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Now she was alone, wandering through what amounted to be the world’s worst jungle, and she was alone.
She’d thought of this as a forest when she’d first began her journey, but considering just how much undergrowth there was, she was certain now that “jungle” was a better term. Not that it mattered. No matter what the place was that she was climbing through, it sucked.
All of it sucked.
She sucked, too, Tabitha knew.
She shouldn’t have gotten drawn into the handsome man.
Fucking dragons.
As soon as she’d seen him fly off, she’d known their journey together was over. Whatever. She didn’t care. She didn’t need him.
She was already most of the way through the dense shrubbery of the island. That’s how she would refer to the jungle-forest-swamp she’d been trekking through: shitty shrubbery. There were trees and bushes and fallen logs and all sorts of crap to climb over, but she didn’t care.
She’d gotten dressed in her own clothes, and she’d slipped on the shoes Felix had given her. It didn’t matter that they were a little too big, or that she could imagine him having worn these in the past. Nope. She wasn’t about to let a little thing like that bother her.
Instead, she was just going to keep going.
She’d been feeling her powers coming back to her. Despite the fact that she’d basically drained them dry, she was beginning to realize that something on the island was recharging her.
She was almost certain it was Felix.
There was a legend among the mages about this sort of thing. It was a legend that people didn’t really talk about, but Tabitha had always been both sneaky and nosy, and she’d managed to overhear it on multiple occasions.
The rumor was that if you had sex with your one true mate, they would recharge your magical powers, no matter what kind of creature they might be.
So if a wizard and a non-magical human had sex, the wizard could get a recharge from that.
If a mage had sex with, say, a dragon who happened to be their fated mate, the same thing could happen.
That was assuming Felix was her mate.
Honestly, she wasn’t even sure if she believed in such things.
Tabitha kept moving. She thought she saw him flying over the trees, and she dropped to her belly almost instantly. She didn’t really want him to find her.
There wasn’t much of a reason for it except that she felt used and betrayed.
He’d fucked her, and then he’d left.
He’d shifted before he’d even told her that he was a dragon, and then he’d left.
She’d been with enough people – magical and nonmagical – to know that if you were going to shift into a paranormal creature, it was simply good manners to give the other person a heads-up.
It at least would have been appreciated, but no.
He couldn’t do that for her.
Well, fuck him.
“I already did,” she muttered, kicking a stone.
Tabitha kept walking, pissed off and irritated with the sudden turn of events. She pushed through some vines that were blocking her path. It was getting darker as she approached the castle, and the trees seemed to be closer together.
Maybe the witch did it on purpose.
Felix had casually mentioned Ursula’s affinity for spells, and Tabitha wouldn’t be surprised if there was something super messed up at play here. Maybe, for example, Ursula had cast a spell over the forest so that everything grew really thick, or maybe she’d done something to screw with how the plants grew.
