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“What …?”
“How are you feeling?”
I looked up and found Ivy seated in an armchair across a coffee table. I stared at her, confused. “Where are we?” This wasn’t our house.
“While we were away, our father was found out. He had to move.”
What …
Then it came all rushing to me.
The mountain, the dragon, meeting Shane, getting lost with him, feeling things I didn’t remember but couldn’t deny.
And finally, Ivy trapping Shane inside the tunnel, and she and Roman talking about me as if I wasn’t there.
“What is going on?” I asked, my throat raw. “Why am I tied up?”
Ivy’s brows curled down. “He’s mad at me for bringing you here instead of going after the dragon, you know? Actually, he’s mad that I told him you were ready to go with me. This is all my fault.”
I frowned. “What are you talking about?”
“What do you remember?”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t play dumb with me, Raika. Tell me what you remember.”
I bit down hard before saying, “You mentioned a spell wearing off before putting me under.”
She nodded. “What else? Anything from before that? From before the spell?”
I shook my head. “So it is true? I haven’t had an injury that caused memory loss? It was a spell. Dot cast a spell to make me forget everything from before? But … why?”
My father appeared to my right. “Because I want all my children with me.” He walked closer. “You see, King Brikan’s demise was his children. He had sired so many powerful children, some of them got together and destroyed him.”
“There was also the prophecy,” Ivy said.
He waved her off. “That came from having so many children. I don’t have as many, but I thought that instead of ignoring my children only to have them turn against me one day, why not bring them together and make them my most trusted allies.” He halted beside Ivy, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Ivy wasn’t the first I found, but she was the only one who stuck around.”
I gulped. “What happened to the others?”
“Three refused to join me are now in the underworld, just not in the way I hoped for,” he said matter-of-factly. My gut twisted. “There are two more, but they are too young. When they get older, I’ll have them join us.”
I frowned. “You killed the ones who didn’t want to join you. What happened to me? You asked, I refused, but instead of killing me, you had Dot erase my memories? Why?”
He shrugged. “I liked your mother more than I usually like my partners, but more than that, you became such a great challenge because of that barrier. If Franc and Kali hadn’t kept you behind that wall for so long, I might have lost interest.” He sniffed the air. “But more than that, I can smell the darkfire inside you. It’s strong, almost as strong as Ivy’s, and she’s a full-blooded demon.”
My mind spun with so many thoughts.
So until two weeks ago, I hadn’t been here. I had not lived with them; I knew nothing about them. They had faked my death and stolen me from Shane, and told me only lies.
By the moon, Shane.
Now that I knew, now that Dot’s spell was wearing off, I could feel it—the mating bond stronger, drawing me to him.
“Did Dot mess with my mind, or did she do something with the mating bond?”
“I asked her to mute the bond as much as she could, so it wouldn’t trigger any of your memories,” my father said. “She said that was harder than erasing the memories.”
