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Thunder gathers on Lucan’s face.
“Shit! Get back!” Bram shouts. “He’s too far gone. The light has nearly left him, and who knows what he’ll do. We’re almost to my place.”
Marrok hooks an arm around my waist and pulls me against him.
What the hell? “Was he like this before he mated with Anka?”
Bram shakes his head. “When a wizard loses his mate, it can destroy him. The stronger the bond, the heavier the loss. Whatever darkness and instability were in his soul before the mating rushes to the fore and multiplies the pain. After a time, it retreats. Well, usually. But if it takes over, if he becomes feral…”
“Anka?” Lucan demands. His voice rasps as if he’s been possessed.
No one answers. Lucan sniffs and growls, his agitation obvious. Then he grabs Bram by the neck. And squeezes.
Marrok tosses me behind him and lunges forward to stop the crazed wizard.
“No!” Bram manages to get out. “Not in the car. Olivia….”
Bram has a hand crushing his throat while he’s driving, and he’s worried about me?
“We can’t just leave you to be strangled. Can you stop him with magic?”
“No,” he gasps out. “His shields are up. The confines are too close…”
So any spell Bram might wield could…what? Bounce off Lucan and hit someone else?
“What can I do? I am at the ready to help.” Marrok positions his massive shoulders protectively between Lucan and me.
“Same. I don’t know what I can do, but I’ll try.”
The wizard releases Bram and cuts his dark-as-hell eyes at me. “Female? My Anka?”
I freeze. Tell the truth? Lie? Which is least likely to make him crazier?
In the rearview mirror, Bram shoots me a warning glance.
“Friend,” I murmur.
His eerie eyes widen. He leans closer, sniffs me.
“It’s okay.” I tell him the polite lie.
Suddenly, his eyes narrow with menace.
“Back up! Back up!” Bram shouts. “His signature has gone completely dark.”
The words have barely left his mouth before Lucan lunges at me, looking determined to tear my throat out with his bare hands.
Bram brings the Hummer to a screeching halt in front of the manor and darts out while Marrok tries to pull me to safety, but the whacked-out wizard has a death grip on my arm. His fingers bite into me cruelly. I’ll have bruises tomorrow.
Lucan hurls his big body between the vehicle’s seats to reach me, his free hand outstretched toward my neck. Then he’s on me. Marrok punches and pushes, drawing Lucan’s attention.
“Go!” he urges me as Bram opens the back door.
I hesitate. I want to help, but the two men are having a difficult enough time containing Lucan without worrying about my safety, too.
The crisp evening air whips me as I jump out of the car and run for the manor. “Help!”
Ice answers my summons first, filing outside in seconds. “What the hell? Why are they beating the piss out of Lucan?”
