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The words of the ancient elemental in the tree echoed in the back chambers of my head.Such an abomination... You’re an impossible breed.
I was never supposed to exist, but somehow I’d been conceived and born into the world.
And now nature was going to correct its mistake and unmake me.
“No, Marigold! You must hang in there,” Zak cried out, slapping at my fire in an attempt to draw it to him.
The fire ignored him and kept feeding from me.
I’ve just found you. You can’t leave me,” Zak called as I faded in and out of his arms. He turned his head to Theodore and shouted with all the menace in the world. “You’re supposed to be an expert on Olympian powers. Come up with a solution, or you die.”
I collapsed against his chest when I regained my solid form for a moment.
“I want you, Zak,” I sniveled.
My magical flame sapped me, but the other flame between my thighs also consumed me, raising a carnal need in me, even though I was being unmade.
In my last moments, my need to mate with this demigod only increased.
“The problem is that her power might not come from the Olympian gods,” Theodore said in awe. “It doesn’t seem possible, but she might be beyond the Olympians.”
It no longer mattered what I was. I wouldn’t make it. I was being broken apart, cell by cell.
My ghostly form slipped through Zak’s embrace.
Out of his wits, Zak infused his lightning into me. I turned solid at the energy feed.
It wouldn’t last, though. My fire drew more energy from me than he could supply. But while I lasted, I needed to get my last words out.
“Tell Héctor, Axel, Yelena, Nat, and my old pack Jasper and Circe in the Other Academy that I said goodbye. Tell them I went out fast and I didn’t suffer. Tell them to live long and prosper.” I tried to make a gesture like Spock did from Star Trek, but my fingers turned transparent at the moment I raised my hand.
“I won’t let you die, Rosebud,” Zak said furiously as he kept pouring his lightning energy into me.
And then another energy source joined him— storm, dark and delicious. It came from the Demigod of Sea.
I didn’t want his fucking power. I would rather die—
But my body took them both in greedily, and my back arched at the satisfied sensation of the feeding.
“You’re only prolonging the inevitable, Zak,” I whispered. “I’ll drain you, too. Now let me go. There’s no need to go down with a sinking ship.”
“I’ll never let you go,” he said and kissed me.
Lightning rolled down my throat from his tongue.
Paxton sent another wave of his life force into me.
“I heard a theory. The only way to truly sate a primary, powerful goddess is through mating,” Theodore murmured. “She feeds while she mates, and the hunger stops...”
“Take her to our apartment, Zak,” Paxton said urgently. “She needs to feed in another fashion if we want to keep her alive.”
Zak grabbed me to him and teleported.
