“Come, lass,” Quinn said. “I’ll walk you.”
“No need,” said a woman after she opened Britt’s door and ducked her head inside.
She had the hood of her raincoat pulled up, but strands of her black hair poked out and stuck to her face. The woman looked to the backseat and Quinn before her gaze moved to Aiden, and then finally to Britt.
“I’m Elena. Constantine and Charon sent me to bring you to Dreagan, Britt.”
Aiden leaned forward before Britt could get out and asked, “Are you sure you can get her to the mansion?”
Elena’s deep green eyes softened. “We were able to get out. And my husband isn’t far. He’s watching as we speak. If there’s trouble, he’ll help. Britt will be in good hands. I promise.”
“Be careful,” Britt told him before she got out of the car and rushed to the SUV behind them.
Elena was quick to follow Britt, and Galen slid into the front seat.
“She’s in good hands,” Quinn said.
Aiden sighed, uncertainty weighing heavily upon him. “Really? Who are these people?”
“Dragons,” Galen said.
Aiden’s head jerked toward Galen before he turned in his seat to look at his father. “What?”
Quinn nodded. “They’re dragons. I doona know the whole story. I’m sure we’ll find out once we’re there.”
“If we can get past the selmyr, you mean,” Aiden said.
Galen grinned. “Doona forget Jason is trailing us. It should be interesting.”
That’s when it occurred to Aiden. “We’re bait. We’re fucking bait!”
“Aye,” Quinn said with a wry smile. “Someone has to lead Wallace to Dreagan. Who better than the people he’s chasing?”
“And the selmyr?”
Galen rubbed his hands together. “I’m ready for those bastards. After what they did to Arran, I want some payback.”
Aiden shook his head at his father and Galen and faced front again. Their eagerness for battle had grown the closer they got to the meeting spot to drop off Britt.
Now that Britt was gone, Aiden was surprised the two Warriors hadn’t jumped out of the vehicle to ambush Wallace. But it was always this way with Warriors before a battle. They didn’t see it. It was part of who they were, part of the god inside them.
But Aiden saw it. It used to frighten him, but now he knew it was their way of preparing. He started the car and put it in drive before he pulled out onto the road, the wipers going as fast as they could and still not clearing the windshield of rain.
“How far until we’re on Dreagan land?” he asked.
Galen laughed. “Lad, we’ve been on it for over an hour.”
“One of these days I want to stop being treated as a child,” he stated, and drove over the narrow bridge.
Quinn leaned forward and put his hand on Aiden’s shoulder. “We thought it best no’ to scare Britt more than we had to.”
“You’re right.” Aiden slowed to take a narrow curve. “Where do I go now?”
“You need to drive slow. Verra slow.”
Galen shifted in his seat, his gaze riveted on the side mirror on the car. “We need to give Wallace time to catch us.”
“I’m going to kill them. Slowly. Painfully.”
Aisley listened as Jason repeated his litany for the hundredth time since finding Mindy with her heart yanked from her chest.
There was only one creature who could have done such a thing. A Warrior. Aisley hated to admit she was overjoyed that Mindy was no longer around. Still, Aisley wouldn’t wish that kind of death on anyone.
Aisley licked her lips and looked out the car window while trying to ignore the fact her cousin had the body of his dead lover in the backseat with him.
How close had Aisley come to dying? Why had it been Mindy and not her? Was it just by chance that the Warrior hadn’t chosen her?
Those thoughts had gone round and round in her mind for the last hour as they drove north, following whatever kind of trail Jason had found of Aiden and Britt.
The Warrior who had killed Mindy could’ve slain the rest of them. Why didn’t he? Was he just toying with them?
“It had to have been Larena,” Jason said. “She used her power to turn invisible and sneak up on Mindy. That’s the only way Mindy would’ve been taken unawares.”
“Mindy was always overconfident,” Aisley said. “You don’t know what happened.”
Jason’s hand slammed down on Aisley’s seat from behind. “I know it was a Warrior. That’s all I need to know.”
Dale glanced at her before he took a sharp corner and stopped the car as they waited for another vehicle to cross the narrow bridge. Once the other car was clear, Dale put his foot on the accelerator.