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My priority right now wasn’t to argue with him she was mine now. It was to save her life so we could at least work out what Lacey wanted. And the blood bond would be hard for her to fight. I should have thought of it before, fated mates, she had three.
But she only had one blood bond.
Chapter 43
Lacey
Myeyesdartedopento a brightly lit room. Many people stood around me, but nobody was talking, only watching me with strange eagerness. I tried to push myself into a sitting position; the movement caused my whole body to seize, paralysed in time, I couldn’t move.
These were my gods.
My eyes widened, my heart skipped a beat.
My mouth opened, ready to scream.
I wasn’t ready.
I didn’t want to leave that life.
“Take me back,” I yelled. “Take me back.” I shut my eyes tight as I willed myself back. “We can make it work. Send me back.”
“I can make it work... please. I will do anything to go back... anything.”
Something hot slithered across my chest as bright lights invaded inside my head. I tried to pry open my eyes, but the agony scorched and deepened. A heavy thud settled in my stomach, but it wasn’t arousal that was warming my body but a deep, relentless pain.
I groaned as I shook my head to clear my vision, but as arrant fear zipped through my body, instinctively, I knew this was a fight for my life.
Agony shot down into my back. My hand moved to cover the pain as I tried to piece together my memories of what had happened to me.
I pushed against the bed I knew they laid me on and forced me to sit up. But stopped at feeling the churning of bile rising, I tried to relax for a moment, enough time for it to stay down in my stomach.
I knew then I had been asleep for some time. I remembered coming in and out of sleep, but the times I’d lost count. But it was now daytime, and the sunshine streamed through the open window. I inhaled the fresh air as the grassy scents mixed with floral.
My mouth closed as my eyes opened. A man lingered, but I could only see a presence in my blurred vision. I blinked hard again, and focussed as I gazed upward at the gorgeous male who stared down at me, his pale blue eyes full of longing, but it was the pain in his eyes that clenched my heart.
“Fuck Lacey, you’re awake.” The deep masculine voice reverberated through my aching head.
I let out a whimper.
“You need to regain your strength,” he said. I felt like I was in a magical lull, the place between knowing I had magic but not having the ability to use it.
My throat was dry. I swallowed the tiny amount of saliva I could muster. Not that it helped. “Water.” I gasped and closed my eyes. Sleeping the pain off would be better than anything right now.
Minutes or hours later, I didn’t know, as time seemed to have no meaning. He placed a straw against my mouth and my dry, chapped lips sucked at the top. Tiny sips of heaven, enough for me to close my eyes. Breathing deep, I pushed the bed once again, but a cry left my lips and I realised my torment, as I closed my eyes and everything went black again.
“She’s alive, but she’ll need to stay here for a while longer. She isn’t well enough to leave.”
I couldn’t tap into my super hearing, too weak to do anything but squint my eyes, but I tried to push myself into a sitting position in the bed.
Through heavy eyes, I watched as a dark blur got closer and one arm curled around my shoulders, as the other curved beneath my knees and gently lifted me backward, sitting me against the headboard.
Pain combusted through my side and I was sure my face distorted with the tangible agony on my body. I felt the area. A large bandage circled my lower abdomen.
“Sorry,” he whispered. “It’ll feel better in a couple of days. A blood bond saved you, but you need to gain your strength back and then your magic will heal it fully.”
“Heal what?”
Blood bond.
