Shadow Magic (Dragon Born Alexandria Book 4) by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Spark Media
Published: 2021-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

18

The Spell of Entrapment

Light rain pattered on Alex’s hood, unseasonal—and unwelcome. She and Logan stood outside the Museum of Magic History, a pretty self-celebrating monument to the world’s oldest magic dynasties. Naturally, the museum was funded by those same rich magic families. The one-hundred-dollar entrance fee to the museum was only there to make you feel like you were paying for something truly extraordinary. It wasn’t even a drop in the bucket of the cost required to run the museum.

“I wonder if Kai’s family is featured in the museum,” Alex commented to Logan.

“They are. In fact, they have a very prominent section.”

“How do you know?” She smirked at him. “I didn’t take you for someone who liked to visit this museum to gaze upon the magic dynasties with admiration.”

“No.” His face was blank, but Alex could tell he really appreciated her joke. “I visited the Drachenburgs’ section to steal one of their books.”

“Why?”

“Because I needed the book for a bit.”

“Did you return it?” Alex asked.

“That would have been difficult considering that I needed the book in order to sell it.”

Alex snorted.

“You guys do realize that we’re all listening, don’t you?” Sera said in Alex’s earpiece.

Oops, Alex mouthed silently to Logan, then said to Sera, “I guess we’ll just pass the rest of our wait in silence.”

“You do that,” Kai said gruffly.

Alex bottled a laugh. She’d have preferred to let it out. She was really aching for a good laugh. Things had been awfully gloomy ever since Nightstar’s mages had taken Riley.

True to his word, Daemon had given them a very long list of spots to check out, places Nightstar had used as a base in the past, or places that were of special significance to Nightstar. Unfortunately, they hadn’t found Nightstar at any of them.

They had encountered more of Nightstar’s mages—or the Convictionites’ mages. Actually, Alex wasn’t sure whose mages they were. The only thing she was sure of was that they were the enemy. Anyone who stood between her and someone she loved was the enemy.

We’ll get Riley back, her dragon Nova told her.

Yes. I don’t intend to let the mages escape this time, replied Alex.

They’d fought so many of Nightstar’s mages over the past few days, and Alex was getting better at it. Like many crazy-powerful beings, their weakness was ego. Their overconfidence allowed Alex to get in close.

Just not close enough. Every time she’d nearly had the mages, they’d escaped through a teleportation glyph.

Alex was so tired of it all. So frustrated. She didn’t feel any closer to rescuing Riley than when they’d started. Nightstar was like a ghost.

He’s no ghost, Alex. He’s just a man, Nova reminded her.

A man who leaves no trace, Alex replied. We can’t find him anywhere. But we are finding his mages. Now we just need to trap one of them before they escape. That will bring us one step closer to Nightstar…and to Riley.

The spell we found in that old Dragon Born magic book in Makani’s library, the Spell of Entrapment, Nova said.

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