Alarik (A Rogue Enforcers Novella) by Douglas Tracie

Author:Douglas, Tracie [Douglas, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The moment Reaghan opened the door of Alarik’s truck and her foot hit the ground, she knew she was home. It had nothing to do with her gift either, but rather her instinct.

Despite the crumbling shell of a burnt building that was once what she was sure had been her home, two oak trees stood tall and untouched on the front lawn. She looked at them with unshed tears as a rush of memories, locked in the back of her mind for years, bubble to the surface. They hit her hard and she falls to her knees with a loud cry, as visions of a man and woman skittered across her mind.

Her mother and father.

She could hear their laughter.

She could hear their voices.

She could even smell them.

Her father was a loving man who told her stories and filled her life with adventure. He always had a book in his hand and a smile on his lips. She remembered the way his dark hair curled around his ears. Her mother always complained he needed a haircut, but she secretly loved the length.

Her mother had the most beautiful singing voice. Late at night when Reaghan would wake from a nightmare, it was her mother would sit at the side of her bed and sing until she fell asleep. Her father adored the woman and spent every moment he could dancing under the oak trees with her.

Reaghan could see them clear as day, like they walked the land still, waiting for her to return.

And then she remembered that night. The one when she ran, leaving her parents and everything she knew and held dear behind.

Her mother begged her to go—but why? Closing her eyes, she dug her bare hands into the soil, trying to remember what happened.

Are you sure you want to remember? her dragon asks. Not a moment of hesitation went by before Reaghan nodded. She needed to know.

As her dragon releases the memory, Reaghan releases a blood curdling cry of anguish.

Her father dead at the front door, and then a group of men. She’d been hiding in the coat closet, but she’d seen it all. They entered the house, scattering instantly in search of…her mother.

“You know our instructions. Take her alive,” one of the men said. Reaghan didn’t know who the man was, and his face was covered, but deep down in her soul, she knew they were going to do to her mother what they did to her father, and she couldn’t let that happen.

Present Reaghan vaguely felt Alarik’s arms envelope her, allowing her to keep her connection to the land while offering comfort as she worked through the memory.

Past Reaghan quietly and carefully made her way through the house until she found her mother in the basement, waiting at their secret exit. The fear in her mother’s eyes, the heartbreak in her voice, Reaghan couldn’t shake off or pretend didn’t exist.

But she ran like her mother instructed, and her dragon guided her through the night and the wild.

When she heard a scream at her back, she knew it was her mother.

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