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“That’s what I thought. You can’t shift. That means you die, so the universe will give Ambrose a new mate. Kill her,” Serenity says to her vampire friends.
They move before she’s even finished speaking, and at once, I feel three sets of fangs sink into my neck and wrists.
This is how I die.
Chapter 40
Ambrose
“Has she shifted yet?” Isolde asks from where she sits across the desk in my office.
Emeric is sitting next to her, his face dropping into a snarl at her question.
“What?” She shrugs. “I have to ask. That was why you wanted her initiated into the Moonlight wolves, after all.”
“It’s only been a few hours. Give her some time,” Emeric says.
Isolde ignores him, raising her fair-colored eyebrow as she looks at me, waiting for my answer.
“No, she hasn’t,” I answer.
She purses her lips as she leans back in her chair and folds her hands together in her lap. “I see.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean? She still has a week; that’s plenty of time,” Emeric comes to Lumi’s defense.
But I study Isolde. There’s something she’s not telling me.
“What is it?” I ask her.
She looks up at me. “You know I’ve put all of my coven’s hopes on you breaking the curse.”
“I’m aware,” I say in a low voice, unsure of where she’s going with this. But I don’t like to be threatened.
“Then you should know what will happen if you fail—”
“I won’t fail. Lumi is the one—the one the prophecy states will break the curse. She’s my mate—”
“And she can’t shift,” Isolde says with tired eyes.
“It doesn’t matter if she can shift. She’s strong.”
“Not strong enough to survive if she can’t shift.”
Isolde’s words stop my heart.
“How do you know? How do you know she won’t survive if she can’t shift?”
“Our coven’s seer has seen it. If she doesn’t learn to shift, she’ll die. And our hope of the curse breaking this month will die with it.”
My throat closes up, and there is heaviness pressing down on my chest. “How do I help her?”
“Well, I don’t think spending what little time you have left fucking her is going to help,” she snarls.
I grind my teeth together and growl, making it clear what I will do if she continues to speak about my relationship with Lumi.
But Isolde has known me for too long a time to back down. “I could use my magic to free her wolf. But then, I’d always have control of when and how she shifts. She’d lose that power forever.”
“No.”
