Read Online Taken (Book Six) (Fated Saga Fantasy Series) by Rachel Humphrey - D'aigle - Free Book Online

shirt and show Meghan a scar over his heart.
    “What happened?” she asked.
    “He made me powerful. More powerful than anyone else, including himself.”
    “How? By stabbing you?”
    “Necessary. It was the only way to transfer the power.”
    “What did he stab you with? And I can’t believe you don’t think there’s something wrong with that!”
    “Sometimes it takes a little sacrifice to get what you want. I’m not afraid to get a little dirty.”
    “You are so ... unbelievable! Colby, a father should not stab something into his son just to make him more powerful! And look at yourself! This isn’t a gift! It’s a curse! You can’t even control it! And do you really believe someone like Fazendiin would really make you more powerful than himself?”
    “ I was angry at first, I’ll admit that. But he’s not what you think, Meghan. He’s not the pure evil you believe him to be.”
    “ He really has you brainwashed,” she said.
    “Not at all, he’s just given me a very broad view of the world. Can you say that?”
    “Maybe I haven’t learned everything there is to know about magic and the magical world, but I still think what he did to you is wrong. Look at what’s it’s doing to you. You’re stuck grasping onto memories in order to keep some kind of control on yourself. What happens when we leave memory lane?”
    The memory shifted again, but only slightly this time. They were still in the E-Valley, and Eidolon was ta unting them with the velvet bag and informing them that the man they had come searching for was dead.
    “I’m still pissed that I didn’t get that bag,” Colby noted.
    “I thought you were after Colin’s book?” Meghan asked haughtily.
    “Yes, but I planned on taking the little bag with me too. I don’t like to leave loose ends.”
    “Well whatever was in there is in the hands of Juliska Blackwell now. Ivan handed it over to her when we returned.”
    “My... our ... father gave it to her anyway. Only right it should have been returned to her.”
    “What do you mean?” she demanded.
    “See, here we go again. You don’t know anything .”
    She ignored him and asked, “Are you telling me that Juliska and our father were working together?”
    “Were. Are. ”
    Meghan’s head was too full, she felt like she was spinning out of control. Why should she be surprised? Juliska was evil, so why not be working with Fazendiin. Her father...
    “Did Juliska know about us?” asked Meghan.
    “Don’ t think so. Think Dad kept a pretty tight cork on me being around and you... we just found out about you quite recently.”
    Meghan didn’t say more but she knew how it had happened. When Fazendiin had shown up to threaten the Svoda he had smelled her blood. He discovered who she was right then.
    Colby looked longingly back toward the velvet bag, now currently being taken by Ivan Crane as the group battled the goblins.
    “What’s inside?” asked Meghan.
    “A weapon. A magnificent weapon.”
    “I don’t know as I’ve ever heard the words magnificent and weapon used in the same sentence. If it’s so great, why did Juliska let it out of her sight?”
    “Dad gave it to her because she needed a way to silence that Flummer girl! She’s a trouble maker if I ever saw one. So Juliska was given a weapon to make that happen. Once I learned that Eidolon had stolen it , I came up with the clever idea to pretend to tell him what it did if he helped me steal Colin’s book. Especially after I spied Colin wandering into the valley in search of the Flummer girl. I thought it would be a nice, easy way to get the book and also steal back the stone...” he stopped, biting his tongue.
    “Stone? That’s what’s in the bag, a stone?”
    “Not just any stone,” he continued. “One that can do wicked things, if in the right hands.”
    “Perfect, and Juliska has it now.”
    “She probably doesn’t even know what it is and what it’s truly capable of. From what I heard about her reaction from