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Just hunger and anger and pain. Nothing of the jokester I knew, of the passionate man who smirked at me, who had kissed me just hours before.
“Let them go,” I screamed.
He lowered his gaze to mine, but I still felt as if I didn’t know this person. Was this the real man? The one he’d hidden from me? The part of him that that had peeked through before, but he’d always kept a leash on? Or was it just whatever he was doing? “They were going to kill you,” he said as if that explained it all. “They squander the power they have, the power theystole, so why should they have it at all?”
I didn’t have an answer to that, but it wasn’t aboutthem. It was about that look in his eyes, about not wanting him to do something that would make him hate himself all the more. I recalled the tattoo, the way he called himself a monster. Doing this would only be him proving to himself that he was nothing else.
I set my hands on his cheeks, forcing him to bring his attention back to me. “Let them go. This isn’t you.”
“Isn’t it?”
I went to my tiptoes and brushed my lips to his. “No, it isn’t.”
He relaxed just the barest amount, as if giving in, and the collapse of the mages around us signaled that he’d listened.
Not that I planned to wait around for round two. Grant had shown his hand, but people did stupid things when they felt backed into the corner, and I wasn’t sure I could talk him down a second time. Instead, I braced my weight and shoved, sending us both sailing backward and into the portal.
And I was reminded…
I really hated portals.
