Page 24 of Vameer

Not by anyone.

I will find her.

I will watch her.

I will learn who she is.

And then… I will decide if she’s better off without me.

I press my hand harder against my chest.

No part of me wants to leave her alone. Every part of me wants her in my arms. In my bed. In my life until the end of time.

But protecting her is my new purpose in life. And I will do that. At any cost.

Tightening my grip on my sword, I look at the sky and drop my hand from my chest.

In order to find my mate, I need to fuel up. Her drop of blood was enough to get me through my change, but I have a feeling that I have a very long way to travel.

Inhaling the last lingering hints of apple in the air, I turn a few degrees north. And I call on my gravito.

It builds. And swirls. And intensifies.

I step forward.

Another step and I’m at the edge of the cliff.

Then I jump.

My power bursts out of me as my feet leave the earth and I accelerate up, into the sky.

The mountain grows smaller below me. Gets farther behind me.

And I shove more gravito forward.

I go faster. Higher.

I need to find energy. Blood. Sangue. But my power…

It is more.

My change was not just in size. The mate bond unlocked something inside me. An extra level of might.

My mouth pulls into a smile as I push even more gravito out. Going even faster.

The fates paired me with a mate who is vulnerable, so they made me even stronger.

A part of my gravito stays wrapped around me, forming a protective bubble against the wind blowing past me. But enough still breaks through, pushing my hair back.

I breathe. Searching for any hint of my girl.

There’s none up here. But that’s okay.

The fates would not have intervened as they did, bringing her to me, waking me, if I was not meant to find her.

I keep moving north and west. Flying. Searching.

The scent of the ocean reaches my nose before the clouds break enough for me to see it.