Charred Hope (#3, Heart of Fire) by Ford Lizzy

Author:Ford, Lizzy [Ford, Lizzy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Guerrilla Wordfare
Published: 2014-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Miles away, Chace landed beside the great silver-white dragon at the base of a mountain about an hour flight from the meadow where he’d left Sky. The door in the stone before him was camouflaged by boulders that rendered it impossible to spot from the sky. There were no roads nearby or any trace that anyone had ever been here. It was a perfect place to keep something hidden from a dragon.

He shifted and dressed, watching as Freyja did the same.

She was as beautiful as she had been in the dream and as he recalled from their short time together so long ago. Her smile was cold and didn’t reach her eyes. She dressed in leggings and a tunic, her blonde hair reaching the small of her back.

When she’d appeared out of the forest an hour ago, after taking Skylar to a field near the compound. He’d been ready to tear Freyja limb from limb on sight. He was certain there was nothing she could say to keep him from doing it, either. And then she spoke. One simple sentence turned his world around.

I know where Sky’s mother is.

How could he not follow her here?

Chace watched Freyja approach the stone door and type in a code on a keypad. He glanced down at his phone and saw that Skylar had texted.

I’m good. Be there soon. Don’t start without me, he replied then tucked the phone away.

“You were really busy for someone who was supposed to be hibernating,” he stated.

“I failed with you. I wasn’t going to fail with her,” she replied. “It took some work and help from others like Dillon, but I succeeded.”

“I never doubted your determination.” Your heart is another matter. “So you attack Mason to lure us out then bring me here.”

“I don’t need Mason or his kind anymore,” she said. “I do need you, Chace.”

“And Sky.”

“Either one of you can get rid of my Dillon issue.”

The bolts to the door clicked, and she pulled the heavy door open. Freyja disappeared into the darkness beyond.

Chace trailed warily. He suspected he was being set up. But with his magic back, he had nothing to fear. Once he saw whatever it was Freyja wanted to show him, he’d return to Sky.

Hopefully with news about her mother. He’d witness the expression on her face whenever she mentioned her family, a sense of loss he understood after almost losing her. If there were any way to save Skylar the pain that came from not knowing, he’d find a way to do it, even if that meant following Freyja into a potential trap.

The dark tunnel leading beneath the mountain was narrow and short, the ceiling an inch or two above his head. He saw a faint glow indicating a perpendicular hallway and the ghost-like figure of Freyja walking ahead of him.

She turned towards the light, and he followed. A heavy door was on either side of the shallow hallway, and the light came from the crack beneath one.

Freyja typed in a

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