Page 174 of Their Lethal Pet
Sabre darts forward, ready to rip the Shifter Fae off his lover, but I step in the way, blocking him from making a lethal mistake.
“Stop!” I shout, my lethal strands shooting out of my skin and wrapping around everyone near me. Including Flame.
Snarls erupt in response.
Snarls I respond to with a deadly one of my own as Isqueeze.
“Everyone. Fucking.Stop.”
A few do.
But Orcus… he has his sights on Helia and Cain, his red eyes and splayed wings telling me he’s about to do some serious damage.
He doesn’t care that they’re royals or powerful themselves. He’s a God, and he’s about to show them what that means.
So I do the only thing I can think of and shout, “Monster.”
He freezes, the safeword having been engraved into his mind by our mate. His Alpha side knows what it means. Knows he doesn’t want to hear it. Knows that it’simportant.And it’s just enough to make him pause to look at me.
“The magic is Mythos Fae,” I tell him. “I can see it in the in-between plane. And it just tried to shove me out the fucking window.”
He faces me fully. “Explain.”
“I wish I could,” I tell him. “But Alina is here somewhere. In this world. I can feel her.”
“I can’t,” he says through his teeth. “It’s like when the Omegas first disappeared.”
“Because whatever this is, it’s Mythos Fae related.” I’m sure of it now. “I need everyone to calm the fuck down so I can focus.”
I don’t wait for them to agree, just blink out of existence again and start hunting.
It’s only been two or three minutes since Alina disappeared, despite it feeling like longer due to all the motions of everyone else. But my soul understands timelines better than most.
Everything is a ticking clock.
Life. Death. Afterlife. Rebirth.
It’s all a cycle, one I’mveryattuned to.
Souls are my purpose, and it’s a purpose I tap into now as I track Alina’s essence once more. She’s almost entirely gone, but that strange magic is still hovering in the in-between.
Lingering. Waiting.Observing.
It’s a bizarre incantation, one that has been here for a very long time.
Definitely manifestation magic,I decide as I cautiously move toward the subtle shimmer.
I wouldn’t have even noticed its existence had it not been caressing the remnants of Alina’s spirit. But now that I’ve sensed it, I can feel the hum of foreign energy all around this room.
No,I think, ghosting down to the street.It’s all over this city.
Frowning, I take myself to the cabin Orcus built and study the in-between once more.
Nothing.
No strange sensation of being watched.
No sense of lingering.
