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“Lox was just playing tricks. He’d not have let you actually be hurt.”
“The big lug at your side could have handled the hit,” Lox adds with a cheeky grin. He offers me his hand, and enthusiastically shakes mine when I meet it.
“Who the fuck let you in here?” someone demands, storming over to us. He’s got shaggy red hair that blocks off his face, but he’s taller than both Etrix and Lox, and extremely bulky.
There’s an angry energy surrounding him, his soul singing in pain, as he storms toward my mate.
“Wait, Gri—” Lox starts, but it’s too late.
Etrix pushes me away, causing me to lose my footing as the beast of a man attacks him. He pummels his stomach, Etrix grunting as he bends over, and the man kicks him and knocks him to the ground.
It takes only a second for my magicae to realise this is atruethreat, unlike Lox’s pretend one, and it bursts out of me. But rather than let it act on its own accord, I decide to do it myself.
“Tutela!” I shout, jumping to my feet. Lox looks at me in surprise, but I ignore him. I pull my magicae into me, grateful that with the tension in the air it’s a mix of colours, as I glare at the man touching Etrix.
He drops my mate in surprise, my words startling him, and looks at me in pure agony.
I can hear the thoughts in his mind, listening to the anguish as he mourns the loss of his friend. He’s heaving, struggling to claim a normal breath, as his hooded dark green eyes lock onto me.
His strong jawline and high cheekbones make him kind of attractive, you know, if you’re not intimidated by his size and aggressive nature.
“I’m sorry,” I say, stepping forward nervously. I keep my magicae close, and ignore all of the eyes around us. “You’re in pain, I know, but you can’t hurt Etrix.”
“He killed her!” he roars, and that’s when I realise exactly who hisfriendwas. He stamps on Etrix, knocking him unconscious despite my spell to protect Etrix, and I gape in complete shock.
This man thinks Etrix is responsible for the death of hisanima nexum.
Oh no.
“Tell him I’m here,” a woman says, and I blink in surprise as she appears in front of me in a gold light. That’s what gives her away as being a ghost because, for a second, I thought she was light travelling here.
She’s short, like me, with a cute pixie hair cut. She’s slim, and clutching a chicken teddy bear to her chest, and when I meet her eyes, her gorgeous blue eyes, I can see the tears in them.
She’s devastated, and I know why.
This is a horrible situation.
“Your mate is here,” I say, and the man growls as he summons a fireball. There’s a synchronised gasp from the crowd we’ve gathered, but they’re not my issue.
Even if all the eyes on me are making me nervous.
“Tell him Bella says hello,” the woman says, the urgency causing me to listen to her. “I promise, it’ll get him to calm down.”
“She wants me to tell you that Bella says hello,” I say, my voice shaking as the fireball suddenly disintegrates and his eyes seem to darken a little more. He steps forward, and I cringe but hold my positioning.
I need to calm him down so I can get Etrix out of here.
Etrix might trust these people, but I don’t know them, and not a single person has stepped in to help me.
I’m all that Etrix has got.
“What did you just say?” he demands.
“Remind him of his promise,” the woman says, clutching her chicken tighter as her fearful eyes dart between heranima nexumand me.
“She says… she says to remind you of your promise,” I whisper, pleading with her to help me calm him down.
I don’t have that right, not when she’s dead and deserves her peace, but I can’t let myanima nexumbe harmed because hers is on the warpath.
