Page 81 of Lunar Desires
“Never mind. Slip away, Riley. Pass over to?—”
My vision filled with moonlight, a warm wind whipping around me. An embrace, a hug. Heat filled my veins, bringing a powerful knowledge into my brain with it.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
“What is this?” Uncle Jonathon cried.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
This blood might be blessed, but it wasn’t to be shared with a stain like him.
He was unworthy of the Aurora name.
He had made his choices, murdered a family to gain power.
Nothing but scum.
Nothing but a crumbling relic.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
“The goddess rejects you!” My voice sent shockwaves out into the rain. My body jolted, pulses charging through the water.
Uncle Jonathon wailed, the killing coldness breaking, stinging my throat. An alien, toxic thing my body rejected.
I shot up, my head thrown back, mouth still wide. Rumbling in my stomach, quaking in my bones.
Holy. Crap.
A beam of moonlight erupted from me, shooting into the sky, ejecting my uncle’s malice.
My eyes leaked, my heart hiccuping. The toxic water left my body, evaporating into the sky. Within seconds, everything came back online, my energy restored.
Phew!
The beam stopped, giving me back control of my mouth. I righted my head, turning to see a beam of sunlight streaming into the sky from my brother’s mouth.
Hell to the yeah. Our blood didn’t stand for his crap.
Thank you, Hecate.
With an aftertaste like cough medicine mixed with beer on my tongue, I jumped to my feet, facing down four watery figures.
“Oh? Where did the fifth one go?” I mocked.
They all pointed at me as Isaac came up to my side. My body had warmed up, the cold rain not so offensive anymore. Those punches lighter, the icy caress more like tepid water.
Ha, ha, ha. We can all laugh, arsehole!
Where were Drake and Jake? I checked, seeing nothing.
Oh, God. What if they were dead? What?—
Stop it!
The two men appeared, dashing around the flooded car.
“Dickhead froze us,” Jake said.
