In my head, the skinny Dragon worked to free Rafael from his chains.
My pulse pounded, and talons sprouted from my fingertips.Hurry the fuck up!
Not helpful,Riley came back at me.We are working as fast as we can. Are the kids gone?
Almost.The exchange had distracted me from the Watcher opening the gate. When I finally glanced that way, I saw the meadow with the fucking academy building in the background.
Rafael’s twin sister led the Centaur children through the pulsing gate. Tyrez was already through, in case Isobel got wind of what we’d done and made an attempt to reclaim what she so clearly considered hers.
Linked to the Dreambitch, I was only half aware of them leaving.
And then, it all went to fucking pieces when Rafael sensed the Isobitch coming their way.
My human didn’t stand a chance. The Deranger surged within me, and brought my beast with it. I was halfway to my Dragon when a hand folded over my writhing forearm. I glared down into the Watcher’s vivid-blue eyes.
“What is it?” she asked.
“Isobel’s coming.” I snarled the words as my wings arched over us.
The last Centaur brat had stepped through the gate and vanished. I had no intention of following them.
The assassin sprouted his own wings in response to me embracing my beast. His deep indigo eyes assessed my every move.
He was worried aboutme. I ignored him. I was worried about the Dreambitch.MyDreambitch.
No.Dammit. Not mine.
Mine, insisted both my beast and my monster.
Oblivious to the war being waged within, Cara pushed at me. “Riley will get them out, Havoc.” Her voice was intense. “There is nothing you can do.”
“I can kill.” The words were barely decipherable.
“And be killed. Even you cannot go up against so many of Brock’s best pinions and survive. You know it.” She pulsed calming energy through to me, and I growled at her. “Riley will get them out. She will bring them to the meadow. We have to meet her there.”
Fang’s little fuzzy feet tickled at me. I had no idea whether she wanted me to go after the Dreambitch, or go with Cara. The Deranger didn’t bloody care, it was all for throwing itself at anything with fangs and claws. And my nutzoid Dragon just wanted to save the fucking Jumper, and then mate her. Again.
The Watcherbitch injected her vivid-blue energy into this swirling mess, and when I next blinked, I was standing in front of the gate.
“This is the only way, Havoc,” she said.
Only because my human knew it to be the truth, did I follow her through.
16
Riley
As I reached deep inside for my Jumper power, my first crazy, irrational thought when Isobel entered the room was that she was shorter than I expected.
She might even have been attractive, if it hadn’t been for the eyes blazing straight at us. They were the color of fresh blood.
She wasn’t alone. An enormous guy with bronze scales was with her. He blinked as though having issues seeing us, but then he lifted his head and sniffed. “Rafael’s here. But so is the Jumper, isn’t she? He wasright.”
Fucking hell.Havoc, clear as a bell in my head.
“Dammit,” Maddy whispered.
“Got it,” Lucas said, and I grabbed his hand.
