Page 133 of Stone Seduction
The call for aid clanged, a frantic bell in a lonely tower. Someone trapped calling for help, for me to mark them. Each dong hit my core, the face of Luke fading away.
Wrong face.
Wrong man.
A new face appeared. Similar to Luke’s, but thinner. A man with blond hair and pale blue eyes.
The bell rang, every chime a revelation.
Finn Garland. This was Finn Garland. With his face came a flood of understanding, dark whispers speaking of a wrong marking. Corrupted. Stolen.
My heart leaped into my throat, the truth striking like a missile.
“No…”
Finn watched me, a vacant expression, nothing more than a projected image. My real mark, his brother having stolen his destiny.
Screaming sirens brought me back to the lighthouse. To Eden shaking me and elevated voices, a deadly energy crackling around me.
People called Luke’s name.
People warned of a rising sea.
I grabbed my sister, steadying myself against my one true rock in this world. “Sis…”
Her haunted eyes were wide, darting between me and the sky. “Luke’s summoned a tsunami.”
My stomach dropped. “What?”
No. He wouldn’t.
Dane appeared, ordering Tom to jump on his back. Knights raced past, chaos rising.
Stolen.
Finn is my mark.
I turned my head, my connection to Luke a toxic bond now. It dragged rusty nails across my soul.
“Luke…”I spoke through the amulet.
Unbearable sorrow answered me. It drowned him, leaving behind the tiniest flicker of his essence.
He knew what he’d done.
My boyfriend hovered in the sky, his body wreathed in electric blue light. Arms outstretched, a wall of water building beneath him.
Too big for this town to withstand. It’d wipe it off the map.
“Luke… Don’t…”
I suffered my own sorrow, the worst I’d ever endured. Hollowing me out, the last pieces of me clinging to flimsy denial.
This wasn’t happening.
This wasn’t happening.
But the deadly weapon I’d fallen in love with unleashed the wave.
