Treasure Bear by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten – Emilia

Sadness resided in her heart as they drove away from the ruins of the home she’d grown up in. Not just sadness for the state of the building, but also over Perry’s betrayal and the memories of her mother.

They are gone, and we are not, her dragon told her. We can either live our lives in sadness or embrace this second chance.

My heart is heavy, Emilia replied.

It was not our choice to sleep for so long, but it is our choice to move on and make the most of our lives now. We have our mate, Thorn, and Magnus by our side. We are not alone.

“Do you know what’s strange?” Emilia asked Thorn.

“What?” he asked as he started the truck and drove away from the creek.

“I don’t feel like the same girl who grew up in the cottage. It’s as if someone told me a story and the main character had the same name as me.” She turned her head away and watched the scenery as they passed by, watching for landmarks she recognized as she compared the past and the present.

“The passage of time might have affected you even if you don’t think it did.” Thorn took a turn toward Bear Bluff, which had been a small market town that traded heavily with Bear Creek and the surrounding shifter towns.

“Hundreds of years of dreaming. I wish I could recall them all. But only fragments remain.” A melancholy mood settled on her. Yesterday she’d been filled with wonder at being alive and out of the cave. But today, the ghosts of the past watched over her shoulder. Would they fade? “After we have visited with your parents, I’d like to spend some time with Magnus.”

Thorn took a sideways glance at her. “You two must have a lot to talk about.”

“We do.” Tears threatened, and she blinked them away. She was scared to face Magnus. This was all her fault. If Perry hadn’t become obsessed with her… How could she not have seen it?

“Are we going to tell my parents everything?” Thorn asked when he turned off the main road and headed toward a large house with a wrap-around porch, surrounded by the most beautiful gardens Emilia had ever seen.

Perry’s gardens, like many others of the period, were formal and stiff, like the people who lived in them. While the gardens of the lower classes, the poorer people, were filled with vegetables and fruits, there was little room for flowers. The rose outside the cottage door had been her mother’s one extravagance amongst the vegetables she grew in the kitchen garden she tended diligently. Those times had changed, too, and Thorn’s parents’ garden was filled to bursting with flowers and shrubs, trees and bushes. Joy filled her heart, pushing her sadness away.

“It’s beautiful,” Emilia said with awe as Thorn halted the truck under the shade of a large oak tree.

“The house has been in my family for generations,” Thorn said, getting out of the truck. “This was part of Perry’s estate.

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