No Witch Way Out (Maeren Series Book 2) by Mercedes Jade

Author:Mercedes Jade [Jade, Mercedes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00

Backdraft

Maeren

Phillip

Phillip examined the soot stained mantle in the king’s bedroom.

Marble didn’t burn, but nearly everything else in the room had melted or turned to ash. It looked like a firebomb, sent by catapult, had landed on the fireplace and exploded outward.

The ash was an inch thick in some spots. He trailed a finger along the mantle hitting some cinders, still burning.

“There’s a portal through the back of the fireplace. That’s where Daemon escaped,” William said, indifferent to the destruction around them.

Earth healers saw the worst side of battle, frontline amputations and deaths as common to them as milk added to tea.

“This doesn’t make sense,” Phillip said, turning to take in the room’s total destruction again. “Daemon was already on the throne. None of us would have challenged him if he wanted to stay on it.”

“The kingdom wouldn’t have continued to follow a demon king,” William said. “You know the lords were already rebelling. Our father would have replaced Daemon, for you, to settle them. I told you the maid had overheard father talking about abdicating and crowning you.”

Phillip swept the ashes from the mantle with his air, ignoring William’s cursing as the embers left lit up and rained down around them. Phillip snuffed every hint of fire with a mere thought, closing his eyes and sucking all that heat into his chest.

Their father had been one of the greatest fire kings Maeren had ever seen and he had been burned to death in his bed.

Had his father’s mind been so gone that he couldn’t defend himself against his own element?

“Open the door to the portal,” Phillip demanded.

The mantle looked like solid brick but an earth prince should be able to find any fault with ease.

William had said the portal was open and a piece of the marble displaced up, when he entered with the guards earlier. Whatever vampire had disturbed the room to close it again would be answering for his actions to Phillip by the end of the day.

William touched the mantle with reluctance.

Phillip didn’t have any patience for his dirt phobia today.

“Get on with it,” Phillip said. “If you can’t stand to be in the room, then send me up an earth lord with a bit more grit.”

“It should be me,” William said, finding the break in the mantle and lifting the stone with his magic. “Our father, at least, deserves his remaining, loyal sons to personally investigate and avenge his murder. I had been so close . . . If only, I’d insisted on the guards breaking down the door sooner or if I had taken the maid’s concerns more seriously, when she told me Daemon had gone into a rage after Father called him to his room, throwing her out.”

William smashed his fist against the mantle, obliterating the clever lever built into the marble and slamming shut the door he had been opening to the portal.

“Oh Maeren, I’m sorry,” apologized an embarrassed William, coughing from the dust of the broken stone.

Was William serious right now? His

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