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Chapter Eight
Setting a circle of salt around the chair where she’d placed Creed Mathers, the Dragon who was her Mate, as well as her Mark, Alex took a step back and let out the breath she’d been holding for what seemed like forever. Looking at his face, her heart sunk. It wasn’t that he wasn’t still the handsomest man she’d ever laid eyes on, even with all the cuts, scrapes, and bruises, it was the fact that he’d gotten those cuts, scrapes, and bruises onherwatch.
“But you were only watching him because you were ordered to kill him. Something, I am proud to say, you did not do,”Verity challenged.
“I couldn’t,”she admitted.“No matter how hard I tried to pull the trigger, it just wouldn’t happen.
“You would’ve killed him anyway?”The Fairy with whom she shared her soul shrieked.
“No, for Goddess’ sake, you know I wouldn’t have. I’m just saying…”
“You’re just saying that you think your gun malfunctioned?”
“It had to be, right?”
“No.”
“No?”
“Exactly,”Verity emphatically declared.“Because you can’t kill your Mate. It’s against the laws of Nature and of the Universe.”
“So, you’re saying that the Universe stopped me from pulling the trigger?”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
“Well, I’ll be…”Inhaling deeply, she added,“That had to have been why everything felt upside-down and inside-out.”
“Now, you need to do exactly as I say so you don’t become the number one fugitive of The Crow and we both get to live happily ever after with that hunka-hunka-burning love, Creed.”
“Why do I think I’m not gonna like this?”
“Because you’re not gonna like it,” Verity confirmed.“But I’ve thought about it from the moment I saw that the Mark was our Mate, and it’s the only way we all get out of this alive.”
“Okay,”Alex sighed. “Hit me.”
“Get Creed’s cell phone out of the inside pocket of his jacket.”
“Why? I have a cell phone of my own.”Pulling the device from her back pocket, Alex held it in front of her face.
“I know you do, Dingbat. You’re gonna need his so you can send a picture to one of the other Paladins.”
“So I can do what?”
“Hold your horses, Alex. Don’t have a heart attack. Just hear me out.”
“Okay,”she slowly answered, holding perfectly still and waiting for an explanation before doing anything Verity wanted.
“I meant, get the phone out of his pocket and I’ll explain while you’re doing that.”
Doing as her Fairy wanted, sure the plan was doomed to fail even though Verity hadn’t been wrong in nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine years, Alex got the device from Creed’s jacket pocket as the Black Fairy continued to explain.“Now, you’re gonna take a picture of our Mate.”
“Yeah, I got that when you said we were sending a picture to one of the other Paladins. I’m just waiting for more in-depth details of how this isn’t gonna end in death for us all.”Huffing out an exasperated breath and pushing the hair off her shoulder Alex admitted,“Before last night, I had resigned myself to the fact that I had one more job to finish and then I would be winging off to the Heavens.”
Eyes going to an unconscious Creed, she sighed,“But now I’ve sorta kinda met him and everything’s changed. Not to mention the fact that somebody wants him dead. Wait. Check. The Morrígan, my boss, wants my Mate dead. How can that be? He’s a Dragon Guardsman, a Paladin Leader for cripes’ sake - one of the best of the best of the best. Am I supposed to believe that he’s broken the law and been found guilty? Not on a bet. I can feel the goodness and honor coming off him in waves. I felt it in my bones – something about this whole mission was off from the get-go.”
“Okay, first things first. Let’s follow my plan, then you can come up with one of your own to find out why we’re in this situation,”Verity prodded.“If our collective butts are down below, we won’t be able to clear this mess up, will we? Soooo….”
“You win,”Alex conceded. “But only because my hormones are in overdrive, and I can’t come up with a better idea.”
