Page 34 of Must Love Dragons
“Um, okay?What’s going on?”
“I don’t have time to tell you everything, but my mate was just taken by the warlocks who attacked our clan and abducted Rorik.I need all of you to help me get her back safely.”
“Mate?”Lyra squeaked.
“Yes.Now hurry, please.I need you all.”
“You got it.See you soon.”
He ended the call and sent a pin to his sister, and then he opened the search engine and looked up the phone number for the familiar rescue.
He recognized Brody when the call was answered.“It’s Zay.Warlocks took Kinsley while I was checking the house to make sure it was safe.I’m trapped inside the house with some kind of damn barrier!I know you can’t leave because the sun hasn’t set, but can Delaney help me out?I need to get to Kinsley.”
“I’ll send Venice to watch over Delaney and I’m sure she can help you.”
“Thanks.Please tell her to hurry.”
“Of course.”
The call ended and Zay stood at the open front door he couldn’t cross, furious and scared.
Hold on, Kinsley.I’m coming for you.
* * *
By the time Delaney and Venice arrived, Zay was going stir-crazy.
“Please tell me you can get rid of this barrier,” he said when she and Venice approached.
“Yeah, I can get through this barrier.I know what spell she used, and she picked it because she knew the warlocks wouldn’t be able to get through it since it guards against dark magic.”
“It also fucking kept me from helping her,” he said with a growl.
Delaney smiled sadly.“Because she knew you were the one who was valuable to the warlocks.”
“She’s the valuable one.”
“I’ll grab my kit, I need a few things.”She hurried to the truck in the driveway.
“You’re okay, though?”Venice asked.
Zay nodded.“I can’t believe I let myself get separated from her.”
“You couldn’t have known that they were watching her house.”
“Ishouldhave known,” he said with a growl.
Delaney appeared with a tied-up leather roll.She knelt on the porch and unrolled it, revealing small vials, pouches, and stones etched with runes.
She took a vial of a purple powder and poured it into her hand, plucked a stone with a metallic sheen from the roll, and squeezed it in her left hand.
With practiced ease, she stood and spoke a spell.As each word rushed from her lips, the barrier warbled and twitched, and then she tossed the purple powder on the doorway and spoke words that were a language he didn’t know.
“Sha Fina.Sha Fina!”
When the powder hit the barrier, it shattered like glass and made a sound around the house like a mini tornado.
Overhead, dragons roared in the distance and his dragon let out an answering trill in his head.
