I was just worried she might be broken beyond repair when we did.
Her genetics were still utterly confusing to me, her immortality an unknown.What if the fall kills her?I wondered.What if I sent her to her death?
Stop,Ty hissed into my mind.She’s going to be fine.
But I felt his rising concern, his mind gluing all the pieces together.
He’d completed that fall once. He knew what it was like.
And he knew a human could never survive it.
We’ll catch her,he vowed.I’ve never let you down before, Melek. I’m not going to start?—
He cut off as he shot up into the sky, Cami’s tumbling form finally visible and heading right for him. My wings engaged, my ethereal form teleporting me to his side just as he deftly caught our angel in his arms.
Relief struck me.
Followed by instant terror.
“She’s not breathing!” I shouted over the wind our wings were creating.
Ty didn’t reply, just disappeared with her, his mind telling me he’d teleported to our suite. I followed, my heart shattering in my chest.
She can’t be dead.I could still feel her soul.She’ll survive. She has to fucking survive!
“Melek,” Ty said, his voice holding a note of dominance that forced me to look at him. “Listen. Her heart is beating. She’s already healing. She’s going to be fine.”
He laid her on our bed as Az appeared with Ajax right beside him, the pair searching the room with frantic gazes.
“She’s alive,” Ty told them before they could rush the bed. “Just give her time. That fall… it’s brutal. But she’s stronger than any of us have realized.”
I heard his mind whispering thoughts on why that was, how that could be.Virtuous Fae heritage, rolled through his thoughts.A connection to Melek? Or something else entirely? And what am I sensing…
He trailed off, his gaze roaming over her mostly nude form. It wasn’t a look of masculine admiration so much as curiosity, like he was searching for information about her origin.
With his lips twisting slightly, he grabbed a blanket from the side of our bed and covered her. “She’s breathing now,” he told me. “The fall just knocked the wind out of her.”
“How is that possible?” I asked. “When you fell…”
“I landed in the pits of Hell,” he replied without looking at me. “She landed in a pillow of power.” His eyes finally met mine. “I caught her with my energy before she landed in my arms.”
Az took a step forward, his Phoenix peering out through his blazing gaze. In a blink, he relaxed and then yanked Ajax into a hug. The Midnight Fae male clung to him, showcasing an emotional side I’d never seen from him before, but I more than understood it.
We’d nearly lost her.
I could feel it in my chest, mysoul.
“Vivaxia had her,” I breathed. “But I don’t understand how. The Virtuous Fae Realm… it was destroyed.” Yet I’dfeltCamillia’s location in my spirit, her mind supplying all the visual details to confirm where she’d ended up.
“Not as destroyed as we thought,” Ty muttered, running a palm over his face. He’d taken a step away from the bed, but he was still standing the closest to Cami, his opposite hand opening and closing like he was fighting the urge to touch her. “They’re behind all of this. The portals. The attacks.Cami.”
I swallowed, hating that he was right. But it made too much sense for me to deny it.
She possessed Virtuous Fae power. I’d known that from the beginning. However, I’d thought Vita had chosen her as Ty’s potential mate.
Now… now I wasn’t sure what to think.
I hadn’t been able to access enough of Cami’s thoughts to understand what was happening with Vivaxia or how she’d ended up there, but I’d sensed her fear and her inner chaos. She hadn’t wanted to be there. That had to mean something, right?
