Bear Bait (Hero Mine Book 1) by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2017-04-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve – Octavia

Reeling from the shock of what was happening, Octavia followed Cade and Eva out of the kitchen.

“What’s going on?” Seth asked. He had just returned from his delivery, and one look at Eva’s face was enough to tell him something was wrong, very wrong.

“We’re going to see Lucas,” Cade told him, but gave no further details.

“Want backup?” Seth asked.

“No,” Cade snapped. “Sorry, Seth. Look something has come up. Can you get Tobias to help you with any other deliveries we have?”

“Sure. This have anything to do with that degetty?” Seth asked.

“Indirectly,” Cade answered, going to his truck. He hauled the door open and got in. Eva got into the passenger seat, and for a second Octavia thought the door was about to be slammed in her face, but instead, Cade’s mom stuck her head out and said, “Come on, there’s room for us all up front.”

Octavia dashed to the door and got in before everyone changed their mind and saw her as the enemy. She had, after all, been responsible for bringing this down on them. Cade started the engine, and drove off, gravel spraying up behind them. No one told him to slow down.

“I’m sorry,” Octavia blurted out at last.

“For what?” Eva asked.

“All of this.”

“Don’t apologize for something you could not have stopped. It was only a matter of time until they found a way in. That damn Dragon’s Tear, I wish I’d never seen the thing.”

“What is it, exactly?” It seemed to mean a lot to everyone, more than a simple stone ever should.

“It can bring people back from the dead.”

“It can do that?” Octavia asked, thinking of her own mother.

“We don’t know for sure,” Eva said. “It’s a myth.”

“I can’t let you hand over something with such potential value. Not for me,” Octavia said, having overheard most of the conversation between Matthew and Eva.

“You won’t have to let us hand it over,” Cade said, looking sidelong at his mom. “We don’t have it.”

“You don’t? Then who does? Because it sounds as if Matthew is certain you do.”

“We did have it. But now it’s gone. So we come up with a plan B,” Eva said.

“Do you have a plan B?” Octavia asked, shuddering at the thought of that degetty coming after her for real.

“I do,” Cade said. “But we are going to need Lucas on board for this.” He looked at Eva. “Do you think you can persuade him to help us?”

“That is a good question,” Eva said. “And one we are about to find out.”

Cade stopped the truck outside a set of wooden gates, and rolled down the window. He leaned out and pressed some buttons on a security panel—it must have been a code or a password, because the heavy gates with their ornate carvings swung open, and he drove the truck forward into the grounds of what appeared to be a private residence.

“This is the Council Chambers.”

“Council? What kind of Council?” Octavia asked.

“The one we work for. It’s made up of mainly druids.

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