Page 35 of Must Love Dragons
“You called in reinforcements?”Venice asked with a grin.
“I didn’t want to risk Kinsley’s safety, and I think we could use all the firepower we can get.”
“I’ll keep Brody updated on our location,” Delaney said.“He’ll come to help us fight.”
“That’s awesome,” Zay said.The sun was setting, but it wouldn’t be fully dark for a while longer.
“I need her scrying mirror,” Kinsley said.
“For what?”Venice asked.
“To find her.I’m not the best at scrying but it’s Kinsley’s mirror so that should help me cast the spell to get her location.”
She hurried into the house and Zay stepped out so he could watch for his clan in the distance.
He heard the dragons roaring again and after scanning the sky, he saw them.
Ronan was the largest of the three, with dark green scales.Sierra had rust-colored scales, and Lyra, like others in their family, had onyx scales.
He’d never been so happy to see his clan as he was right now.
He waved at them and hoped they’d be able to find a place to land safely, grateful that Kinsley’s home, and the others along the street, had large yards.
One by one, his clan members landed and shifted to make room for the others.Lyra was first, grabbing a tunic from her satchel and pulling it over her head to cover herself.Then she ran to him and gave him a hug while Sierra and then Ronan shifted.
“Zay!What’s going on?You have a mate?And she was taken?Who are these people?”Lyra asked the questions rapidly, her eyes glittering with worry and curiosity.
“I do,” he said.As Sierra and Ronan joined him, he introduced them to Venice and told them about Delaney who was in the house getting something to conjure a spell to find Kinsley, and hopefully Rorik.He told his clan all that had happened while they waited for Delaney to find the scrying mirror.He felt like a fool for keeping so much from his clan, especially when he’d finally come to his senses and realized that Kinsley was the right female for him and that magical or not, she was his.
His clan stared at him in slack-jawed surprise.
Delaney walked out of the house and stopped short.“Oh hi!I’m Delaney.Kinsley’s my best friend and I’m going to locate her with this mirror.I hope that your uncle is with her too, but if not I’m pretty sure that she and I together can locate him.”
“Or maybe we can get one of those asshole warlocks to tell us where he is,” Venice said, cracking his knuckles.
“I like the way you think,” Ronan said with a nod.
Kinsley set up the mirror on the grass and knelt in front of it.Zay moved to watch but Lyra stopped him.
“This is magic, Zay,” she said with a low voice.“Magical people killed most of our clan members including our parents.Are you… are you sure about this?”
He looked at her, seeing the genuine worry.“Yes, I am.Kinsley is my truemate.I’ve seen her use her magic.Hell, she healed me when one of the warlocks attacked me.What good magic users do is far, far different than what the dark magic warlocks are doing.They don’t want to hurt; they want to help.And I trust Kinsley with my life.Hell, she sacrificed herself to keep me safe from the warlocks.”
Lyra nodded.“Okay.I trust you and you trust her, so I’m good.I just wanted to be sure.I love you, and you and Rorik are the last family I’ve got left.I don’t know what I’d do if I lost you both.”
“I feel the same way.But Kinsley is your family now too, and she thinks of Delaney and her mate Brody, and their friend Venice as family, so our family isn’t small anymore.”
“That’s a nice way to think of it.”She clapped her hands together.“Okay, so how are we going to save my new sister and our uncle?”
“I’m searching for Kinsley now,” Delaney said.
She was leaning over the large mirror that had an ornate, gilded frame.At first, he didn’t see anything in the mirror except the starry sky above and the illumination from the street and porch lights.
But then it hazed over like a smoky wave before clearing and showing a flickering, dull image.
The image sharpened and showed Kinsley, restrained against a pillar, head down and unmoving.
He stared at the image, seeing first the rise and fall of her chest which ensured she was alive.But then he realized he’d seen a pillar just like that.
