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I also needed them to take care of Henry and Sybil.
Your fight is not over, an immortal, queenly woman stood in front of me.
She had a willowy figure, cream skin, and golden hair with streaks like the sunset. Her blue eyes shifted colors just like mine, and she gazed at me with such tremendous love and tenderness.
Like lightning striking me, instantly I knew who she was.
“Mom?” I bolted up from the snow, and it hurt so much as I moved. Damn it, why did it hurt even in death?
“I can only meet you this once while you linger between life and death, my daughter,” she said, her voice sounding like music under the clearest sky. “I hoped I could watch over you, but I couldn’t, as such was my fate. But before my youngest sister killed me, I modified the curse she threw at you, so you could survive and finally find your true loves and be free. You’re going to see your grandfather, and he’ll tell you the truth he knows. It’s time. Daisy Danaenyth, my beloved child, you aren’t just the heir to the throne of the Dragon Realm. You’re also the rightful queen to Sihde, the Fae realm. You aunt usurped your place. Fight this, daughter. Fight for life. Call the realm’s magic to heal you, and it will. It must. All you need to do is ask.”
Her image flickered, fading.
“Mom, don’t go!” I choked out. “Please, don’t leave me. Stay. Stay with me.”
“I’m sorry, child. I’d give everything to be with you longer, but it’s not allowed.”
My mother dissipated in the mist of fog and snow.
“Mom!” I screamed.
I would not fade. I had to live, live to avenge my mother, live to take back my two realms and the six cities, and live to be with my mates.
I couldn’t leave them. I couldn’t abandon them.
And Elvey and Adrian had come back.
I reached out to the realm with my last flickering consciousness.The old Dragon King won’t return for you. I’m the last of the Danaenyth bloodline. Heal me. Heal your future Keeper, and I’ll guard you as my ancestors once watched and guarded you faithfully.
We’ve been waiting for you to ask,Daisy Danaenyth,echoed the multiple voices that seemed to come from the sky, from under the water, from everywhere.
Light sprang out from the soil beneath me, grasping me like ivy vines, crawling all over me. As the mesh of light sank into me, warmth coursed through me. The magic purged the poison in my blood, patched up my chest and back wounds, and knitted my tissues back together.
I heard my mates calling my name, their voices less panicked now. I still couldn’t open my eyes. My eyelids were too heavy, and my energy sapped, even with the aid of the realm’s magic.
“The land has healed her,” Elvey said, relief in his strained voice.
I heard Rai cry. It’d been hell for him thinking I was passing to the other side.
“We need to get out of here,” someone said.
Was the war over? The battle sounds seemed to have ceased. Only my mates’ begging for me to keep fighting for life filled my ears along with the howling wind.
We’d won.
“We need to go to the mountains.” It was Adrian’s worried voice.
A growl followed by louder growls.
“I don’t care that you’re my mate’s general!” Blaze snapped. “I’m carrying her.”
“She’ll ride in our arms, where she belongs,” Rai said.
They had to fight over me when I couldn’t even move? I’d never seen anyone else more possessive than my three dragon mates. In my weak state, I couldn’t even roll my eyes.
Thankfully, no one argued with them, but I believed that Adrian snarled before he backed off.
Vaguely, I felt that they carried me with strong arms and let me lean against a solid, warm chest that smelled like Rai and autumn and home.
