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Seb smiled at my admission.
“But I’d like you both to leave now,” I said, picking up the knife to complete the only way Seb’s mistake could be reversed.
“No.” Kane’s voice was low but soft. “I’m not going anywhere until I know she is alive and well.”
“Me neither,” Seb said.
“Then you will both leave after I have performed the healing.”
Kane and Seb stared at each other and nodded.
I picked up the knife with my right hand and, with a quick and clean movement, sliced it through my left palm. The only place the knife could cut through a god’s skin without killing them. The sting wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected and as the blood dripped from the cut; I lowered my hand and joined it against Lacey's injury.
An elixir of life pulsing amid every cell in my body, transmitting hope down my veins and into her. Forcing a blood bond to form, one that she or any other wouldn’t find a spell to break.
I felt every palpitation feeding her, and the gods would hate that she now had real darkness within her.
Before I made the cut, I didn’t know if this would work. The scriptures asked for both cuts to be made on the palm of the hand, but as my hand covered the wound, I could feel a heart beating passably underneath my palm.
I hoped it was hers and not my own.
Tears sprung to my eyes, hoping this was going to work once I removed my hand.
I turned to Kane and Seb who watched intently, their gazes not deterring as each stood silently waiting for a sign.
I sucked in a breath and it was the only sound in the room, though wildlife tweeted and scurried around outside. The sound of a horse neighing heightened my senses, but not enough to wait for a sign she was getting better and not dying.
The sign was not forthcoming and all I could do was wait this out.
“Go home,” I said.
I sensed danger, because I was weakening as I tried to bring life back to Lacey.
“No, not until we know she is alive,” Kane said. “I can’t leave her until I know that.”
“I feel a beat. It’s faint but not weakening. But I need to preserve all my energy into saving her life and not worrying one of the two of you will do something stupid... I need to rest with her.”
Seb shifted uncomfortably on his feet and glanced at Kane.
“We’ll go, but we are coming back for her,” Kane said. His tone wasn’t of fear of who he was talking to. I nodded.
“I’ll call you.”
Kane nodded. Seb grunted.
“Oh...” I waited for the two men to look at me. “You will need to ask Clay to lift the wards on your home.”
“Sorry?”
“Lacey... she is pregnant with my child.”
“You—,” Seb roared, and I arched an eyebrow.
“You are lucky the baby is fine, because if it wasn’t, you would now be dead.”
“You can’t kill me,”
“Don’t tempt me, Seb. I now have the knife. Or you could both leave and trust me.”
