Page 30 of Lunar Diamonds
I just want my bed…
Drake’s eyes flashed, boring into me. “We have to move.” He fished something from her coat pocket. A ring. My ring.
I grabbed my finger. “What the hell? Who… Why does she have that?”
He slipped it into his pocket. “Because she knows who you are.”
I blinked at him, too confused and afraid to speak. My throat closed up, my chest as tight as a snare drum.
“That is Rhianna Kingwood.”
My jaw hit the floor.
Rhianna Kingwood. As in the daughter of Marcus Kingwood, and granddaughter of Kane Kingwood. Two shadow witches at the top of the High Coven’s most wanted list. A twenty-million-pound bounty on their heads without there being any images of them—aside from photos of Marcus as a teenager.
I swallowed, my temples pulsing. “What… What does she want?”
“Marcus Kingwood wants you. Either dead or for something else I’m not sure.”
My poor brain, thoughts going wild like a ribbon caught in a cyclone. “I don’t…I don’t understand. Why would he want me?”
He cocked his head. “Because of who you are.”
“What do you mean?” I really should’ve stayed home.
He flung the driver’s door open, then quickly opened mine. “Come on.”
“But—”
“Move it!” he snapped.
I moved, sliding out of the door. He grabbed my arm as I stumbled, catapulting me back to that moment on Mystique Square where he’d been all dreamy with a hint of mystery.
Now he frightened me.
Kind of.
I shook him off me. “What happens now?”
“We get out of here. Follow me.”
I glanced back at the car. Rhianna Kingwood. What the actual hell?
“Is it safe to leave her alive?” I asked, hurrying after him along the dark country road.
Wow. Talk about power walk.
“No. But I can’t kill her. And neither can you. At least for now.” He pulled out his phone. I heard the dialing tone.
My bangle light still flashed green, ready to send him tripping into a ditch.
“I have Riley Aurora,” he said into his phone. “Never mind that now. I trust you can now track this device. Good. Pick us up as soon as possible. We’ll be moving, so don’t lose us.”
Riley Aurora? What? No. My name was Riley Croft. Aurora… Aurora was…
What the hell?
Moon. Sun. Star.
