction shot through the bond as Logan processed my words, I felt the moment my mate was overcome with rage. ‘Where?’
I walked slowly to the edge of the steel cage I’d been dropped inside, peering out the window and down below to the water crashing along the rocky cliffs. Rolling green hills surrounded the stone castle.
‘I think I’m in Ireland.’ Shock didn’t even begin to cover how I was feeling.
Fury roiled through my mate and into me. ‘I’m coming,’ he said. And I knew he would, just like Ardan wanted him to.
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Acknowledgments: LELA EDER! I’m talking to you woman! I totally forgot to thank my wonderful, amazing, intelligent, caring, almost name twin, PA in the last book. She not only helped me organize the release to raise money for the Orphanage in India but she found a HUGE error in beta reading this book. Lela, I love you and this is your ‘forgive me’ acknowledgment. Thank you for being amazing. A special thank you to my other beta reader Steven Smithen who let me name my bad guy after him. To my editor Lee, with Oceans Edge Editing, thank you for making my books mostly error free, any errors you find are all me. To my proof reader Stephany Wallace, thank you for finding those last little stragglers. Wouldn’t be a polished piece without you! Jaymin Eve you keep me sane in this business, I love ya, Penncon 2018! And to all my readers, ARC team and anyone I forgot. I couldn’t do this without you! <3