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It was Rumir.
With a flick of Rumir’s wings, Morana was sent crashing into a building.
“Rumir?” Natalie said, her voice shaking, contorted, and hoarse. Rumir stepped closer to her. Natalie's chaos shed from her body, and the real her returned. “Rumir?”
But something was off. He’d smacked his mother as if she was an insect, and what was with this armor? No, this wasn't the Rumir we knew.
I sent several ice daggers his way as I ran to put myself between him and Natalie. He held his hand up, releasing a wave of heat that melted them. When he laid a hand on Natalie's shoulder, she fell unconscious, and I used my telekinesis to try and get her away from him.
He threw Natalie, and Morana teleported in mid-air, catching her. But Rumir had taken the opportunity to remove one of his swords from his back and he threw it, too. It went through Morana’s stomach before she could teleport again, and she and Natalie fell from the sky.
What the hell!
“Rumir!" I shouted, and he blinked out of sight and appeared before me.
He grabbed me around my throat, and his finger pricked me at the back of my neck. Instantly, my body went limp, and my eyes blurred.
“Rumir,” I growled weakly. “What have you done?”
The mask covering his face peeled back. His eyes, usually bright green, were now crimson.
He growled and pulled me closer to his face.
“You’re coming with me,” he said. My eyes drifted past him to Morana and Natalie on the ground, lying among the dead, and everything went black.
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Natalie
My vision was blurry, my body aching and my head throbbing, but I could see Rumir’s golden armor as he walked over to his mother. She was lying a few meters away from me, his sword in her stomach.
The Goddess was holding the blade, calling for Rumir, and he wrapped his fingers around the hilt and yanked the sword free. Blood sprayed from the wound, and the Goddess whimpered as she rolled onto her side to face me.
Even with my blurred vision, I could tell she was shivering.
I couldn’t believe Rumir had just attacked us. What the hell had Cedric done to him?
My entire body was on fire from that damn transformation, but I couldn't focus on that. We weren’t in Urgron City anymore, since there was complete silence, and I could feel the rocky ground poking my body.
I had a feeling that wherever Rumir had taken us, Cedric would be making an appearance soon.
This thing Rumir was, this golden warrior, it wasn’t really him. I could still feel our mate bond, strong and steady, which meant, although he looked different and needed his ass kicked, my mate was somewhere under the armor.
When the shadows before my eyes lifted, I saw, with relief, that the Goddess’s wound was already healing. Her eyes were shining under her hood when she nodded, signaling that she was fine, and I groaned as I sat up.
Based on the thin air, we were high up, and in some kind of cave overlooking a vast mountainous land.
On the other side of me, Lucian was lying unconscious on the ground, and Rumir was standing behind him, watching me. There was no sight of the man I knew in his red stare. But I'd fix that.
“Rumir? What did you do to him?” I asked. “You can hear me, can’t you?”
He didn’t answer. He didn’t blink either.
Cedric had gotten to him. That monster had done something to my mate, but I couldn't act yet, not when I had no idea what was going on. Rumir had twice the strength he had before, and although he'd taken us by surprise, he'd just kicked our asses.
I couldn’t act recklessly right now.
“Rumir, where is Cedric?” I asked, and still, he said nothing, so I turned my attention to Lucian.
