by G. Bailey
“Your uncle kept one of the collars just in case we needed it one day…and Elias keeps attacking everyone, so we used it on him to control him for now,” Thorne explains, but I can’t reply as Elias finally lifts his head to look at me. His black eyes are empty of anything but darkness, and I feel nothing but pain as I watch him. The collar was a smart idea, even if I hate the idea of him wearing one.
“Eli?” I question, and he growls in response, standing up slowly. Elias’s clothes just hang off him now, and his skin is so deadly pale that it reminds me he really did die. I am so out of my comfort zone here with how I am meant to save him. I need Bee…or a lot of research on light and dark magic.
“Who are you?” Elias asks, his tone horrible and sinister.
“Isola…you know me, Eli,” I whisper to him, stepping that little bit closer to the cage, but I know I can’t get too close with how Elias is looking at me. He wants me dead. He doesn’t know me, let alone love me.
“Princess Isola. An enemy of my queen,” he muses with a growing smirk. “Queen Tatarina will be happy when I kill you.”
“No. Isola, the woman you are in love with,” Dagan snaps from just behind me. “Like I have told you many times, Tatarina is not your queen. She is a monster.”
“I don’t love anyone, and I serve the true queen,” Elias spits out and suddenly runs to the cage door, holding the bars so tightly his knuckles are white. “I will escape and kill you. I will wrap my hands around your neck and break it, pretty princess!” The words are said so cruelly and so loudly that it makes me flinch. Dagan comes to my side, placing his hand on my lower back. I know he expects me to break down…but I won’t. I made my choice to save Elias, and I will.
I step closer to the cage, and keep my eyes locked on his as I speak.
“I will save you, Elias Fire, because nothing is impossible.”
Epilogue
Melody
Isola stands in the middle of the throne room, covered in blood, with a dagger in her hand as she watches Elias hold a sword to Tatarina’s neck. Bee and Nane float near her, both of them fighting with light and dark blasts of magic that are hard to look at.
“Don’t kill her! You can’t,” Isola sobs out, stepping closer with every word, and Elias looks over at her with so much love in his eyes.
“I’d do anything to save you. Anything. Including this,” he says, lifting his sword to make the final blow as Isola runs towards them both, screaming in horror. Tatarina shoots a bolt of ice right into Isola’s chest before ducking out of the way of Elias’s sword and running away. Elias roars as I watch my sister die, and the vision turns into blackness.
I gasp as the vision leaves me, and I sit up off the floor where I collapsed in the empty room, rubbing my face. Isola is going to die. No! I stand up and quickly go to the wardrobe in our room, pulling out my orb and grabbing some daggers which I place into the small rucksack. I can grab some more things downstairs before going.
“Melody? Are you okay?” Hallie asks right behind me as she walks through the open doorway, and I tense, knowing she won’t like what I have to tell her. I could stay here and be a coward, letting my only family die, or take a massive risk and go to Dragca to save Isola.
“I’m going back to Dragca. I had a vision,” I explain to her.
“No…you told me if you went to Dragca again, you would die,” she gasps, her panicked voice is hard to hear.
“I know that,” I reply.
“I love you, you can’t do this,” Hallie cries out, walking to me to place her hand on my shoulder. I rest my head on her hand, taking the little comfort she can give me.
“Isola will die if I don’t warn her, Hallie. I love you too, but I won’t stay here while she dies when I could warn her,” I say, turning to face the devastated face of my girlfriend. To my surprise, she wipes her tears away and walks to me, picking up the dagger from my collection in my bag, before pulling the zipper up.
“Then let’s go. We will tell Queen Winter, and she will help. Both you and Isola think you have to do everything alone, and that isn’t happening anymore,” she says, being the strong human I know she is.
“Hallie, this is a world of dragons,” I warn her so she knows what she is waking into. “Not all dragons are like Isola, and they don’t respect humans. This is a war we will be walking into, and one I don’t think I will walk out of alive.”
“And like it or not, I’m a hunter. Let’s go, because we do this together,” she replies, being the strong woman I fell in love with. Dragca will fall with Isola…so I must save her, even if it means she loses me.
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Also by G. Bailey
Her Guardians Series (Complete)-
Winter’s Guardian (Book one)
Winter’s Kiss (Book two)
Winter’s Promise (Book three)
Winter’s War (Book Four)
Box set with bonus epilogue scenes (Book One)
Her Fate Series-
(Her Guardians Series spinoff)
Adelaide’s Fate (Book One)
Adelaide’s Trust (Coming Soon)
Saved by Pirates Series (Complete)-
Escape the sea (Book One)
Love the sea (Book Two)
Save the Sea (Book Three)
One Night Series-
Strip for Me (Book one)
The Marked Series (Co-written with Cece Rose)-
Marked by Power (Book one)
Marked by Pain (Book two)
Marked by Destruction (Book Three)
The Forest Pack series-
Run Little Wolf- (Book One)
Run Little Bear- (Book Two)
Run Little Prince (Coming Soon)
Run Little Beauty (Coming Soon)
Protected by Dragons series-
Wings of Ice (Book One)
Wings of Fire (Book Two)
Wings of Spirit (Book Three)
Wings of Fate (Book Four)
Wings of Dragca (Book Five)
A Demon’s Fall Series-
Runes of Truth (Book One)
Runes of Mortality (Book Two)
Runes of Black Magic (Book Three)
Runes of Royalty (Coming Soon)
From the Stars-
True Light (Book One)
Dark Soul (Book Two)
Shadow Kiss (Coming Soon)
The King Brothers Series-
Secret (Book One)
Chance (Book Two)
Past (Book Three)
Fall (Book Four)
Revenge (Coming September)
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