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I pushed through my mind to connect with her, but nothing was coming back. But if the dark king had her and was now trying to claim her as his own, he would use every bit of power to hide her from her fated mates.
She was somewhere so far away I just couldn’t grasp her. I punched my fist into the sofa. This was a fucking nightmare. I roared because I knew if I didn’t connect to her soon; I was going to lose my shit.
Then I felt her, just a small puff of light I could feel as she pushed her magic into me. Telling me she needed some help. She was still alive, but in reality, I knew I never had a problem with her being killed today. The dark king didn’t want her dead, he wanted her and only her, but I made a silent prayer and thanked the gods that would remain the case.
My problem was if the dark king tried to take her from this world to his dark world. Making her live a life with him with the absence of the light she craved.
“Lacey.”I pushed through my inner thoughts once again.
A fast moving tunnel, cities, roads, forests flashed by as my hands tried to touch what she saw.
“Kane.”My heart ached as her presence called to me in a way that I never knew it could. My eyes shot open seeing her hidden beneath of veil of invisible air. My nostrils flared, not only at seeing her slinking through the dense woods, but also from the musky smell of something putrid that seemed to bask around her.
I closed my eyes again and silently asked the gods for help.
She came into view, wading through shallow water. Lacey said Blake could sift in and out of dimensions. Now everything made sense. But it wasn’t my concern for now. She was somewhere at the far end of the dark tunnel. My guts clenched at that thought, but nothing about what I was seeing looked like it could be the lower world.
I needed to find her; she needed our help, and I knew what she asked, but this time, she needed my help more than Aria did.
“Kane, we need to go,” Seb growled, his hand clamping down hard on my shoulder as I blinked out of my trance. “Any idea where she is?”
“They sifted somewhere, I saw woods, they left the city and are somewhere rural. She jumped in a stream.” I sighed. I was letting her down. “How could we fail her like this? It was so fucking obvious.”
“Now it’s obvious.”
“Think. Where can she be?” I said, banging my fist against my head. “Think, think, think.”
“Fuck... I know where she is,” Seb grunted. “When he rescued her from the vampire king, he left her in a house in rural Oxfordshire. We’ll start at that house. Intuition tells me she is going to be somewhere around there.”
“Car or flying?” I asked.
“I have a feeling we are going to have to save our energy,” Seb said. “Because this needs to end, even if it ends me and you are the only one who gets a happy ever after with her.”
“Don’t fucking say that. She’ll die if you die. You are coming back. We are all coming back.”
Because as fragile as this relationship started, it was coming together. The building blocks weren’t just laying on top of each other, there was a thick layer of cement between each which bound us together.
But if I had learned anything about Seb over the lives I had spent with him, I trusted him with Lacey. His love for her had no end and no beginning. It was one continuous circle of devotion. He would do anything and everything within his power for her and now I knew that included sacrificing his life.
I’d witnessed how far he had gone in our previous lives, which brought us to this moment in time.
But this wasn’t only Seb, I would do anything for her too.
“We’re coming for you, Lacey.”
Chapter 41
Lacey
TheonethingIhad noticed was my bonds were pulling tight, and I didn’t know if it was Blake or Kane or Seb.
First, I felt one clearly, but now two more were coming closer. This had to be Kane and Seb. Those two bonds were full of anxiety and I pushed the feeling of calmness to them through the bond. I could only hope this helped to lessen the severity of their angst. The bind seemed calmer now, the edge of the pull taken off.
Blake laid next to me, watching my every move. I didn’t fear Blake. I had no real urgency to fight this bind again. But I still want my family, something he needed to learn.
“Lacey, do you feel me?”I knew that was Seb, as his bind pulled at my heart.
“Yes, Seb. I feel you.”
