Page 70 of Psycho Gods

Arabella was the only one unaffected; she squirmed against my chest and stared up at me, her wide navy eyes misted with shock. She no longer radiated cold, and her presence felt small in my arms.

I studied every curve and plane of her face.

The jagged scar beneath her eye and the dark circles from exhaustion enhanced the otherworldly nature of her beauty.

She was the only person in all the realms who was completely unaffected by my voice. While I didn’t enthrall Corvus and Scorpius, my voice still triggered my mates’ powers.

Arabella seemed completely unaffected.

She was perfect—she was also gravely injured.

Unable to help myself, I leaned forward and pressed another kiss to her forehead. “I will never leave your side, ever again,” I promised huskily.

Her skin was unnaturally cold beneath my lips.

“I don’t forgive you,” she breathed out with a harsh rattle.

Snow gathered in the curls that stuck out around her head in a fluffy halo.

I held her tighter against my chest and whispered, “I know, sweetheart. You don’t have to.”

She winced but pressed her face into my shoulder. Her hand splayed across my chest, and her fingers curled.

Bells tinkled, and snow drifted.

No one else existed in all the realms but the two of us.

Seconds expanded. The ground beneath my boots metaphysically shook as an onslaught of emotions battered me.

Something tender spread between us.

It was the same feeling I had when I’d realized what her name meant.

The science behind soulmates was nebulous because the unique composition of an individual’s soul changed how the bond interacted.

I pressed a soft kiss to her forehead and held her close.

Startling clarity gripped me. It wasn’t a coincidence that she was the only person I could speak to freely.

It was fate.

We were destined.

I clutched her against my chest as snow kissed our cheeks and steam rose around our feet.

Fate had brought us together.

The moment broke as the men stalked toward us as the compulsion ended.

“I have an RJE,” Corvus said as he answered my original question.

A device whirled.

All four of them lunged toward Arabella at once.

Crack.

I staggered but held both of us upright as I fought off the dizziness of traveling through space.

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