Page 96 of Touched By Moonlight
Chapter 26
If I didn’t seeit with my eyes, I would have thought myselfhallucinating.
Grayson kept growling at the water as it advanced and crested, ready to crash down upon the bank. But instead of a large, muscled gray timber wolf, he hadchanged.
Tendrils of power glowing on my hands drifted over to Grayson, recognizing my lover who had absorbed some of my magick when we madelove.
And then deep indigo pulsed around him, as if his aura had manifested itself. What stunned me was the energy directing outward from the indigo color. Pure energy that only a Fae couldsummon.
As the water advanced and started to crash down toward us, Grayson snarled and a blue streak of energy sailed out of his mouth toward the water. The two story wave descended to about three feet high, and then froze inplace.
My jaw dropped. Did Grayson do that? Or Kallan? Was it a trick of his to disarm me so he could steal mypower?
Kallan dropped his arms and stepped back, looking unsettled for the first time since our confrontation. And then the wolf breathed another streak of indigo and the ice burst into shards, aimed atKallan.
Kallan ducked, but he wasn’t fast enough. One sharp grazed his cheek, drawing blueblood.
The corners of his mouth lifted in a sneer. “Soon, you bastard. I’ll be back. Soon. And then both of you,” he pointed at me, “will die just likeLavender.”
The Fionn Fae clapped his hands over his hand. A thunderbolt boomed, and the Fae vanished. But not before I saw him grimace, the once-smooth skin etched with lines ofpain.
With a last growl, Grayson snapped his jaws. He turned away and loped back to me. Ice lay scattered on the lake bank, on the grass, dripping and melting as the sun emerged once more. The rapid sound of my own heartbeat echoed in myears.
Something clawed inside me forrelease.
I’d forgotten the enormous power I’d summoned. Almost at my hands. If it reached my fingertips, I’d have to release it outward, or risk losing total control ofit.
Just like lasttime.
Grayson had taken a little from me, but not enough. Closing my eyes, I focused and yanked hard, as if pulling on a rope. The power whined, and retreated alittle.
My body trembled as if someone grabbed me and shook me hard. Power consumed me, danced within me, whined for release. If I didn’t let go of some of it, it would immobilize me like someone grabbing onto live electrical line while standing inwater.
Some of the power retreated, but I had called up too much, too fast. I struggled to hold onto it, keep it from escaping. That energy would fry someone an instant, turn green trees intosplinters.
Dry up the entirelake.
“Come on,” I panted. “Back away. Backaway.”
By now Grayson had shifted back into his human form, clad in jeans, gray shirt and jeans jacket. “Sienna, don’t fightit.”
“I must. I can’t release it. It’s toodestructive.”
“Give it to me.” Grayson stretched out a hand as he advanced towardme.
“No, I can’t.” I gasped as it threatened to overwhelm my entire body. All I could think of was smashing everything. The evil had fled, but the power remained, craving the destruction I had sought in order to protect myself and someoneelse.
“Sienna, trust me. Give some of it tome.”
“Oh yeah?” The last person to say that was now buried six feetunder.
“Sienna, do it or you’ll hurt yourself,” Grayson ordered, and there was a harsh tone in his voice I’d never heardbefore.
“Too late.” It was always too late, always…maybe the lake could absorb some of it and it would be better than letting it zip around the park to kill innocentbystanders.
My right hand glowed electric blue now and I flicked my fingers, ready to release the magick. As I splayed my fingers, Grayson leapt forward in an absurd burst of supernaturalspeed.
He grabbed myhand.
The magick intended for the lake water careened directly into his body. No! I tried to pull it back, but it flowed likewater.
To my second shock of the day, Grayson didn’t scream in agony or burn as the magick flowed into him. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, his entire body glowingblue.
Wonder filled me as I watched him absorb my power like sand absorbing rainfall. When he opened his eyes, the glow surrounding himfaded.
His eyes flared electric blue, like mine did when my power surged, and then amber, and then resumed their normal intenseaquamarine.
The burning ache had fled. I felt almost normal again, except I couldn’t stop my hands from shaking. Not from fear for Grayson, but what I’d justwitnessed.
And perhaps, a little fear of him. What was this wolf and what had I gotten involvedwith?
