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“By Hecate, I can’t wait to see you die again.” Riley tossed the stone into the air.
I darted forward, marking its trajectory, Jake and Isaac surging forward too.
Shit! I’d hesitated. I should’ve acted quicker. Cooled this down.
Riley used his power, dragging the stone toward him in a pull, about to slam it into the ground. Time slowed, the world holding its breath.
At the same moment, the fae woman dragged me to Blue Orchard, depositing me in the snow once again.
Quiet sobbing resonated inside the cottage.
“What—”
“No time to speak, Sweetvoice,” she said hurriedly behind me. “If the stone breaks, everything within a twenty-mile radius dies.”
“Shit!” I cried, appearing back inside the vortex of fire.
Not hesitating this time, I shot Riley in the leg.
Chapter 26
RILEY
Pain seared my muscles, Tidal Pull snapping off. It slapped me with a grumpy ricochet, annoyed at the sudden shutdown. I flew back, slamming into the fiery wall. Catching alight, my clothes going up.
I screamed, flames licking at my face, singeing my hair, burning, burning, burning.
Hitting the ground, I rolled, screaming for mercy. My God! The agony! The damn agony! Unlike any pain I’d experienced, a war against every cell. Completely bypassing any feeble attempts of the Rubberskin to keep me safe.
What a way to go out!
I couldn’t think, only submit to the pain. Wait for the end. Wait for my body to give up, to hit the button for the escape pod out of this sphere of torment.
What’s happening?
What’s happening?
What’s happening?
Light.Thebright light.
Here comes the end…
Dammit!
But the light caressed me with so much care. Packed with love—the brotherly kind, removing the pain, applying mystical salve to my burns, knitting the burned flesh back together, repairing my hair. Healing the biting agony in my leg.
Shot.
I’ve been shot.
Tender, loving, brotherly sunlight put me back together again.
Isaac…
I was okay. I wasn’t meeting the final light. Thank Hecate! Moving on wasn’t part of my agenda right now.
Things became clearer, renewing moonlight flowing through me.
