Throne of Oak (Maggie's Grove) by Bell Dana Marie

Author:Bell, Dana Marie [Bell, Dana Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Mina shook her head, the throbbing pain not hers, but Dragos’s. It was so sudden, so intense, she felt dizzy.

What the hell was Selena doing to Dragos? Driving spikes into his eyes?

She rubbed her forehead and prayed Dragos understood why she’d severed the connection. Even without trying to maintain it she could feel him in the back of her mind, the pain waiting to drive her to her knees. If she relaxed for even a second and let him back in, that agony would come rushing into her mind, swamping her senses. She doubted she’d be able to remain conscious. How Dragos was doing so was beyond her comprehension, but he was, and doing his own part to shield her from his suffering.

Ash and Greer would help him, and now that he’d made up with his brothers they, too, would protect him. She doubted Trajan or Vasile would let Dragos out of their sight for the foreseeable future. If Kate could get to him in his own home, she could get to him anywhere.

And that was unacceptable.

Damn it. Van Helsings, dragon brothers, and now Kate. What else was going to jump out and bite them in the ass?

Mina jumped as a roar erupted in the night, shattering the quiet evening and sending the animals scurrying for cover. That didn’t sound like any creature she’d heard before—and she’d heard the cries of quite a few. For one thing it was loud, shaking-the-trees loud, and so low it vibrated through her bones. For another, it was close, closer than she’d thought as a sudden wind blew the leaves of the oak, ash, birch and yew in the sacred circle.

Flame erupted in the night—a yellowish-orange so bright it nearly blinded her—setting the trees outside the ring on fire.

Shit. If that spread, if it got out of control in the least, the entire forest could go.

Mina ran for her throne. She couldn’t hide, not now. Couldn’t get out of the way of the beast that was coming for her. The branches of her oak swayed, the leaves rustling as she settled herself on her throne. She closed her eye and reached out to the trees and shrubs surrounding the Throne, feeling their pain as the fire scorched bark and withered leaves. She sent out feelers through root and branch, leaf and sap, slipping into the collective consciousness of the forest as only the Queen could.

She had to warn them, warn them all. The cry went out—the Queen summoning the elementals, the animals, the very trees themselves to the defense of the Throne. None would be able to ignore the summons, not the lowliest water sprite or the greatest dryad in town, Amara. They would all come.

She only prayed they would not be too late.

Mina settled fully on her throne, her senses stretched to the limit, reaching through the forest and beyond to summon her defenders. Ash and Greer answered the call, racing through town with a speed that would have startled any but those who knew them.

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