Free EarthBorn (The Elemental Born Book 1) by E.M Reders

but while I could plainly see her, Grace’s concealment spell was still in place. "What the hell?" she gasped, looking up in question.
    "We decided to take extra steps to cover her identity from the other groups,” Grace informed her before whispering the words to remove her spell. It felt like a blast of wind hit me in the face. I kept my head down, the hood still hiding me from Ethan’s view. "What are you doing here, Dyanna? I told you that no one else from the coven was to be here."
    "I know, Gran, but she's my friend and she’s terrified. You knew she didn't want to do this, now look at her. Come on, don't cry,” she uttered, pulling my hood back and pressing a kiss to my head. "It's not all bad. I mean, have you seen him? He’s hot." Only Dyanna would say something like that at a time like this.
    "It couldn't be any worse," I choked, peeking up from under my hair at Ethan’s puzzled face.
    "Kaia?" he gasped. He’d known it was me, he would have been able to sense it the moment he came near, but I guess the removal of my hood had confirmed it for him.
    "You know him?” Dyanna asked, looking back and forth between us before the things I had told her in the past seemed to click into place. "Oh! Now I understand."
    "Well, I don't,” boomed Alpha Edwards, storming towards us. Quickly following him was another member of his pack. By the power that radiated from him, I would have to say he was the pack Beta. "Can someone please explain what is going on here? Why is this girl crying in anguish over being my son's mate? And why has she performed the ritual anyway when it is obvious that she is far too young?"
    "And that is the reason for the changes we made tonight. There is an awful lot to tell you, but not here." Kneeling beside me, brushing the hair from my eyes, Grace said, “We need to move, Kaia. Can you stand?" Slowly, with the help of Dyanna, I got to my feet, a little weak from the force of the spell. "Good. We have a safehouse set up a few miles away. There is where we will discuss what has happened tonight. I can take us there now unless you would prefer to run in your wild forms?" she asked the Alpha.
    "You may take us. I want answers."
    "Very well. If you would just take my arm, I will transport us there immediately. Dyanna, can you bring Kaia and her chosen, please?” And then with nothing more than a shimmer and a wave of power rolling through the air, they were gone.
    “Come on, sweetheart, let's get out of here.” She wrapped her arm around my waist then grabbing Ethan roughly by the arm. Quickly looking around the place, she scanned the woods, her eyes a little worried.
    “What’s the matter?”
    “Nothing,” she said, a smile on her face but it was forced. Something had spooked her.
    Focusing her own power, her arm pulling me tighter against her for just a moment, Dyanna moved us from the Circle to the safehouse. I was used to travelling this way. I could never do it myself because of how easy it was to track, but I had travelled this way with Grace and Dyanna numerous times over the years. Unfortunately, being as weak as I was from the ritual, my legs gave way the second we arrived.
    Looking up from my fallen position, I saw the old rundown cottage the coven used in times of need, though I don’t think it had been this run down the last time I had been here. It had only been a passing visit to drop off some clean towels and bedding when one of the coven needed a place to stay after losing her home to fire. I was feeling a little embarrassed about losing my footing, but by the sound of it, I wasn’t the only one that hit the ground.
    “I thought you guys always landed on your feet,” Dyanna joked, laughing as Ethan picked himself up from the floor quickly.
    “That's cats, and you could have warned me you were going to do that.”
    “No, I couldn't. Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen you fall on your ass.”
    A growl erupted from his chest.
    “Dyanna, leave the boy alone and get Kaia in