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“Get away from her!” Leo yells out, the sudden lash of pain he’s feeling cutting me deep. As is his call for Uncle Roberto, begging them to stop whatever is happening. “Why are you doing this? I thought—”
A slap resounds, flesh meeting flesh, and he’s silenced. However, a maniacal laugh filters through, and it’s female.
Together, love. I’m with you.
Xadiel’s large wolf is beside me, his snout pushing my hand and giving a long lick to the palm. I’m blessed to have him.
Always, my Alpha.
No more words are exchanged as we rush inside, and I’ve never reacted in such a way. The ire from a few minutes ago is magnified, the thrum of sudden power in my veins—unlike my sight—shakes me to the core, and I meet the fae female’s eyes. The same bitch I’ve been searching for from the Evergreen manor, and this time, she’s standing over my brother while Roberto lies unconscious.
Her hand is up with a dagger in its grip, an opal hilt I recognize poised above Leo’s chest.
My baby brother. He’s a child.
The room shakes and things crash to the ground, mirrors and pictures, but I focus on her. I want her neck sliced open and blood marking this floor. Same way she bled my people. Same way she attempted to do with Leo.
I don’t see it coming, but Xadiel does. Somehow, he knows what I need and wraps his arms around me in support. His body fortifies mine—centers me—a second before I flick my eyes toward a large shard of glass and then back to her. The piece moves as if commanded, following my desires, and before the woman can jump back, it slashes her shoulder.
Close, but not enough. I want her jugular.
The next one hits her chin and cuts deep, the skin flayed open to the bone, and her scream makes me smile. So does the fact she dropped the perfect weapon, the knife Xadiel gifted Leo months ago.
“What the fuck?” Eyes wide, she stares at me as the scent of fear grows. “How is this even possible? He said you were the weak one.”
“Run.” One word. My only warning because the dagger shakes on the ground, rising slowly and I tilt my head, watching how it does the same. This is new, a gift I don’t know how to control, but I’m not afraid to embrace it.
Five. Four.
She frantically grabs a pouch from her waist and pours the contents onto the ground.
Three. Two.
A portal opens and she grab Roberto, starts to drag him closer.
One.
A flashing pain rips through me, right at the chest area, and the silver falls to the ground. This consumes me although I’m uninjured, the sudden bout of sorrow, and I feels as though I’ve been torn in two where I now kneel.
No! Gods, no!
I want to tell Xadiel to grab the woman, to not let her escape, but nothing comes out past the sob I’m choking on. I’m forced to watch through tears as the woman disappears with my uncle. I hear Leo’s scream. He too feels it now. So do those outside who wail, their yells drowning out the breaking of my heart.
“Gabriella.” She’s dead. I can feel it.
“Isa! The book!” Leo stumbles to me, gripping my face hard while my mate growls lowly. I know he’s distressed, not understanding what’s happening, but something about the urgency in my little brother’s expression snaps me into focus. “Dad left the book for this.”
And it hits me then. He also knew. Carries his own burdens and secrets.
“When?”
Leo nods while wiping my cheeks. “It’s what he whispered right before we ran that night. Someday she’ll need the book to save Gabby. Remind her when it happens.”
“It’s in my room. Can you grab it for me?”
“No. That’s what started this.” His eyes shift to a body on the ground. Our aunt is bleeding from her chest, stabbed, but the low rising lets me know she’s alive. Hurt, but still here. “Uncle Roberto grabbed it; he was putting it in his suitcase when they started arguing. That’s when the lady came, demanding it, and she hurt Aunt Silla.”
“Where is it now?”
