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Oh.Flames fanned my skin, and that spot between my legs pulsed with desire. Biting my bottom lip, I batted my lashes.What will you do to me in your bedchamber?
Eyes wickedly gleaming, he dug his fingers into my thighs.So many naughty things.
My mouth fell open, and for a moment, there was only Blaze and I, two lovers floating through the heavens, though I knew the real heaven would be found in his bed.
“Look there!” Nikkos called to us as he nodded to something in the distance. The clouds below parted just enough to reveal what looked like the tip of an arrow shooting up through the thick smoke. “It’s a turret!”
Blaze let out a holler. “Abyssus!”
I gasped. “You live in a castle?”
He slanted a grin. “A small one.”
I snorted at that. Was there such a thing as a small castle? I only hoped it wasn’t big enough that the girls would get lost.
Nikkos hooted and hollered. “We’re home!”
“Tarts, tarts, tarts!” the girls squealed, the echoes of their voices sounding strangely hollow.
And what happened next caught me by such surprise, I had no time to react. One moment, Nikkos and the girls were smiling and laughing while soaring through the sky. The next, a giant net struck them, their screams instantly muted as they were sucked back through the clouds.
“Nooo!” Panic coursed through my veins and shattered my heart.
“Hold on!”
My stomach hit my throat when Blaze dove upside down, falling through the sky like an arrow. We broke through the clouds, chasing after an empty net. Where had they gone? For the briefest of moments, all time stopped as we spiraled through the air, the smoke clearing enough to reveal dozens of giant hands that tried to snatch us from the sky.
Blaze pulled back with a curse, flying just out of reach of their grimy fingers and big, blinking eyes.
Holy elements! Trolls. A battle cry rang out, a line of fire flashed in the distance, and an army of winged mages soared toward us.
I frantically searched the ground for any sign of Nikkos and the girls. Where were they? I prayed Aurora had teleported them out of danger, but I wouldn’t know for sure until I subdued the trolls. If I could subdue them. But, no, I had no choice. If not, these giants would crush us.
Scorching magic pulsed through my veins. I sucked in a breath and released my rage. “All trolls, on your knees! Do not move!” I was barely aware of my voice echoing around us like the boom of rolling thunder.
The giants fell down, and the stagnant air shook as if a monstrous tremor had split open the earth.
Blaze quickly descended, stumbling when he hit the ground. His wings caught us in time, and he gently set me down. I looked behind us at the empty net sprawled out on the rocky incline that had tripped him. The giants were still on their knees, and they were covering their ears, their monstrous faces scrunched in pain as if the sound of my voice had injured them. There were so many of them, and they stunk like week-old fish guts. One in particular had a monstrous, misshapen head, made even uglier by the way his features crossed as he covered his ears and made a strange bleating sound like a dying cow.
“Nikkos! Ember! Aurora!” I cried out, spinning a quick circle, panic and disbelief projecting bile into my throat when I saw nothing but giant creatures and rows of flattened trees. Nikkos!I called to him through thought, but he didn’t answer.
Draevyn and an army of at least twenty fire mages landed beside us.
The stricken look in Draevyn’s eyes, which were still slightly bruised, caught me off guard. He shook a fist at the closest giant. “Where are they?”
The giant blinked down at him like a cat studying a bug.
I looked at the giant. He held an empty net that looked similar to the one they’d thrown at Nikkos. “You there,” I commanded, my siren voice flowing out of me like a raging river. “Tell me what happened to the Ravini and children you shot down.”
“Gorin don’t know.” He frowned down at me while keeping his hands over his ears. “They gone.”
My heart beat so loudly in my ears, I could scarcely hear myself think. They disappeared. Aurora took them to safety. I didn’t know if I wanted to laugh or cry.
I swallowed back my fear while glaring up at the giant. “Is that your name? Gorin?”
He nodded. “Da.”
“Gorin,” I pressed, “did you see them disappear?”
