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Dragon Mated (Supernatural Prison #3)(16)
Author: Jaymin Eve

“Well, your sister is back in Stratford with your mom. Jonathon thought it was the safest place to stash the pair for now. The sanctuary is compromised because of all the marked there. The king hasn’t called them yet, but if he does, there is a veritable army right there ready to detonate on the supernatural world.”

I was relieved to hear that Mischa was back home, and clearly okay, or Jacob would have mentioned something more. She had been badly injured in Krakov, and it was really screwed up for me to have been taken before I knew if she had survived. Jacob’s news relieved tension I hadn’t even know I’d been holding onto.

Mischa and I had issues. Big ones. She’d acted like a complete fucking moron, trusting the fruit twins. She should have known better. She grew up with humans, for shit’s sakes, and humans were fraught with deception and disloyalty.

I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit that her stupidity did worry me. I hoped that wasn’t a permanent part of her personality. I was prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt this one time – this one time only. Mischa better have pulled her head out of her ass by the time I got back to Stratford, or we were going to have a much bigger issue than a lack of trust.

What we really needed was time to bond. We should have always had a bond – which would have ensured she had less human weirdness in her – but our life together had been stolen from us the day of our birth. Hopefully when this shit with Larky was all over, we’d finally have our chance.

The labyrinth stretched out in front of us, so far nothing crazy was jumping out, but I doubted this peace would last much longer.

Jacob continued, “The four of us have been working on our bond and our abilities to fight the king. And yes, we do know that for now we can’t kill him. He’s surrounded in these layers of protection, millions of ties which are like a cushion against any blows we deliver.”

I had information to add to that now but I didn’t want to interrupt him. I needed to hear about my pack.

“I don’t know for sure, but I think the others couldn’t enter the labyrinth because it’s a direct link to the Isle of the Gods. You can use this path to access any one of the four quadrants. You need strong fey blood to be allowed in here.”

I felt my face crinkle as confusion swamped me. “Well, how the hell am I in here? Don’t tell me I’m a dual shifter and somehow fey also.”

Jacob laughed then. “Yep, you’d be even more of a super special supernatural then, wouldn’t you?”

I snorted. That was a mouthful. Super special supernatural. Had a nice ring to it though, except I did not want any more specialness, especially if it meant the dragon king could use me for whatever diabolical scheme he had planned. And we all knew he had something crazy-assed planned for me.

“Am I allowed in the labyrinth because of the mark?” I wondered out loud. “I’m pretty sure Larky made some sort of deal with the shining ones before he died, and the marked was one of the things he received in return.”

Jacob tugged me closer to him and I wondered fleetingly if he had sensed something out there. My wolf and dragon didn’t seem alarmed, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t something alarming around.

“I doubt they would have made a deal with him, but if that’s the case he’ll owe the gods a massive favor. The fey started to flee these lands because a great evil sleeps here. The shining ones battled them, but something happened and the great ones lost a lot of their power. The fey were afraid that if the evil ever awoke, there would be no one that could contain them.”

That was the most Jacob had spoken on Faerie in all the years I’d known him – which was okay with me, everyone is allowed their secrets, and I knew he never kept anything important from us. Our pack was very open with each other.

“So you all abandoned ship just in case it ever got into rocky waters?” I asked, my brows raising.

Jacob nodded. “Pretty much.”

Well, that explained a lot. I jumped subjects: “Are Cardia and Grace okay?”

“Yes,” Jacob said, “they’re back in Stratford too.”

Maximus’ mate, Cardia, I didn’t know very well, and I wasn’t sure I was going to like her that much. But I would give her the benefit of the doubt, for my vampire. He held such a huge part of my heart and that meant his true mate would be a large part of our lives.

I didn’t know if I’d ever be fully okay with sharing him with his mate, but so far he was making it work. Of course a lot of that was due to the fact that he still continued to put his pack first, and I had no idea how long it would take before Cardia decided it was time for her to be his numero uno.

“Louis was right about Grace too,” Jacob said, as we continued to stroll. The breeze was just starting to pick up; there was an iciness to the air now. “She saved Mischa’s life. The moment the immortality lifted with the king’s arrival, Mischa was in grave danger. I don’t think there would have been time to get her back to a healer.”

Another thing I needed to thank the sorcerer for. Louis was powerful and enigmatic and I loved him like a brother. He hadn’t been around as long as my Compass quads, and did not come close to their place in my heart, but he was still hugely important to me.

Our conversation was cut off then by a loud rustling of the hedges. We fell into defense mode, Jacob shifting so he was to the front of me in case anything flew out suddenly. I hated it when they did that; I didn’t need a supernatural shield.

   
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