Her hand trembled as she took it and slipped it on. “I won’t break that trust.”
“I know.” I let out another slow breath. “The Pit, the traitors there . . . Keeda was in on it.”
Bella gasped, a hand going to her mouth. Slowly she dropped it. “Is she alive?”
I sat on the edge of the bed, finally allowing myself to feel the full weight of what happened. “Not really. I . . . burned her out.” In halting words, I explained what had happened, and what Spirit had done to our younger sister. Bella reached out and wrapped her arms around me and I let her, lowering my head to her shoulder.
“I should have known better.” A sob ripped out of me. The horror of what I’d done wouldn’t leave me. I wasn’t sure I could ever close my eyes again and not see the vacant stare of my little sister looking back at me.
Bella held me tight. “Would you have died if you’d not used Spirit?”
I mulled the question over rehashing the fight in my mind and seeing once more that there had been no other way. Peta would have been too late to help me and there was no other weapon I’d had that could have stopped Keeda from killing me. “Yes, I would have died. But I could have held back. I should have held back.”
“This is not your fault, Lark. You can’t be expected to protect yourself and others, and not hurt those who attack you, even if they are your siblings. And you are still learning how to use Spirit. This was an accident.” She let me go. We sat in silence for a moment, a silence that I dreaded the breaking of.
“I know you are worried about Keeda, but there is a larger problem. Father is still missing,” she said. “We can’t find him anywhere. We’re thinking . . . about using a Tracker to find him.”
I blinked several times. “We?”
She blushed. “Okay, I was thinking of using a Tracker to find him. Your friend, Griffin, suggested it and I think he is right.”
“That’s breaking rules, Bella. Rules the mother goddess put in place for a reason. We aren’t supposed to even contact those in the supernatural world, never mind seek them out.” I stared at my sister, but she was right. We had to find Father, no matter what happened.
I stood. “That’s what you’re asking me, isn’t it? To find a Tracker and use them to find Father? To break the rules.”
She sat up straighter, a strange sort of royalty coming over her. “Yes, Ender Larkspur. I am asking you to do whatever you have to do to save our king. Save him, even at the expense of your own soul and the possibility of banishment. Will you do it?”
I looked into her gray eyes, saw the love for our father, and the love for me as her sister.
I went to one knee and bowed my head. “It will be done.”
PETA
(An Elemental Series Novella)
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THE RYLEE ADAMSON NOVELS
Priceless (Book 1)
Immune (Book 2)
Raising Innocence (Book 3)
Shadowed Threads (Book 4)
Blind Salvage (Book 5)
Tracker (Book 6)
Veiled Threat (Book 7)
Wounded (Book 8)
Rising Darkness (Book 9)
Blood of the Lost (Book 10)
Alex (A Short Story)
Tracking Magic (A Novella 0.25)
Elementally Priceless (A Novella 0.5)
Guardian (A Novella 6.5)
Stitched (A Novella 8.5)
THE ELEMENTAL SERIES
Recurve (Book 1)
Breakwater (Book 2)
Firestorm (Book 3)
Windburn (Book 4)
THE BLOOD BORNE SERIES
Recombinant (Book 1)
THE NEVERMORE TRILOGY
The Nevermore Trilogy
Sundered (Book 1)
Bound (Book 2)
Dauntless (Book 3)
A CELTIC LEGACY
A Celtic Legacy Trilogy
Dark Waters (Book 1)
Dark Isle (Book 2)
Dark Fae (Book 3)
THE RISK SERIES (Written as S.J. Mayer)
High Risk Love (The Risk Series, Book 1)
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCES (Written as S.J. Mayer)
Of The Heart
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Firestorm (The Elemental Series, Book 3)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FIRESTORM COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
PRAISE FOR THE ELEMENTAL SERIES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CH
APTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
PETA
COMING SOON
NEWSLETTER
ALSO BY SHANNON MAYER
AUTHORS NOTE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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