Home: Hidden Book Three by Vanderlinden Colleen

Author:Vanderlinden, Colleen [Vanderlinden, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Building Block Studios LLC
Published: 2014-02-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

When I came out of the gateway, I was hit with both intense relief that I'd ended up right where I'd meant to (I was imagining coming out in the middle of someone's bedroom or something) and the fact that my connection to Brennan blared brighter, brought to full strength again by my return to my own world. The strength of it took my breath away, brought tears to my eyes.

I stood in my back yard, one of the few places in the entire world I'd ever felt much peace. It was evening, the sky just barely lighter in the west, stars bright above. My garage stood to the right, and the lawn was longish, but had been mowed recently enough that it still looked like someone lived there. The huge oak that shaded the main part of the yard stood tall and sturdy, its now-brown leaves making a crackly, wispy sound as the cool breeze blew through them. Red and yellow leaves littered the grass; the maple and birch tree in my yard were nearly bare.

So, autumn. It had been at least a year, then, since it had been October when I'd been pulled into the Nether. The thought of a year passing in the lives of my friends and loved ones, a year in which they'd gone through god-knows-what, scared the hell out of me. Was everyone even still alive?

I couldn't feel my bond with Nain. What did that mean? I'd expected that to flare to life again now that we were both in the same realm again. I didn't want to think about what it might mean. If he was dead, his death was on my hands.

Again.

I turned around and looked at the immortals who had come through with me. My parents smiled, though I could sense tension in them, too. They weren't any happier than I was about the fact that the immortals would have free reign in my world now. And at least a few of them would be only too happy to pay me back for making them bow to me. I'd deal with it later.

I glanced at each of them. "Okay. You're here. Don't fuck up or I will come and find you. Bye." And with that, I kicked off, rose into the air with a few strong flaps of my wings. There was one person I wanted to see, and he definitely wasn't one of the immortals I'd spent too much time with. I focused on my connection to Brennan. He was somewhere to my south. Not tremendously far away, I didn't think.

My stomach twisted in anticipation. I was home. I'd see him again. I'd tell him about how he'd saved my life, kept me sane. As I flew, I looked down at my city. Parts of it were dark. I wondered if they'd always looked this dark from above, or if that was something caused by the war between the Aether and the Nether. It was quiet, and the evening air was cool against my skin.

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