Wicked Queen by Megan Montero

Author:Megan Montero [Montero, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leo Press
Published: 2019-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Zinnia

Brax sat on the floor back in his human form. He leaned up against the wall with his legs extended out in front of him. Claw marks ran down his arms and pieces of his black army pants were missing. His head was tilted back, resting on the wall behind him, and he had his eyes closed. Sherman was once again back in his carrier and strapped to Brax’s chest. But the sight that stopped me dead in my tracks was the wild cat that lay with its entire body pressed against Brax’s side. The cat laid its head in Brax’s lap just below the carrier.

“Don’t you hear the alarms? We have to go!” I pointed toward the hole on the other side of the room.

“Da, I hear them.” He motioned to the cat. “She needed a cuddle.”

“You do realize that cuddle cat could slit your throat with the flick of its tail, right?” I marched over to the hole. “Let’s go.”

Brax slowly rose to his feet. He dusted his hands off and patted the cat on the head. “Come on, let’s go.”

He took two steps toward the opening in the wall and the ninja assassin cat followed in his wake. Ophelia put her hands on her hips. “You can’t be seriously considering taking that thing with us.”

Brax nodded. “She’s coming.”

The alarms continued to blare and footsteps vibrated in the ceiling overhead. I grabbed Ophelia’s jacket and yanked her toward me. “We don’t have time for this. The cat’s coming.”

Tucker hesitated. “Zin, I don’t think it’s a good—”

“My mom is up there. We’re going now. We’ll figure out the cat later.” I walked through the falling doorway Sherman destroyed. Ophelia raced in front of me to guide our way out. She broke into a run with the rest of us following closely behind. All that could be heard was the sound of our footfalls. My heart raced in my chest. Mom, I’m coming. My breaths came in panicked puffs, not from running, but from the nerves I felt at finally seeing her after all this time.

A couple quick turns and we sprinted straight out of the tunnel in a skirmish. Ashryn sat perched on the top of the tunnel with her bow and arrow at the ready. Bodies of Alataris’ minions lay on the ground all with arrows jutting from different parts of their bodies. Not a single one was dead, but each was wounded enough for them to stay down. I spun in a circle. “Mom? Where’s my mom?”

An angry bellow drew my gaze up toward the top of the castle. There on the very top edge of the wall stood my mom. Her back was to me and the others stood in front of her in a loose semi-circle. The wind kicked up, sending her wild waves that matched my own flying in the breeze. She shoved Serrina to the side and took a hit from an energy ball right in the shoulder. Her upper body jerked from the impact and she stumbled two steps back.

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