Page 51 of His Impossible Elf Mate
“There,” she said, lifting a long finger and pointing to my heart. “You love one of my wolves in a way so deep and pure nothing could part you.”
“It’s true. I would fade without Axel. I’d do anything to give him what he wants.”
“Anything?” Her red lips twisted into a smile. She seemed to read my soul. “You really would. Tell me, Teárlach, would you like Axel to become an omega?”
“More than anything. I want him to have the baby he longs for.” She glided closer. So near to me I wouldhave felt her breath if she was human. The Luna waited for me to finish my thought.
“I only wish I could be the one to give him a child. Our child. It’s impossible.”
“Teárlach, with love, nothing is impossible.”
Then the dream faded to black. The Luna, if she had truly been there, was gone.
A Plea
Axel
When T had stumbled home, shouts of alarm following him, I hadn’t been overly concerned. Yes, he looked drained beyond anything I’d seen in him, but he had said something about healing. That was enough of an explanation for me. I’d seen healers and witches do a lot of magic and the aftereffects. I knew the score.
So, instead of freaking out, I got him comfortable in our bed and called my brother, hoping Blake knew what the hell was going on.
I’d been late getting home. Calming Dalton had been no small task. He had been so deeply embarrassed I wondered if he’d quit and hide from me. I knew he hadn’t been thinking about my relationship with T. He’d just been caught up in his dream of having a baby, and I was his friend, safe. Dalton knew I’d reject him gently if that’s how things went. If not, he would have someone he trusted for the next adventure.
Breaking his heart was the worst, but when I left him, we had new common ground and I’d repeated my promise to help him get what he wanted.
“One day, hopefully not too far away, we’ll be sitting outside on the grass together, our babies playing side by side.” I left him with that hopeful image and a small smile on his lips.
Then I’d gotten a call about a potential incursion along the perimeter of the factory. Perhaps the aviary shifters had thought the noise from the machinery would cover their attempts to get inside, or we hadn’t thought to cover that area from aerial attacks, but they were wrong and some of them had paid with their lives for their arrogance.
There had been no one left alive by the time I’d gotten there in my wolf form. My alter was still furious he’d been denied a fight.
Keyed up with nowhere for the energy to go, I’d focused on making dinner for T, worried he was so much later than either of us thought he would be. I’d ended up eating alone before T stumbled into our home, enforcers holding him up.
It was far too late to bother my brother by calling to ask about the situation, but I was too worried about T to think about my niblings.
“Yeah?” Blake said warily as he answered.
“Do you know why T is passed out after healing?” I asked as I tried to clean up the mess I’d made in the kitchen.
“Has no one told you what happened?”
Was that anger in his voice?
“Would I be calling you at midnight if they had?” My exasperation got the best of me. “Sorry.”
“Nah. Fair point.”
“So what the fuck happened? He could barely walk. I got a sentence out of him and nothing since.”
“You’re never going to believe what he and Hiroshi did—“
“This was the healing on Roan that did this?” I interrupted.
“Axel, they gave Roan back full use of his arm!” I could almost feel the wonder through the phone.
Heading back into the bedroom, I stared at the sleeping form of my lover. “That’s… a miracle.”
“More than that. They healed Roan so much the magic went and healed Hiroshi right up. Sent him into heat.”
