Total pages in book: 162
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
And if I’m right, it might serve my personal mission. “I believe Sarah took her family to one of the lesser celestial planes. Felix and Mia would be able to move on them. Sarah would need magic, but she would do anything to save them.”
“Arawn might be able to help. He knows doorways no one else dreams exist. If he doesn’t, he knows someone who does,” Nim affirms.
I know what I’m going to vote for. “So if we take Arawn’s invite, we don’t have to worry about getting around Myrddin’s guards and we might have a handy way to find my friends that means I don’t have to grovel to my mother-in-law. And we get to hang with the puppies.”
“I’m afraid Z’s right.” Danny sighs but looks resigned. “I don’t want a fight with Myrddin while the Nex Apparatus is on the Hell Plane.”
“I’ll handle my mother,” Dev assures me. “And I’ll get Nim back to her lake if it’s really her will to stay.”
“I can’t face him, and I will be a burden without my hands and heart. There is magic I can do with my mind, but Myrddin knew what he was doing. He cut me off from heart and body magic,” Nim explains.
Sasha stands. “Then we will be going to Wales. I will alert our allies and get the plane ready. We can be there tonight. I, for one, would like to get this mission started so we can rejoin our group in New Zealand. I’m leaving Chad and Lily in charge since the rest of my team is either coming with me or in Hell.” He chuckles. “It’s fun to say that.”
Kelsey and Trent aren’t exactly in Hell as we think of it. They’re in Gray Sloane’s territory on the Hell plane. I was told it’s called a midnight plane, and Fenrir will be powerful in that night kingdom. I hope so because my children Lee and Evan intend to either negotiate with or steal from Lucifer Morningstar.
All in all, it feels like I’m getting the easy end of this particular stick.
And I’m worried sick about my babies.
Danny stands, too. “We’re ready to go. Dev, did you pack enough Scotch?”
My Fae hubby sends my vampire hubby a smile. “Oh, Your Highness. We are packing light, but I assure you we can find something in the palace to get in trouble with.”
See, that makes me perk up. I love it when my guys go at it.
“I’m not letting Shy get anywhere close to this male,” Rhys announces. “Mother, I understand that you need to go. You need to find the Days. You need good relations with the Fae. But Shy and I are staying here. I will ensure our safe transfer to New Zealand.”
“Rhys…” Dev begins.
But Shy is standing up, pulling her hand from Rhys’s. “You are not my master, Rhys Donovan-Quinn.”
Rhys’s eyes narrow. “No. I am your commanding officer, however.”
“And I am yours,” Sasha says, his voice deep. “Or do you forget your place?”
“I think things have changed, General.” Rhys stands, his shoulders back like the good soldier he is. “I think our little army unit has shifted since my parents returned, and I know my powers have grown. I know Faery better than you.”
“You know it from your childhood and you fear it from your adolescence,” I say, trying to reason with him. “Rhys, we all need to go. Shy most of all because if Arawn knows something about her power that we don’t, we have to explore it.”
The hounds take up positions around Shy, and I feel the minute this could go poorly.
Rhys doesn’t seem to feel the shift. His hand slaps on the table. “She is my goddess, and I will not have her in danger.”
Not the way he should have gone.
I hear thunder in the distance.
“And this is how I know she is not your true goddess,” Dev says with a frown. “Not yet. If she was you wouldn’t be about to bring a storm down on our heads in the middle of a pocket world. Do we even have drainage? Are we about to flood?”
Shy looks my way, a frown on her face. “If I have sex with your son, will he be easier to control?”
There’s only one answer to that. Though it’s not a question I thought I would ever be asked. I should have known better. “Infinitely. And you’ll be the only woman he’s ever had so you won’t even have to compete with faulty memory.”
“Excellent,” she declares as she stands. “Then we’ll be ready to go when it’s time. Let us know, but you should probably knock, Your Highness.”
She takes Rhys’s hand and my stunned son follows her out. Along with two of the hounds. The third finds his way back to me and sits, obviously asking for a treat. I give the good boy some of Albert’s bacon.