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Though she wondered because Brett had said her kind had taken them away. So who had if this girl hadn’t?
    “Oh, Deveron’s taken them home with him.”
    “Deveron,” Alicia whispered. She’d been so annoyed with him because he wouldn’t resolve the matter of Micala and his interest in Cassie. But Deveron had come for her. Although if the roles had been reversed and she’d learned he was in trouble, she would have been there to rescue him.
    “Queen Irenis will have a wonderful time with them,” Ena said.
    Mr. Iverson growled. “What’s one fae girl going to do against two of us?”
    That’s when Alicia saw another set of iron manacles hanging off his belt around his back. He seized hold of them, then said to Brett, “Grab her.”
    If they got the manacles on her, even on a wrist or one ankle, Ena couldn’t fae travel.
    Ena tilted her head to the side and took the final step onto the concrete floor. Alicia was sweating like crazy. How could the girl be so calm? So collected? Alicia wanted to scream at her to do something. Leave. Get help!
    “I don’t think so.” The Goth girl stretched her arms out to her sides, closed her eyes and looked toward the ceiling as if calling on some tremendous power.
    When she looked at Alicia again, Alicia expected Ena’s eyes to be ringed with gold, but her pale green eyes had changed to shimmering emerald beacons.
    The man shouted, “Now!” He was terrified, shaking, his heart pounding. He knew she was going to do something really bad.
    Alicia’s heart was drumming, the blood rushing in her ears, afraid for the girl and afraid for the guys.
    Brett and the man bolted for Ena. The Goth girl’s black clothes shifted into shimmering olive green scales, and her outstretched arms were suddenly draped in giant leathery wings. Her impish face grew long and bony. Her whole appearance? One pissed-off dragon.
    Dragon fae. Ohmigod, she was a dragon shifter. Alicia had read about them in some of the ancient journals—that all her people had been actual dragon shifters at one time. She’d seen the sketches of them flying high against a cloudy sky, and she’d thought how much she’d wished she could have shifted like that.
    Seeing Ena as one was terrifying, even though Alicia kept telling herself the girl was a dragon fae like her. That she had come to rescue her. That she hadn’t planned to… fire ! She said her name meant fire. That was the message .
    Sucking in a breath, Alicia was certain this was going to get really bad, really fast.
    Letting out a strangled cry, Iverson stopped dead in his tracks, no longer able to clamp a manacle on the girl’s arm because it was now a wing fully stretched out. He glanced at her leg, leathery, bony, still the right size for the manacle.
    Brett had come to a halt and backed away. Ena was standing directly in front of the stairs. No way for either of the guys to escape.
    The old man wasn’t giving up. He dove for her leg. She let out a breath of red hot flame and incinerated him, melting the manacles into gray goo and the man into gray ash that crumbled onto the gray concrete floor. Her flames scorched the wall behind him, and Alicia was glad she hadn’t been in the path of the fire though the intense heat warmed her as if the temperature had risen to south Texas summer hot in seconds. Ena whipped around to face the teen.
    He was shaking so hard, twisting his head back and forth, unable to say the word, “No.” Then incapable of standing any longer, he fell to his knees, his face as white as new fallen snow, his pupils dilated so they were now all black.
    Ena flapped her wings, settled them close to her body, and studied the teen.
    Alicia quickly said, “He might be one of us.” She thought he might be salvageable, and she believed he hadn’t wanted to kill her so she wanted to offer him a reprieve.
    The dragon looked at her, and for an instant, Alicia worried Ena’s human…or fae part of her brain…might disappear when the dragon