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“Ours,” Caleb corrected. “We stay together.”
“Now!” my adopted mother screamed.
Chaos broke loose as they dropped down into the ballroom and flooded it, as we quickly learned there were far more waiting outside to come in as well. Hundreds streamed in, but my pack had eyes for two people alone.
My adopted parents tried to stay off to the side, four people as guards around them.
Branson, Riddick, and Triston made short work of the four guards, and my parents stared at us in surprise.
Mother started to reach into her pocket for something, but I jumped forward using my rabbit-human combined legs, and kicked her in her stomach, sending her flying into the wall behind her.
Dad spun to help her, but Caleb sprinted forward, grabbed him by the throat, and slammed him against the wall next to where Mom was slumped.
“You thought you could win with your overwhelming numbers, but since that trap where you almost defeated us, we’ve been doing nothing except prepare for you,” Caleb snarled in his face.
“You will all die,” Dad spat.
Some of their people tried to intervene, but Riddick, Branson, and Triston made an impenetrable wall.
“There’s one thing you didn’t count on, Dad,” I said.
“And what was that, child?”
He had no idea the extra training, the super secretive training, that I had been doing with Jolie and Leona. The tricks they taught me that were only possible once I was mated. Once I was part of each clan, once I was queen. “We outrank every one of your members.” Turning around, I faced the crowd, felt down the bonds I held with my four mates, to each of the four clans. Using a combination of my siren and mage magic, and the bonds that allowed me to access each of the clans, I sang as loudly as I could, “Enemies of mine shall bow before their queens!” It was a spell Jolie, Leona, and I had come up with. One that forced those of a lower rank when in the presence of one of their queens, to immediately bow. It was something we had prepared as we had assumed they might attack tonight while all of the kings and queens were gathered.
Every single enemy dropped to their knees, heads bowed and forced to still.
Mom gasped. “What … how?”
“I told you, I outrank your people now.” Turning, I gave her a smile and said, “And I’m not the weak child with abandonment issues you fought previously.”
“Nicely done!” Jolie praised. “That’s my girl!”
“That’s my sirenling!” Leona cheered.
Walking closer to my adopted mother, I said, “You see, it took me finding them to understand what true motherly love is like. You are nothing more than a therapy topic now. Otherwise, you are nothing.”
Her face contorted in rage and she tried to stab me with a knife I hadn’t seen her pull out of her pocket. I kicked her again, but due to how close we were to the wall, she hit it much harder this time and her head made a sickening crunch before she slid to the ground. Dead.
“No!” Dad screamed and tried to attack me, but Caleb snapped his neck and took two large steps to stand between me and their bodies, blocking my view.
He hugged me and kissed the side of my head, avoiding my crown. “You did great, Ember.”
I nodded. “Is it finally over?”
“For now,” he said with a nod. “There may be stragglers, but we will find them and eradicate them as well.”
Soft, warm hands pulled me away from Caleb and into a tight hug between two bodies. Jolie and Leona.
“You did great, Ember. We’re so proud of you,” Leona said as she stroked her hand down my hair.
Tears built in my eyes and fell down my cheeks, so I pressed my face against her chest. “They’re dead.”
Jolie patted my back. “Yes, they are. They can’t hurt you anymore.”
“It hurts,” I whispered. “I know it needed to happen, I knew it was going to happen, but … it hurts.”
“Yes, death is almost always painful. Just know that it was them who forced your hand. They could have left you alone, they could have let you be, but they didn’t and you did what had to be done,” Leona whispered.
