“Hey, are you ok?” She asks softly, her thumbs stroking along my cheek bones as she looks at me worried.
“What if I can’t do it?” I ask. “What if I do it wrong? Or it doesn’t work and we lose him?”
She flinches and I instantly regret the last question but she won’t let me pull back when I try. My eyes can’t focus on one part of her face no matter how much I want them too. My brain is spinning too fast and my breathing gets faster following suit.
Lips meet mine in a hard kiss and I pull her closer.
“Breath, Mav.” She smiles softly. “You can do this, I’m right here.”
I take a deep breath, her kiss effectively stopped my panic attack in its tracks forcing me to breathe normally again. She turns in my lap so her back is to my chest and she’s so small that I can easily reach around her to get to Levi. I place both of my hands above the salve, and she places both of her hands on my forearms not lending me any magic or anything like that, just being there for me.
I practically fall into my magic as it comes easily now that I’m calm and have Sage with me. I know it won’t always be like that and although I’m infinitely grateful for Sage’s help I’ll also be glad when we get to this Blood Moon Academy and I can actually learn something useful and learn to become an Enforcer.
I focus my magic on the salve not on Levi’s wound which I can see spreading like its some sort of flesh eating bite which it probably is now that I think about it. I make sure to keep my focus on the salve as I ask my magic to strengthen the healing properties in it and pull the poison from them healing the wound just enough that it opens the Bond channel and we can all heal him fully.
For a full minute nothing happens. Sage’s hands tighten around my forearms and I refuse to give up.
I will not lose my brother.
Sweat beads on my forehead as push more of my magic into the salve, not daring to take my eyes off of Levi so that I can see any change in his condition at all to show that its working. Another minute ticks by agonisingly slowly before finally the black lines of poison spreading out from the wound gradually start to retreat. So slowly at first that I dare not hope that I am actually making a difference.
“It’s working!” Kai suddenly exclaims and I grin that’s all the reassurance I need that I have not imagined it.
I keep up the stream as the poison starts to retreat quicker and Sage grips my arms again.
“Your doing it, Mav. I am so fucking proud of you.” She mutters as she leans back further and gently kisses my cheek.
My heart swells with pride and love for our woman.
She slowly shifts out of my arms trying not to interrupt the glow of navy blue magic flowing from my hands to the salve. I smile as she moves back to where she was gently shifting his head into her lap and stroking his hair.
“Ok, they’ve retreated enough that you can try to use you Soulmate Bond to heal him fully. I feel like I need to say this again though, this is purely speculation on my part I have no idea if it will actually work but I hope like hell that it does.” Kysen says sounding as worried as the rest of us.
Chapter Eight
Sage
“It’ll work.” I say firmly. “It has no choice but to work.”
I watch as Maverick continues to let the magic flow into the salve even though we’ve been given the go ahead to use the Bond now.
“Mate it’s ok.” Kysen says, “even if you stop your magic from flowing into the salve its stored enough that it will continue to work for a few minutes. it won’t spread if you let go I promise.”
It just shows how much we’ve come to trust Kysen when Mav takes a deep breath and stops the flow of magic. We all lay our hands on Levi and I instantly open the link with others not wanting to waste any time. Following an instinct that I hope like freaking hell doesn’t fail us now, I link up with Levi and instead of just me sending him my magic and willing him to use it to heal I urge the others to do the same. Levi is going to need all of the healing energy he can get.
Even though I have my eyes closed I sense when Kysen lays his hands on Levi and lends his own magic to help us. There’s a very faint silver line that links in with our usual lines sort of like when we linked with Erin and her guys except theirs is gold. I haven’t really noticed it before and now that I’m thinking about it I remember that Cole’s line was silver too, when he briefly heard Mav’s commands in the clearing with the Director and Creep.
I refocus and find Levi’s Bond line in my mind projecting what I’m doing to the others and hearing a quiet gasp which I’m guessing is coming from Kysen.
“It’s alright Dude just relax. It’s weird at first but you’ll get used to it, it helps if you close your eyes.” Kai mutters quietly.
Levi’s Bond line is faint and when I gather the healing strands from theothers which appear as soft earthy green lines and try to send it down the Bond line to Levi it meets resistance.
“Fuck no.” I say fiercely.
Like hell will that poison win after we’ve come so close to saving him. I will not lose Levi. Something inside me stirs, different than my usual magic but I don’t question anything at the moment. The black in my magic increases almost completely eclipsing the gold and purple. It surges forward and obliterates the barrier. I try to pull it back to contain it so that the healing magic can get through to Levi but it resists.
“You are mine and we are one I command you to back the fuck up!”I demand of it.
