Tanglewood Legacy (The Three Sisters Book 3) by Genevieve Jack

Author:Genevieve Jack [Jack, Genevieve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter

Twelve

“I’m sorry… Have we met before?” The smoky scent of the dragon met her nose, and she examined him, disbelieving what was right in front of her. His illusion was good; she’d give him that. He appeared before her, a tall, dark human in contemporary finery. But all the signs were there. His unusually large size, the way his eyes reflected light more like a cat’s than a human’s, and this place, he was standing amid his own stash of treasure.

“No,” she said quickly. “I was just admiring your inventory.” Standing in the man’s proximity was like being in the shadow of a mountain. The aura of a warrior surrounded him. Isis knew her own power and, even so, was intimidated by his presence. She watched his nostrils flare and the smile fade from his lips.

Rounding the crowded room, he kept his distance while making his way toward the front of the store. “Is there anything I can help you find?” he asked, but his voice was wooden. She sized him up, and he did the same to her. Who was more afraid of whom?

“I was wondering where you obtained the emerald in the window and the one on your finger,” she asked, pointedly gazing at his large emerald ring. That piece of jewelry was charged with so much magic she could almost taste it. She knew what it meant, what he was.

He kept moving until he reached the door, and she realized too late he was closing it, locking it, placing his body between her and freedom. “What brings you here, witch?”

She should have known it would be impossible to hide what she was from him. “I should ask you the same, dragon.”

“Who are you?” he asked.

When she had left Ouros with her sisters, Paragon had initiated a smear campaign against witches. Time was a funny thing. Time in Ouros and time on Earth ran at two different speeds, sometimes rushing forward like a raging river and other times as meandering as a shallow stream. Without knowing when the dragon left Paragon for this realm, she couldn’t be sure if she was safe sharing the truth about their circumstances. Medea had been queen of Darnuith. Eleanor and Brynhoff thought she was dead. Although Isis and Circe did not suffer the defamation that their sister did, people knew who they were at the time of their leaving, and most dragons either feared or hated them. She was in no hurry to find out if this dragon was one of them.

“Someone who means you no harm,” she said finally, raising her chin. “My family and I came here to live a peaceful existence away from the strife and turmoil we experienced in Darnuith.”

“Then you are from Paragon,” he said, and she tried not to wince. The realm they were from was once called Ouros. Paragon, the kingdom of dragons, was just one of the five kingdoms that made up the continent. The kingdom of the witches, Darnuith, where she was from, was another.

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