“You get to do this all the time, this is new for me, Dec!” I scanned the sky, everyone looked so tiny beneath us. Like tiny play soldiers.
Just as quickly as we rose, we descended. Declan quickly set me down on the ground as I tried to get my barrings.
“There she is.” I turned to find the object of Declan’s gaze, the bitch herself. Keziq knelt in the snow, piles of dead vampires littered the ground around her, the blood dripping from their eyes caking their faces. “Lennox Adair, what a pleasant surprise.”
“I can’t say I feel the same.” I could feel Declan’s presence behind me as I approached the witch.
“Where’s your mate?” She glanced behind the hulking harpy. “It’s rare to see one of you without the other.”
“He’s occupied.” I gave her a placating smile. “But you’ll soon find out what he’s up to.” I tamped down on the pressure sitting on my chest.He’ll be fine.I took a deep breath and refocused on the task at hand.
My hand closed around the pommel of my sword. “I?—”
I gasped for breath, my hand going to my chest as my heart compressed.
Pain coursed through my limbs, my entire body trembling.
“What have you done?” Keziq hissed.
I managed to stay standing, turning my gaze to Keziq. Her eyes were wide, her face pale as she clawed at her chest and neck like she was trying to climb out of her skin.
“What have you done?”
“Once the spell is complete, you and Luka will no longer be linked.” I panted, as the pain consumed my body.
“No, it’s not possible,” she shrieked.
I forced myself to take a step toward her, my limbs heavy. I grit my teeth as I moved my other leg. The distance between us seemed so much farther than before.
My palm burned, and the vein in my arm pulsed. I could feel the blood coursing through my veins in the arm where my mate mark rested. My blood felt like it was boiling, trying to burn its way through my skin.
I turned my palm over. My mating mark burned. The vines wrapped around my marriage mark flickered like a flame.
“Lennox, are you okay?”
“I—” Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. My body felt sluggish, each movement slow. My chest rose and fell as I gasped for air.
My eyelids felt heavy, I struggled to keep them open as darkness crept in at the corners of my vision.
“Lennox.”
A scream tore from my throat. I fell to my knees, clutching my chest. My heart—my heart felt like it was ripping itself in two.
The screams continued as I willed the pain to stop.
What was happening?
What was?—
What—
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Darkness surrounded me.
I couldn’t see anything.
