Claimed by Sammie Joyce

Author:Sammie Joyce [Joyce, Sammie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Southern Heat Publishing
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Rose was trembling slightly as she took the dragons’ food down that evening. Asher had been silent since their conversation just before he was taken to be tortured. Gavin had told her not to try to speak to him, that he was resting.

She had the silencing box in her pocket. She’d set it to span the entire main room of the basement. She wasn’t entirely sure she had all the measurements correct, but it was probably close enough to do its job. Of course, she couldn’t spend long in the basement now. The witches on guard duty would notice if it was silent for too long. They’d only have time to talk properly when she came later tonight.

As she entered, her eyes were immediately drawn to the couch. Asher was lying on his side, sleeping, though his eyes opened when she stepped into the room.

“Asher.” Rose left the trays at the door, hurrying over to him. “How are you?”

“Not too bad. I’ve certainly had worse. Kaylee decided to demonstrate the full power of the spell, but she had other places to be, so it didn’t last too long.”

“You knew,” Rose accused. “You knew she’d do that. You told me that you wouldn’t be badly hurt.”

“I wouldn’t have if it was just your friends doing it, but I did suspect that Kaylee would demonstrate. She often does.”

“I’m so sorry.”

“Hey.” Asher reached out and took her hand, wincing as he did. “It’s not your fault. Don’t ever take the blame that belongs to others. I know you would have stopped it if you could. There was nothing any of us could do.”

“I have to get you out of here. We need to escape.”

“No,” Asher said firmly. “I have to think of my whole clan. The four of us are here, but there are six others in the two other covens. If we escaped without them, they would be punished or even killed. No, we have to stay, at least for now.”

“Do you have a plan? A long-term one, I mean?”

Asher leaned back against the couch, his eyes closing for a minute. It was clear he was exhausted.

Jagger answered for him. “For now, we’re just recovering from the rebellion. It was hard on everyone. Now that we have you, I think our best plan is to find a way to unite witches and dragons.”

“I don’t know how to do that! Trust me, you don’t want to rely on me as your plan. It’s not going to go well.”

“We know you don’t know how.” Mace gave her a kind smile. “We’re not expecting you to do it alone. We’ll all figure this out together.”

That made her feel a bit better. Rose brought each of them their trays. She perched on the couch next to Asher, feeding him one small bite at a time.

“Perhaps I should volunteer to be their spell guinea pig next.” Gavin winked at Rose. “Asher’s position certainly seems enviable right now.”

Rose threw a pea at him. “Don’t you dare! I don’t want you getting hurt either.

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