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“Princes.” My voice shook. “Return tome.”
I lowered my palms into the water and a golden charge sparked. At once, the jagged lines of magic shot outward, grasping the shifters in its hold, and the bright light streamed out of the bath, racing across the yard in every direction as far as I could see at lightningspeed.
A violent current pulsed through me, and I convulsed, my nerves shuddering. My vision darkened. For once, it wasn’t fear that embraced me. That was a most welcomechange.
* * *
Cold water lapped against me,and someone was shaking myshoulder.
“Is sheawake?”
The world revolved as memories slammed through me. I snapped open myeyes.
Four princes looked down at me, each with dread in their gazes. Behind them the sun shone, giving them a halo glow… had we all died and now awoke in theafterlife?
The lump in my throat swelled at seeing the men who filled me with life. The earlier darkness had vanished and now a flicker of hope swept through my mind. I hadn’t lost myshifters.
Leven collected me into his arms out of the freezing water. “You’re alive,sugarplum.”
I rubbed my eyes and scanned the castle grounds. The Terra guards who’d attacked the castle last night were groaning and pulling themselves up, as if they hadn’t been injured orbeaten.
“No one’s dead!” I stated. The energy that shot out from me healed them completely just as it had myprinces?
Confusion knotted through me, and I stared over at Talin’s stomach. “Your stabbing injury. It’shealed!”
He ran a hand across his skin where he’d been stabbed. “I’ve never felt stronger.” His widening lips beamed. “This is incredible. Bee, you savedus.”
Talin reached over and guided hair off my face, his warm touch reminding me the world swarmed with possibilities. And I had a full life ahead ofme.
“The spell worked on everyone? Including the guards?” I was convinced any moment now Lilita would pop up and scream,fooled you.But I remembered merging with her, binding our magic. And now I was whole, as if all these years, I’d been living as half aperson.
“Sure hope so,” Raze said. “Otherwise, we’ve all become the undead.” He chuckled, and I adored that sound more thananything.
My gaze settled on my princes, and I couldn’t resist smiling and falling into a happiness I hadn’t felt since I lostMom.
Raze nudged Ash, and they laughed. The heaviness from my shoulders hadvanished.
Once we were out of the tub, Leven lowered me to my feet and all four men towered over me, alive, healthy, and sexy asever.
“I don’t know how you did it,” Ash said. “But I feel strong enough to lift the entirecastle.”
Talin slid his hand into mine. “We owe you our lives. Anything you want isyours.”
I grinned and stared from one shifter to the other. “I know exactly what I desire.” Chewing on my cheek, I lifted my chin and said, “All ofyou.”
Raze leaned closer and pushed aside a strand of my hair caught in my eyelashes. “That was already a given.Right?”
“Yep, that was my understanding,” Ashadded.
Leven slouched, his hands gripping his hips. “You would have major problems trying to leave usbehind.”
Talin kissed my brow. “You belong to us and we are yours. We almost died, and I won’t waste another moment waiting to take what’smine.”
All the princesnodded.
Hope beaded within me, and a radiating sensation soothed me from head to toe. Lightness burst through my heart. Maybe it was the excitement over the fact that I hadn’t lost my future and had gained more than I’d ever thought I deserved. I smiled so hard, it hurt mycheeks.
“You don’t know how much I’ve waited to hear you say those words.” They meant the world, and finally I’d get to live a life without always worrying about unleashing mydarkness.
