Pure Destiny: A Novel of the Pure Ones (PureDark Ones Book 16) by Aja James

Author:Aja James [James, Aja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

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Sophia was getting rather attached to caves.

Such utilitarian rock formations—great for shelter from the elements, as a hideout from potential threats, and quite luxurious when there’s close access to water as well as dry kindling for a cozy fire.

Her history with caves, underground enclosures, caverns and such had been quite eventful. She was practically a connoisseur. She should start a travel tour for five-star cavern stays.

Her first experience kind of ruined her for all others—during her trip to China when she was ten years-old, newly dubbed Queen of the Pure Ones. Chaperoned by Ayelet and Valerius, their task was to recruit the race’s most powerful healer, Rain, into the Royal Zodiac.

Rain’s society of Pure and human healers, all women, inhabited a web of underground facilities beneath the famous West Lake in Hangzhou. The enclosures were outfitted with both ancient and modern luxuries, nostalgic and convenient. Magical.

Such an experience was hard to beat, especially given Sophia’s next, less voluntary stay.

The second time, she was abducted several years ago by the Creature (or Erebu under Medusa’s orders). She’d been taken to a maze of abandoned underground tunnels outside of Boston. Creepy, like catacombs. She was kept in a gilded cage, taunted but not harmed. She didn’t remember much else; she’d been drugged out during the Elite’s counter-attack and rescue. And when she finally gained consciousness, Dalair was gone.

That experience was decidedly unmagical, given that they’d lost two Elite warriors and the Pure Ones’ Scribe in the final battles.

The third time, Dalair himself had abducted her. Taken her right out of the Shield from under everyone’s noses.

He took her to a hidden location in the Catskills. She was kept there for many days, perhaps even weeks. She’d lost track of time. Then, he helped her escape (or so she thought), and she succumbed to their need for each other under a secluded rock overhang much like the one at the entrance of the cave she huddled within now.

Which brought her to her present circumstances: holed up for the night in this cozy cave whose entrance was hidden by the liquid shield of a waterfall, waiting for Dalair to return from whatever he was doing outside.

It didn’t occur to Sophia to run for it while Dalair left her and Benji alone for the time being.

First, because the little boy was tuckered out, sleeping like the dead in a huddled ball in a small nook toward the back of the cave behind a row of rocks that almost entirely blocked him from view.

And who could blame him?

He’d been taken from his home, thrown off a fifty-story building, absconded in a helicopter to the middle of nowhere, hurled out of the helicopter into a freezing lake, dragged out of said lake and carried on his abductor’s back through dense woods, until finally they called it a night in this hidden cave after taking care of various bodily needs in rote, zombie trances.

Sophia was exhausted just retracing their experiences in her head, never mind that she lived through them right alongside Benji.

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