Page 70 of The Mating Need
He is not Lupine. He is evil and evil must be vanquished anddestroyed.
Caderyn looked down at her, nodding, as if he understood her trepidation. “You dispatched Perry to save yourself. This is different. Instinct guided you previously, but this time, you are killing a demon who has presented no clear threat to you personally. Remember this. Ellison is not a someone. He is not a friend, nor even a shadow of a Lupine. He is darkness, and you arelight.”
“He looks like he always did,” Jenny murmured. “He’s cocky but protective of thepack.”
Caderyn stretched out a hand. “What do you see beneath hisface?”
Jenny focused. “Just a face. Nothing. His aura is gray, but not black like Perry’swas.”
Ellison started tostir.
“Try again. This time do not look with your eyes.” Caderyn pointed to his chest. “Look with your heart. Look into his heart and his soul. Look at Ellison as if you had to trust him with your life. Wouldyou?”
Intense. Unsure of her skills, Jenny hesitated. She glanced at Troy, who noddedencouragement.
Maybe if I look at Ellison as if I had to trust him with Troy’s life, notmine.
Turning her attention back to Ellison, who was struggling to sit up, she concentrated. Saw him as a cowboy who had to save Troy’s life from a pack of vicious Lupines. She imagined the Lupines racing forward, ready to tear Troy into pieces. Only Ellison could save herlover.
Jenny let her powers flow and this time, she saw a death’s head skull flickering below Ellison’sface.
Ellison would not saveTroy.
Ellison would killhim.
“I see it!” She felt exuberant and yet sad at the sametime.
“Your heart told you the truth your eyes refused to believe. Now you must destroy him,” Caderyn toldher.
“I don’t know if Ican…”
The Shadow Wizard took her hands. “The power is within you. Take all your magick, feel the white light inside you, and gather it into your hands, holding it as you would one of those…ah…”
He glanced atTristan.
“Baseballs,” the Silver Wizardoffered.
“Yes, that.” Her father released her hands. “Doit.”
Jenny focused and culled all hermagick.
Ellison saw them, scrambled to his feet. “Now look here, this is all a misunderstanding. If you’d let meexplain…”
“Do not listen to the demon,” Caderynwarned.
She flung out her hands and directed the light into Ellison’s body. He screamed and clutched his chest. White light bathed him, squeezing out of his skin, pouring out of his eyes, nostrils, mouth as he screamed and batted at it, as if he burned fromwithin.
Then Ellison looked at her, pleading. “Jenny, please, don’t do this. I’m not what you think. Please I promise I’ll change. I’ll begood!”
“Do not let up, daughter,” Caderyn roared. “Do not listen tohim!”
Yet her father’s words did not convince her. What if she were wrong, and they were all wrong and Ellison couldchange?
Jenny pulled back. “I can’t do this,” she cried out. “I can’t killhim!”
“You must finish him off,” Caderynyelled.
Suddenly Troy was at her side, talking to her. More than this father she barely knew, she needed her lover, herrock.
