Dragons Reign: A Novel of Dragons Realm (Dragons Realm Saga Book 2) by Tessa Dawn

Author:Tessa Dawn [Dawn, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781937223267
Publisher: Ghost Pines Publishing
Published: 2018-02-17T18:30:00+00:00

II

PART TWO

DRAGONS REBELLION

When asked why Sparta lacked fortifications, King Agesilaus pointed to his men: “These are Sparta’s walls.”

Chapter Nineteen

Castle Warlochia ~ 8:00 P.M.

Cassidy Bondeville stared out her bedchamber window from the western wing of the castle, scanning the castle grounds and searching the cobblestone road. The sun had set hours ago; the moon was glowing pale gray; and still, she had not seen Prince Dante or her son, Dario, since Wednesday, when she had found herself inexplicably in the throne room, without any memory of what she was doing there. As if that wasn’t strange enough, Princess Gaia had gone missing as well. According to a stable-hand named Jack, the princess had procured a horse in the middle of the night and ridden off in the direction of Forest Dragon.

Whatever had the woman been thinking?

This was a realm filled with unseen ghosts and untold dangers!

Cassidy wrung her hands together nervously and narrowed her gaze.

Someone was coming up the path!

Four horses, carrying Prince Dante, Prince Ari, Prince Azor, and Prince Asher; a woman in a tattered dress, riding behind the youngest prince—no, that was Princess Gaia!—and something, or someone, strapped to a travois, being dragged behind Prince Dante’s horse.

What in the name of the gods?

Cassidy made a tent over her eyes with her left hand, pressed her forehead against the pane of the window, and strained to see the drag sled.

And then she gasped.

She would recognize that honey-gold mane anywhere; she would recognize that deep sapphire cloak, despite its bedraggled state. The male strapped to the travois, tormented in chains and muzzled like a wild animal, was her precious, only son, Prince Dario.

A surge of rage and desperation, unlike anything she had ever known, swelled in her breast, and she turned on her heel to sprint from the room. By all the gods, both good and evil, this couldn’t be happening. What had Prince Dario done to deserve such egregious treatment? What would cause his father to do such a thing, to demean him like a common criminal, and in front of his cousins, no less?

No, this was much, much worse.

He was strapped to that contraption like a hunter’s trophy—like a fresh slab of meat!—and his body looked unbearably weak, like someone had drained his essence…leeched his dragon’s fire.

This could not go unchallenged.

Not even by a slave: a Sklavos Ahavi…

Prince Dante had some serious explaining to do.

Cassidy would never let this be, not even if her insolence cost her own life.

Not this time.

She dashed through the castle halls, flew down the grand cascading staircase, and entered the foyer, fuming, her delicate hands curved into fists. “What is the meaning of this!” she shouted as the castle doors swung open, and Prince Dante and his nephews stormed in, dragging Prince Dario behind them. “Why are Prince Damian’s sons here, at Castle Warlochia!” A painful sensation, like the prickling of needles, disturbed the back of her skull—it felt like something was trying to burrow in—and then the piercing sensation abruptly ended as suddenly as it had begun, leaving her mind as stiff as wool.

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