I couldn’t breathe.
Couldn’t see.
It was so intense. So damn hot. So… so…consuming.
Ezra, I breathed, feeling his energy everywhere as a fissure split through the atmosphere, the balance turning upside down and the realms shuddering from the aftershocks of the destruction.
The veil,I thought.The veil!
It was a thousand times worse than the firework I’d released in Virginia.
A million times worse than I’d ever anticipated.
Because it pulled at my heart and drowned my soul beneath a sea of despair.
We were running out of time.
I had to get through this fucking barrier.
I had to stop them!
But I didn’t fucking know how.
And those damn shadows… I shuddered, feeling their cooling presence.
Enough, I thought.Enough of this!
Ezra and I were the new Divinity. A balance of all three realms. Heaven. Hell.AndEarth. Because I was a Halfling.
The daughter of an Archdemon.
I might not be able to feel my mate right now, but I could sense our power, that hum of energy that married our souls.
A perfect balance, I marveled, latching onto it and tightening my grip on the blade.More,I demanded, reaching deep inside to that plane where my soul existed with Ezra’s spirit.Give. Me. More.
I yanked on the power there, pulling it into me, surrounding myself with it, swathing my entire being in blissful balance.
My lungs inflated in response, my body taking a deep, steadying breath.
Yes.
This was what I needed.
A blissful Divinity.
A perfect union.
A place founded in equality and… andlove.
My heart warmed. My soul rejoiced. My veins pulsated.
Yes. Yes.
I vaguely felt Ezra’s reaction through the bond, his exhausted mind intrigued by this shifting of power. Then I felt him lending me his strength, pushing his power to me through the bond.
And then I felt his hand.
His body.
