Dragon Claimed by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dark Kings, 1001 Dark Nights, dragon shifters, Donna Grant, romance
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cináed was rather impressed with how well Gemma was doing. Being on the isle was having a huge impact on her. She gripped his hand with the force of ten men, but it was the troubled look that filled her eyes that he wished he could erase.

But only she could do that by facing her past.

They walked to the house. Her steps were slow, hesitant even. He didn’t rush her, letting her set the pace. He continued to see if any spells or wards could be found while Merrill searched in the water. Even though the two of them had already been to the isle, this time Gemma was with them.

When he and Gemma finally reached the residence, she stopped at the front door and touched the ivy that trailed from the lattice structure they walked beneath.

“Da wanted roses,” Gemma said, looking up at the plant. “It was Mum who preferred ivy. She loved it. And Da gave her everything that she loved. At one time, there was ivy everywhere.”

“It certainly has flourished here,” Cináed pointed out.

Her fingers released the runner as her arm dropped to her side. “I used to try and jump up to reach it every time I came into the house.”

Gemma focused on the door, which allowed Cináed to look around for some sign of Merrill, who had decided to travel by water. Merrill chose to follow some of the currents around the isle to see if he could find anything else at the bottom of the sea.

The door creaked loudly when Gemma pushed it open. It was so warped that it didn’t shut properly. He tightened his hand around hers, and she gave him a grateful look before she stepped over the threshold.

Cináed had recently been there, so he kept his attention on her. Minute emotions ran over her face. Shock at the state of things, bitterness at having her life stripped from her, and the pain of remembering that horrible night.

But it was the thread of terror that really caught his interest.

Just as he suspected, there was more to the story of that night than she had shared. If only she were willing to reveal more, he might be able to tell her exactly what happened. Because the more he listened to her and the more he walked the isle, the more he began to suspect that magic had been at work.

But magic from who? It wasn’t the Dragon Kings, which left Druids or Fae. Coupled with the story that Gemma said her mother told her of two Druid siblings, which was eerily similar to the Clacher family who always had a brother and sister charged with regulating the Druids. Such coincidences just didn’t happen.

Gemma swallowed heavily as she walked room by room on the first floor. She came to the stairs, and it took her several minutes before she put one foot on the bottom step and began to make her way up.

To his surprise, she bypassed the second floor and went straight to the attic.

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