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“Don’t mind me, Macey. You don’t have a water mark yet. But here’s Flint’s.” His fingers lowered slightly, still in line with where Cam’s mark was. He traced the pattern slowly, and surely, and she could picture it in her mind.
“Why don’t I have a mark for me yet?” It didn’t make any sense. If she was water, then surely she should’ve started with that one? And it felt uneven to have two marks on one side and only a single one of the other. What was with that? And what did she need to do to make her own mark appear? Having sex with herself obviously didn’t do the trick, or it would have arrived already.
“I don’t know. I have a theory, but I don’t think you’re ready to hear it just yet.”
“Jared...” she drew out his name like a plea.
“Not yet, Macey. Not yet.”
“Come on, tell—”
A burning pain rammed into Macey’s skull and she screamed as she felt her body fall backwards at the same time as her mind was ripped away.
“HAVE YOU MISSED ME?”
The Voice was back, and it seemed even stronger this time. So much pain. Macey was struggling to hold onto sanity as agony threatened to overwhelm her. It would be so easy to give in, to be swept away...
“I WAS WRONG.”
Even in her haze, she knew that it was strange for the villain to admit that he’d been wrong. “Huh?” was all she managed to say.
“YOU AREN’T THE SECOND. YOU WILL BE MY THIRD. ICE IS WALKING STRAIGHT INTO MY TRAP, THINKING HE CAN RESCUE HIS PARTNER. WHAT A FOOL. TOMORROW, I’LL HAVE LIGHTNING AND ICE, AND WATER WILL BE MY THIRD. I AM CLOSE NOW, LITTLE KELPIE. DON’T STRUGGLE, YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T WIN.”
That made sense. He was strong, powerful, she was just a girl. She couldn’t fight him. It was pointless. Maybe she should just give in. Let him take her.
“GOOD GIRL. TELL ME THAT YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOU AWAY. JUST SAY THOSE WORDS.”
Yes, that sounded easy. If only she could speak. She was too weak to form words, too weak to even form proper thoughts. But him taking her sounded good. Painless. Maybe he’d take the pain away.
“YES, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT ONCE YOU’RE WITH ME. YOU WON’T FEEL ANY PAIN. YOU’LL BE HAPPY.”
Happy. But wasn’t she happy already? She was having a hard time remembering why that was. Something about other people. Her men. The memories came flooding in and the Voice screamed as Macey’s magic fizzled into life.
“I’LL BE BACK. NEXT TIME YOU’LL BE WEAK ENOUGH FOR ME TO BREAK THROUGH. SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR WARDENS WHILE YOU CAN. I ONLY NEED FOUR OF YOU, SO NOT ALL OF THEM WILL BE NECESSARY.”
With a final hit against her mental barriers, he disappeared and Macey was flung back into her body. Which was not a good thing.
It hurt so bad. Everything was burning. She needed water, quickly. Lots of it. She could feel her kelpie form pressuring her to be let out. Shifting would make the pain go away, but for that she needed water. Kelpies couldn’t breathe on land and could only hold their breath for so long.
“Water,” she whispered, not knowing if anyone was listening. She was too feeble to even open her eyes. The pain was still as bad as when the Voice had been inside her, if not worse. She gave her magic free reign and sighed in relief as cool water touched her skin. It made the pain slightly more bearable.
Someone picked her up and carried her. There were voices, noises, doors banging, but all she could do was trying to hold back a whimper. Her stomach lurched with every step of the person carrying her and she was having a hard time not throwing up. It was too much.
Her skin was burning up again and she called on her magic to cool h
erself. She needed to get away from the fire that was hurting her. She moved feebly, trying to get away.
“Shhhushh, you’ll be in the water in a moment,” a soothing voice said, but it hurt to listen. Her kelpie form was close to bursting out while her magic was trying to break free at the same time. She just wanted to give up and let them take over. There were two forces fighting inside of her and she didn’t have the energy to do anything about it.
Another wave of pain crushed into her and this time, she couldn’t help but whimper.
“Almost there, stay with me.”
Such an easy thing to say, such a hard thing to do. Fire was burning through Macey’s veins and made her scream out in pain. Her magic came without being called, but there was too much heat and not enough water. She could feel her skin sizzle and break into sores.
“Throw her in!”
A second later, she was home. Cool, gentle water hugging her from all sides, soothing the pain, clearing her mind. It still hurt, but the fog slowly dissipated, making it easier to think.
