Defiance and the Dragon (Redwood Dragons Book 1) by Sloane Meyers

Author:Sloane Meyers [Meyers, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Bree had checked and double-checked her backpack, and yet she still felt like she was forgetting something. It was ridiculous for her to feel that way, since everything she owned at the moment fit into that backpack. She figured it was just nerves. If this mission went badly, things would go badly for a whole lot of people. Bree hated feeling like she quite literally had the weight of the world on her shoulders, but she figured it couldn’t be helped. She had chosen her path when she decided to run away from Falcon Cross. She had decided to be courageous, and now she had no choice but to remain courageous until the end, whenever that might be.

“Ready?” Knox asked, poking his head into the doorway of his cabin. Bree looked up at him, and, as usual, her heart skipped a beat at the sight of him. She had tried to ignore her growing feelings for him, but the more she tried to act like he didn’t mean anything special to her, the more he seemed to make her heart pound. She suspected that a big part of her nerves surrounding this journey were due to the fact that he was the one going with her.

“I’m ready,” she said. “Ready as I’ll ever be, I guess.”

He nodded. “Give me a few minutes to give Noah some last minute instructions. I’ll meet you out by the fire pit in about five minutes.”

“Alright,” Bree said. Knox disappeared from view as Bree pulled her backpack onto her shoulders, wondering for the thousandth time that day whether she and Knox actually had a chance at pulling this off. Their plan was basic and haphazard. They were going to rent out an apartment in Mountain View, California, the city in the heart of Silicon Valley where the gem collector lived. They would stalk him, trying to figure out where the stone was and how they could steal it and replace it with a fake sapphire.

Knox had a lot of connections with shady people skilled in things like creating fake replicas of gemstones. Bree didn’t ask him for too many details. She figured that when you spent your life tracking down ancient artifacts and guarding those artifacts, you had to play a trick or two now and then. One of Knox’s trickster friends was working on a fake sapphire to match the dragon sapphire, and would be handing it off to them when they arrived in Silicon Valley.

The best case scenario would be if Knox and Bree could get the real stone and replace it with a fake stone before the men who were hunting down the stone realized what had happened. This would be difficult to achieve, however. Bree knew that the men were following the stone closely, and would likely make a move to steal it as soon as it arrived at its final location in Silicon Valley. Luckily, Bree had magic on her side, but she wasn’t sure that even that would be enough.

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