Dragon Reborn: Dragon Point Five by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988328690
Publisher: New York Times Bestselling Author

Chapter Fourteen

“Why in tarnation was Deka grinning like a fool?” Yolanda asked, the slightest of creases marring her brow.

“As if you don’t know,” Babette snorted. “Surely, you’re not that dense, Mother?” Just in case, she might have done a hip sway and sung a few bars of Bow-chica-wow-wow.

The exaggerated sigh was totally worth it.

“Who was the naked man behind her?” Aunt Xylia asked.

“Who do you think it was?” Then again, the scruffy beard made it hard to tell. The fact that they’d seen anything at all was a surprise. With the empty farm field a bust, they’d regrouped at the hotel. It was Aunt Xylia who returned at the insistence of Aunt Valda to set up surveillance in case there was an entrance to a hidden underground base. Those existed a lot more than people realized.

The tripod and camera they’d left behind hadn’t caught a single thing but buzzing bees and butterflies until the interdimensional rip opened!

That caused quite a stir.

“We should have set up base camp in the field,” Xylia grumbled, miffed they’d not stayed behind. However, in their defense, they’d not exactly expected a portal between worlds.

When the dark doorway opened unexpectedly, with a crackle of lightning in a cloudless sky, it set off the alarms on their video surveillance system. Shoving each other out of the way, jostling for position, they’d crowded around the laptop, only to gape in astonishment as the very air itself turned into an opaque portal that gave a glimpse into another world.

A hellish-looking world with a stormy sky split with jagged branches of lightning, ancient-looking monolith-type rings of stone, and the hint of a castle beyond it.

So freaking cool.

A figure, the eyes a bright red, the cloak billowing in true super-villain fashion, swept through the rip.

“It’s that bitch who delivered us Anastasia’s head!” Babette remarked.

As if any of them would ever forget those glowing red orbs.

The woman in the cloak, which danced around her like ephemeral strands of smoke, paused only a moment to look behind through the portal at the world she fled. A doorway that showed—

“There’s Deka!” Babette pointed to the silver dragon that flowed into view.

“Shhh.”

They kept watching, and through the shitty video feed saw Deka pause instead of coming through. Shifting to her human form, she glanced over her shoulder as if looking for someone. Then, instead of stepping through the door, she waved and mouthed something.

The portal shut. But Babette would have wagered Deka was fine with that because she’d found her Golden prince. Actually, Deka’s exact mouthed words were—as Aunt V later deciphered through the use of video replay and lip reading—“Having the time of my life. Tell Mom not to worry.”

But that was later. In the here and now, they sat around staring at the screen, showing once again a cow field with scraggly grass and flitting butterflies.

Of the red-eyed woman, nothing. Of Deka, also no trace. As for the doorway, examination by the finest equipment couldn’t detect it.

Later that day, hands on her hips, Babette’s mother surveyed the field.

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