Witch Darkness Follows (Maeren Series Book 3) by Mercedes Jade

Author:Mercedes Jade [Jade, Mercedes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-07T06:00:00+00:00

Freedom to Choose

Her shout to ‘halt’ echoed around them.

Elizabeth blushed, cursing herself in her head for being so loud.

A dozen heads swivelled toward her, including Pan’s scarfed one.

Pan was dressed like a bedouin boy again, courtesy of something Geer had scrounged up for her when the borrowed, oversized shirts proved impractical.

Raphael stomped over to Elizabeth.

“Do you think if you shouted louder, the light sentries could hear you? They are getting into their dotage.”

Elizabeth blushed harder.

She hadn’t been paying attention to her surroundings, intent on complying with George’s command to wait in order to avoid a real bottom baring punishment when her mates caught up.

“What’s going on?” Pan asked, glancing around nervously.

“The princes want us to wait for them. They’re about twenty minutes out,” Elizabeth explained. “We’re not near any light sentries,” she added, ensuring to take a quick ping for all of the surrounding minds.

Raphael looked annoyed by the delay. His mouth was pinched and he was tapping his foot.

Somebody was impatient.

“We hardly need your princes to help us subdue the light clan. I’ve brought enough warriors to take care of this quickly, so you can fulfill your side of the bargain, witch,” Raphael said, turning towards the waiting battalion.

“Do you really want to drag them into this?” Pan asked.

Somebody else was having second thoughts.

Elizabeth threw her hands up.

“They didn’t make it optional. You’re the one that wanted to blackmail them into helping you,” she reminded Pan.

She pointed to Raphael, who had turned back again.

“You want their sister to give you a chance, so I don’t see how you’re going to avoid spending time with the family,” she told him, finger quoting ‘the family’ for emphasis.

Honestly, how could any of them be this dense?

It was unavoidable eventually meeting up with George and Daemon.

Why make it difficult now?

“They promised to be on their best behaviour,” Elizabeth added.

"Liar, liar!" Daemon teased, still connected to her mind.

"How should we politely make dragon heads roll?" George added.

Elizabeth ignored those two idiots. They were full of fun and games today.

“The Dogs are also with them,” she told Pan.

It was only fair to give her a head’s up.

The already nervous girl took a couple of steps back, her eyes widening with the beginnings of true alarm.

“Do you think they know that I—It wasn’t a trick, exactly. In fact, I kind of helped the Dogs find Prince George . . . uh, but don’t t-tell—”

Pan stuttered and cut off, clearly having difficulty articulating a blameless excuse for setting the Dogs up against George, then playing them against each other to orchestrate her escape with Elizabeth.

Raphael eyed the young dragoness with equal parts amusement and concern. He held a hand up to the dragons behind him.

“We’re taking a break until the royal party meets up with us for the siege and invasion,” he called back to his warriors.

“Where’s Geer?” Elizabeth asked, noting it was a dragon she didn’t know who started getting all of the soldiers to halt and relax for a break.

“He’s at the back. Now that we’ve stopped, he’ll come here to find out the reason,” Raphael answered.

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