“Just think of her.Open your wolf to your connection as truemates.”
She closed her eyes and focused both her magics, drawing them together, weaving them into a thick thread of magic.Solan stepped up next to her and settled his hand on her back, and she felt her magic respond to him.He was her anchor, her catalyst.Hereverything.
When Leo touched his wolf and focused on Mira, Kaeli spoke the spell with every ounce of power and magic inside her.“Delins, fastarle, delinaso, mesture!”
Leo gasped as her magic wrapped around him.She opened her eyes, but she didn’t see what was around her; she saw Mira.
She was chained to the support beam in an empty room with concrete walls and broken windows.She was gagged; her head lolled to the side as if she were still unconscious.A man stood nearby on the phone, and she could see the shadows of other men.
The vision ebbed backward like a wave and shattered, and Kaeli let go of Leo, her knees going out from under her.Solan caught her.“What did you see?”
“I saw her.She’s alive but unconscious.In a warehouse.”She described the man she saw, and Adam snarled.
“That’s Hawthorne.”
“The shifter hunter?”she asked with a shiver.
Solan nodded.
A surge of worry flashed through her.That meant Mira was possibly in even more danger.From all she’d heard, Victor Hawthorne was a terrible man who sold shifters like they were trophies.
She quickly spoke the spell again, and this time her magic flowed out of her, and she felt Mira’s location, the name a whisper in her mind.“Darington.”
“That’s on the river,” Adam said.“Twenty minutes tops.”
“Let’s fucking go,” Leo said.“We can’t waste another minute.”
Solan grabbed Kaeli’s hand, and they sprinted for the vehicles, leaving enough wolves behind to care for those who were coming out from under the effects of the smoke Leo had described.
Leo sat in the front seat next to Solan, and Adam got into the back with Kaeli and Dove.“Let’s go,” Leo said.“Hurry.”
Solan nodded.“We’ll get her back.”
Kaeli could feel Leo’s worry for his mate like it was a living thing in the vehicle.She didn’t know what they’d face when they got to the warehouse, but she knew she needed to be there.To get Mira to safety and keep her mate and his friends safe.
“That was pretty damn cool,” Dove whispered.
“I’m so glad it worked,” Kaeli said.
“Me too,” Dove said.“Mira is a really sweet girl.Did you know she was adopted by psychics when her life was in danger when she was little, and she didn’t find out until recently that she was a female gryphon?Apparently, she’s the only female gryphon.They’re usually male.Her mom and sister are calledmadters; they’re supernaturally perfect mates for two males, and their kids are essentially hybrids – the mix of the two shifters.”
“Solan told me some of her story, but I didn’t know that,” Kaeli said.“Northern Ohio sure does have some interesting supernatural creatures here.”
“Oh, for sure,” Dove said.“There’s a Pegasus shifter who lives with the bears, not to mention the dragons, which I think are just too cool.There are also polar bears who are part of the vampire coven.But you can cast spells, I think that’s really awesome.”
“I’m still learning how to wield the magics I have, but I’m doing my best.”
“That’s all anyone would ask of you,” Dove said with a smile.
Kaeli just hoped her best was enough to get Mira free.“I’m ready now, Solan.”
“Cast away,Nightling,” he said.“Tell me where to go.”
She drew on her magics and cast the location spell again, so they didn’t have to waste time searching the town.
I hope this works.
ChapterFifteen
