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Dragon Mated (Supernatural Prison #3)(15)
Author: Jaymin Eve

I felt my face scrunch up. “Why?”

“For all the times Louis knew more than he said, and for the fact that he promised to act as your big brother and then he let you disappear without a trace. Brax is a loose cannon right now. It takes literally nothing to set him off. He killed one of the fruit twins the moment you were taken, and the second followed soon after.”

I tried to feel sympathy for those bitches, but … I just didn’t care. They signed their death warrant long ago. I realized there were so many more things I had to be asking him, but at the same time I knew it wasn’t smart to be standing still in this place.

We had to keep moving before the really scary shit came out to play.

Chapter 4

Jacob and I shifted apart as we turned to observe the path. I swiveled my head, taking in the complete circle of our surroundings. The chipmunks were gone, having scampered away at the first sign of a fireball-wielding fey. Still, even though nothing was around us, I sensed eyes out there. We were being watched.

“We should start walking,” I said. “We have to make it through the labyrinth and to the isle of the shining ones.”

Jacob just gave me a nod before holding out his hand, and together we started to stroll along the darkened path, the green grass swishing around my feet.

“Tell me everything else,” I said as we crossed the distance at a reasonable pace. “How did you finally find me in Faerie? Why are you the only one in here? Where’s everyone else? How are Dad, Lienda and Mischa?”

I had thought about my family a lot during my time in Larky’s castle. When I wasn’t tearing his shit to pieces, that was.

“I won’t lie to you, Jessa babe, it’s been really bad with you gone. I never expected it would be fun or anything, but shit fell apart in an epic, mammoth, gut-wrenching way.” He had to clear his throat a few times then, and I gave his hand an extra squeeze.

“We were fucking devastated,” he said, “not knowing if you were okay, if you needed our help. We were doing anything we could to find you, chasing down every goddamn lead which ever existed on Larky and his lairs. It’s been weeks, weeks of nothing, dead ends, and dead supes – especially after Brax was through with them. Then, yesterday, when we were back in Romania dealing with shit at the sanctuary, which mainly involved a lot of interrogation of marked and mystics, Louis and Brax felt you. After that, the sorcerer knew you were in Faerie and he opened a portal straight away.”

“I escaped,” I mused out loud, doing the math on when they had appeared. Right after I managed to break free of the castle illusion. “When I jumped from the castle, I must have broken some of the spelling which was hiding my essence.”

Jacob nodded. “Whatever it was, those two felt you just long enough for us to find the castle. We were intercepted by the king and his men before we could get to you. Did you know he has an entire army of elves?”

I blinked a few times. “Elves? I didn’t even know elves were still a thing.”

Jacob laughed. “I didn’t either. They were definitely some sort of elf or half breed. Their skin was very green. Probably for blending in the forest.”

That explained the green-skinned food bringer in the castle.

“In any case there are a lot less elves in the world now. Brax tore most of them to shreds. The rest of us got about eight seconds of fun. Your mate hogged all the killing for himself.”

I had to push down my agonizing need for Braxton. I was starting to get all jittery, like a crackhead overdue their next fix. I had to not think about him or I was going to go crazy.

“What about Larky? You fought him … you guys know he can’t be killed, right?”

A flicker of something flashed across those green eyes; the skin tightened along his brow. “We’d just finished off the elves and were facing down Larky when some sort of ripple went through his illusion world and he took off. He was heading in this direction right before he disappeared.”

He probably felt my energy leave. I had no doubt he was hunting me right now and could still reach us here. We had to move faster.

Jacob picked up the pace with me, continuing his story as we dashed along. “We gave chase but were intercepted by this weird human-fey creature. She told us where you had gone, and with her map we found this labyrinth no problem.”

Good old Rose. Well, it was nice to know she wasn’t a complete bitch-face. She might have sort of whammied me to get me in here, but she sent my boys after me, so it wasn’t all bad.

“We all tried to follow you, but I was the only one not repelled by the barrier. They decided to send me in so I could scout for you. Louis knows another way to the center of Faerie. They’ll meet us there.”

Hold up. “One: how do they know what’s at the end of this path? And two: why couldn’t they get in here?”

Jacob got that look on his face then, the one which appeared whenever he couldn’t talk about fey secrets. Well, screw that one sideways on a horse. Not today, buddy. The fey owed me, because I was in their land and in an ass-ton of shit. I wanted answers and I wanted them now.

I must have been growling without realizing, because Jacob started to laugh. He wrapped me in his arms. “Calm, Jessa babe, my loyalty is always to you. You know that. It’s just that there are some things which I am forbidden to talk of. I’ve sworn oaths and will be held to them.”

I sighed. “Okay, I understand that, but with most oaths there is a way around them. What can you tell me?”

   
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