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Bion and I searched around the world, desperately trying to locate our mate. I’d seen the look on her face when she’d left. She was on the warpath. It was the same expression that had been on her face during the final battle of Atlantis.
Zosime planned to end this today. And I couldn’t even see glimpses of the future to know if she had a chance to survive. I knew without a doubt if I’d seen any way that I could help to shift the outcome in her favor, I would do it regardless of our Ancient rules.
They’d bound me with their magik in that last battle, preventing me from going to her side. I’d been unable to help the love of my life.
I’d blamed the Ancients all these long centuries, but in Iolatara, I’d still stuck to my mindset as an Ancient. Refusing to cross the boundaries in order to aid my love. My Soyale.
If I lost her, what did anything else in this world matter?
Today I was going to fight by her side. If I could find her.
Blinking back into the castle, I cursed in twenty long-dead languages, frustrated at my inability to find my mate.
Bion blinked into the room several minutes later.
“Any luck?” I asked hopefully.
“No! Nothing!” Bion began to pace.
Kye snickered, and I shot him a dirty look.
“I was just thinking how much it must suck to feel powerless… like a human. You’ve fallen a long way from the arrogant, all-knowing jerk that we first met.” Kye smirked, but quickly threw up his hands in mock surrender when I lunged for him.
“There she is!”
Fynn’s victorious shout had everyone in the room rushing to crowd around his computer.
“I had to call in some favors, but my network of nerds helped to hack a few cities, and we found her.” Fynn pushed back his chair, giving us a view of the large computer screen.
It showed a security feed of a board meeting. To a human viewing the tape, nothing would seem amiss. Oh, how wrong they would be. Nothing good could be happening in a room full of politicians, an unpredictable siren… and my mother.
“Address?” I barked, but then pulled the information from his mind before he’d spoken it out loud.
I appeared in the boardroom and was surprised when neither Lexi nor the humans reacted to my sudden appearance.
You’re invisible. Don’t make a sound,Zosime’s voice warned in my mind.
How?It wasn’t an ability I possessed or knew how to use.
It’s an ability I possess, she answered, amusement dancing in her tone.
Ignoring me, Zosime’s attention turned back to Lexi, and her amusement dropped away. “So, you were jealous?”
Lexi’s rage was eating at her control. Her hand shook as she slammed her glass down with a sharp crack. A splash of wine leaped over the rim and then paused mid-air before returning to the glass.
I caught the slight movement of Zosime’s finger and realized she’d controlled the wine, and it had obeyed her command.
Pandemonium erupted in the room. My ears rang with the sounds of shattering glass and my mother’s screaming. But I wasn’t focused on her. I was staring at Zosime with growing wonder and shock as I realized she was adapting faster than should be possible.
Something moved across the table in my peripheral vision. It was like seeing a ghost on a homemade film, and I questioned if I’d seen something at all… right up until it glinted again and crashed into Zosime’s chest.
The instant the thing touched her skin, the air shimmered, and the thing’s form came into clear focus.
The Lure.
It wasn’t just a slow creeping infection anymore. Now, it was a disgusting living thing like a shadow from the pits of Hades looking to devour… and it was on Zosime.
My chest squeezed tight. Humans screamed, trying to push away from the desk as they saw the dark tentacles curling around their wrists.
