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“No.” Still shaking my head. “If you think you killed your mother because you didn’t find her in time, Sin—”
“Not her. When my elemental magic first flared, I lost control of it a few times. The court accused me of killing.”
My vision grows blurry. “No. No…”
I can’t take this. Can’t believe it, of Sindri, of any of them. And I can’t… can’t take losing him.
But inevitably the door opens and Ophelia steps inside. She smiles and the sight of it is poison eating at my reason.
She walks into the room and gives a delighted little laugh. “What did I miss? Oh my, you all look so serious.”
I look away from her and back to my fae boy, pleading. “Sin, you got to fight this. Don’t go to her.”
“He doesn’t have to come to me,” Ophelia says, twirling a dark lock of hair around a finger. “I’ve come to him.”
“Sin,” I whisper.
His mouth tightens.
“What the hell do you want, Ophelia?” Ashton says.
“Not here for you, handsome, not yet, but for him.” She nods at Sindri, still smiling. “Like I said.”
“Sin, no…” I reach for him but a barrier stops me.Magic. “Sin.”
He doesn’t move from his seat on the armchair as she approaches him and runs a hand over his arm.
Pushing against her power isn’t doing anything, though I try. It’s like trying to shove a boulder out of the way. “Sin, you have to fight her spell.”
“Can’t. She’s wearing… my earring,” he hisses, his handsome face twisting.
Her expression changes. She walks to him and slaps him across the face. “Did I say you can talk?”
Blood runs down his lip from the rings she’s wearing. He grunts.
“That’s right, pet.” Her smile returns and she strokes his bruised cheek. It makes me jerk against the barrier, but it’s no use. “You’re mine now. Better stop fighting it and I will take away your pain. I promise. Now come with me. There are rituals to perform. So much to do before the Golden Moon, right, guys? Not long left to wait now.”
Ashton swears. “What do you mean?”
“You really are so behind, aren’t you?” She turns her cruel smile on my vampire boy. “I’m surprised you even know what it means. It’s the next full moon, of course, the first convergence in almost two hundred years.”
I meet Ashton’s horrified gaze and feel faint.Oh God…Time is running out, fast—faster than we thought. What do we do now?
26
MIA
We lost Sindri, too.
The worst was his awareness of it happening, the small defense he put up against it, giving us the time to talk to him a little, for him to tell us what the elders said.
I didn’t even have the chance to touch him.
Hold him.
And now I’m sitting in class, not knowing what the hell I’m doing here and what to do with myself. I’ve failed. Failed them.
Now it’s only me and Ash against her plans. And I still have no idea how to stop her.
