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“I should wait out here for Tianna,” I said to the forest spirits, “and battle her if she dares to harm you.”
We’ll be more useful to you if she doesn’t perceive our alliance to you,our queen, said the spirits.And there’s something important we’ve wanted to show you. Now it’s time. Only you, your mate, and your most trusted companions shall go there and see the truth.
“What is it?” I asked.
The power that makes our enemy invincible, the spirits said.The power that allowed her to defeat and kill your mother, the sweetest Fae princess Aine, and their loyal sentinels.
Go now!
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Elvey teleported Rosalinda, Adrian, Zembyr, and me to the mapped location the forest spirits had shown him. Jarrod had returned to the Dragon Realm to coordinate our army’s move.
As my dizziness from the teleportation faded, I noticed that we had landed in the ruins of half wilderness and half grassy land.
“This is the closest my teleportation can take us,” Elvey whispered beside me, his arm sneaking around my waist protectively. “Dark magic wards the place, and we’re right outside its barrier.”
The wind didn’t stir here, and the stillness of the air was eerie. The air smelled putrid, and I sensed great evil moving beneath the soil and rocks.
My companions all tensed as tight as the strings on a bow. They had also felt the malevolence. Each of them drew their swords.
Elvey glanced at them and nodded. “Ready for battle.”
Zembyr darted his stern eyes wildly.
“You won’t need to look further.” Elvey said with a smirk, as if we were going to a festival. “They’ll show, and soon.”
“What is this place?” I asked quietly.
“The Breath of the Wild,” Elvey said. “I have been trying to find it for a while, but it’s been concealed. Without the help of the forest guardians, we would never have found it.”
I raised my gaze toward a gray, stone temple in the distance. That should be our destination since it was the only structure in the wilderness. It was where the spirits wanted us to dig out Tianna’s secrets.
“Let’s move,” I said.
Zembyr charged ahead, and something slammed into him, sending him flying several yards backward. The giant warrior sprawled on the rocky ground on his back. He groaned in outrage and cursed as he sat up.
“As I said, it is warded,” Elvey said.
Without a word, I threw my hands up and flung my White Light at the unseen ward.
A black net materialized and flashed dots at the assault of my Light. And that was that.
“Interesting,” Elvey pondered. “The ward shouldn’t have withstood my wife’s attack since she’s the queen of the realm. And yet—”
My heart fluttered in wings. I loved hearing the word “wife” come from his lips. And officially, I’d only been his wife for a few minutes.
He narrowed his eyes. “It’s made of a mix of Fae and demonic magic.”
A light hit home. That was where the tainted foul odor was coming from. That was why the Forbidden Forest was sick. Tianna had infested the land with her black magic that had demonic elements in it. She associated with the demons. She’d sent a demon army after me twice.
No, it was more than associating. Her smoke magic came from demon’s heritage. My grandfather had warned me that Tianna practiced all sorts of forbidden dark magic. And the forest spirits’ warning rang in my ear. “Be aware of the double faces and two foulest entities in one.”
Which meant Tianna was an agent of both Fae and demon. Could she be possessed by a powerful demon?
“Little wife,” Elvey said, “we need to combine our forces. We aren’t just mate bonded. We’ve been blood bonded in a sacred rite. What’s mine is yours, as what’s yours is mine.”
He spun me around, my back against his chest, our fingers linked.
