Magee, Jamie - [Edge 06] - Queen's Rise by Jamie Magee

Author:Jamie Magee [Magee, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2015-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

To her horror, Adair’s lungs filled with dark, murky water. She was sure death was calling her name and her mother had fooled her. There was no light, no direction, and the more she panicked, the worse her dread grew.

She kicked and thrashed, not even sure which way was up. When her foot slammed into something hard, she screamed underwater, fearing the worst.

Then she realized it was glass, like a dome, and swam alongside of it, half trying to peer inside, the other simply looking for air.

Twenty-one agonizing seconds later, she found it. The dome had led her to the base of a statue, and now Adair was coughing and gasping for breath as she climbed even higher and clung to the enormous stone wings. She was surrounded by water on every side. And worse yet, she was sure she was not alone—she could feel the eyes of nature on her. There were ripples in the water, and it parted for a massive animal.

In the distance, she could hear people yelling. Most of their words sounded like ‘be still.’ There were cuss words coming from the men and comforting words being yelled by Gwinn. Above it all, she heard Judge, Dagen, and Scorpio arguing about who was at fault and what should be done now. Adair couldn’t understand why a plan of action was in question. Either someone was going to come and get her, or she was going to swim for it—that is, once it was daylight and she could see all things lurking about.

Then she felt him.

Judge appeared right next to her and pulled her into his arms, patting her back as she coughed and then soothing the back of her head as she settled.

Figuring out she was alive and had survived some twisted form of drowning made her feel triumphant, but it was short lived because then her mind flashed over all she had seen, all she knew now. She was doomed. This wasn’t about saving Talley, putting him at peace. It was about finding a way to not be the mother of all things evil, a way to stop this devil who had been a threat to her since before she was even an idea.

Her downward spiral into a well-deserved panic attack was stopped short when she noticed what was all around them.

She flinched, and Judge held her tighter. “Shh,” he cooed as he rocked her. “Jade said to let the souls pass, they allowed Ambrosia here undetected and you to return the same.”

As calm as his voice sounded, she could feel his body tense under hers, see how set his jaw was, she could feel his heart pounding in sync with hers.

Slowly, Adair looked down into the water. Swirling around them in a wide oval were spirits, they were not at peace, but they were not troubled, simply on their path.

Any other time Adair might have found some kind of eerie awe for them, but not after what she had just been through, and

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