Rise From The Embers (Lightness Saga Book 4) by Stacey Marie Brown

Author:Stacey Marie Brown [Brown, Stacey Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Did I take her words to heart? No. Not as much as I should have.

Magic swirled around the room, our hair billowing, the power of the spell scraping, leaching the strength from us. But still we pressed on, sitting in the middle of the floor, both of us gripping the sides of the pot, pouring what felt like our blood into it.

Every muscle and nerve of mine felt shredded. Sweat poured down my back, and my throat was raw from chanting over and over. Exhaustion shook my body as I tried to keep from falling over.

And still the cauldron sat lifeless. One moment, I thought I felt a pulse, a beat of life. That could have been more wishful thinking on my end.

“Take a break.” Fionna wiped her brow, sitting back. “You need to rest.”

“No, I swear I felt something last time.”

“No.” Fionna batted my hand away from the rim of the cauldron. “I won’t let you hurt yourself. You still have millions of people to protect. You are Queen.”

“And as Queen, I order you to stop bossing me around.”

“You’re not my Queen.” She winked. “Simply my annoying little sister.”

“You know I have dungeons below.” I tilted my head, sitting back on my heels.

“Damn, playing dirty.” She grinned, falling back on her butt, her face lined with fatigue. “Sounds like a true Cathbad.”

It still felt strange to think of myself as a Cathbad and not a Johnson. I was both. I knew that. But it also felt good to think I came from such a powerful family, born in Ireland to Keela and Reghan. My mother was the daughter of the infamous Cathbad, a Druid who gained such favor with the gods and royals he became more powerful than them.

That favor eventually became a threat. He was killed, along with millions of other Druids. Aneira created fear and hate which drove remaining Druids underground. My parents, deep in the black arts, hid my sister and me from Aneira, separating us for our safety. I grew up in Olympia, Washington, as Kennedy Johnson. A nerdy human girl.

It wasn’t until Lorcan and I infiltrated an extremist Druid group called the DLR that I was led to their general, my sister, and the truth of my biological family.

“Kennedy?” My name rang down the hallway, picking up my head. His voice was an instant energy boost to my heart. “Li’l druid?” Lorcan stepped in the room, a grin hooking up the side of his mouth, then it quickly dropped, his eyes moving over me and the cauldron.

“What are you two doing?”

I leaned over the pot to hide it.

“Nothing.” I blinked innocently, knowing he wouldn’t buy my crap for a moment.

“Ken…” He growled, putting his hands on his hips.

“She started it.” I pointed over my shoulder.

“Tattletale!” Fionna shot back. “Feck…you held out for what, a half second?”

“Nah-uh.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Is this what it would have been like to parent you two?” He rubbed his forehead. “Note for the future: have boys. I can’t handle girls.”

“Excuse me?” My eyebrows went up into my hairline.

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