Reign of Rebels by D. D. Miers & Graceley Knox

Author:D. D. Miers & Graceley Knox [Miers, D. D. & Knox, Graceley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chaotic Press, LLC
Published: 2019-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

I pushed the plate holding what was left of my fries across the laminate table to Prescot and gave Grayson my full attention. He picked at my leftovers and gently kicked the metal post that anchored the table to the floor, waiting for Gray to finish what he was saying. It was weird to see a sixteen-year-old who still seemed so childlike after taking care of my Fae kids.

With a little wave, I called the waitress back over to add a second chocolate shake to his supper. I know shifters, and he wasn’t eating enough to make me feel comfortable that he could handle a change if it was necessary.

“Okay, what’s the plan, Gray?” I asked the moment the bouncy young server headed away from the table.

“We go to the aged one and get her to handfast us. No one can question her authority in the pack. If she blesses us, the pack must accept you.”

“Why? Who is she, and why don’t I know her already?”

“She’s, she’s like the spiritual leader of the pack. She was the queen, and then the queen mother, and now she’s quietly living out her life in a little house on the water.”

“And who is she?”

“Her name is Eloise Masters, and she’s what we call, the Jord Bjorn, or Mother Bear.”

Prescot swallowed hard and stared at Gray, his eyes like saucers. “We’re gonna go see the Jord Bjorn? Damn.”

"She can help gain Morgan, the support of the final members of the pack. She's ancient, and according to Gideon, she's got witch magic." Gray rubbed his hands together. "But there's a little snag in getting to her."

I took a breath and counted slowly. “A, why am I not surprised. B, what’s the snag?”

“We need the witches to get us to her. Gideon had them put all kinds of spells, wards, whatever, on her home to keep her in, and others out.”

Because that's just the way, our lives go. Gideon had been a powerful alpha who probably expected a long life. But when he was assassinated by forces beyond him, and almost beyond Gray and I, in the end, he'd left a lot of loose ends for his successor, and they seem to crop up at the most inopportune times.

A rock settled into my stomach as I forced my self to ask, “who set the wards for him?”

Gray's look of apology was all I needed. My estranged aunt was the head of the coven, more powerful than she ever had been when she was my jailer and gleeful executor of my personal hell. We'd saved her life, and she might have been grateful if in doing so we hadn't exposed her daughter's hate and bigotry. With my cousin on the run from her and the coven, I didn't think Portia MacSolais was going to have a whole lot of motivation to help if I was involved.

“How do you go to see her? Why haven’t you told me about her before?”

“She’s a shifter, Mo. She made the decision to live and die alone, and we respect that.

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