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“I asked if you noticed anything missing from this scenario,” I repeated.
His eyes began to dart around. “Not sure what you mean.”
“You haven’t wondered why it’s just the two of us here when I belong to a coven?” I posed, causing all three men to look at each other. “We’re outnumbered, yet no one from my coven is here to even out the odds. You don’t find that particularly curious?”
“What are you talking about?” Thomas asked, doubt lacing his every word.
“My coven isn’t here to even the odds because they don’t need to be evened,” I told them all. “The odds are already in our favor with what Mora can do.” Eyeing each man, I gave them one last chance. “So, I strongly suggest that you take that into consideration before making your next move. Olympia’s paranoid gossip is not worth dying for.”
“And if I were you, I wouldn’t underestimate us,” David said, doing his best to still look brave in front of his buddies.
“We’re not,” Mora told him. “We know exactly what you’re capable of.” She took a step closer to them and it took everything in me not to drag her back. “Just like I know exactly how this is going to end.”
“Even if you do kill us, there’s plenty more from where we came from,” Thomas said, but something told me that Mora was going to make a statement here tonight, and I felt sorry for anyone that came after these three fools.
Mora’s chin came up. “Which one of you is first?” You could hear the taunting tone in her voice when she added, “Or do you guys need to outnumber me? I mean, I can see you needing to outnumber Kalon and all, but three on one for little, ol’ me?”
“We don’t need to outnumber anyone,” Christopher lied.
That was my cue to step in front of Mora. “Then I’m ready,” I told him. “Because if you want her, then you’re going to have to go through me to get her.”
“You don’t scare us,” David spat. “We can take you.”
“Then what’s stopping you?” I mocked. “I’m right fucking here.”
David stepped forward, and even though I couldn’t see what Mora saw, I could feel how they weren’t going to play fair. David was going to try to distract me while the other two went after Mora, and if we were going to survive this, then we were going to have to trust each other completely. I was going to have to trust that Mora could take care of herself, regardless of how I’d been raised.
“You ready, baby?” I asked, stepping to stand next to her.
“I’m more than ready,” she replied, and something told me that she was.
Let the games begin.
Chapter 20
Mora~
As soon as David attacked Kalon, I was at Kalon’s back, making sure that the other two couldn’t take him by surprise. Even though we were all moving faster than the human eye could track, it didn’t feel that way. It felt like time had slowed down for this, and I could see each move that Thomas and Christopher were making clearly.
With all my concentration on Thomas and Christopher, I had to trust that Kalon could and would take care of David. The only problem was that I could see David’s moves at the same time that I could see Thomas and Christopher’s, and it was hard not to intervene or call out to Kalon. However, I knew in my heart of hearts that I needed to let Kalon do his thing if we were going to survive this.
With our backs to each other, Kalon and I fought blow for blow. I was able to dodge every strike that came my way because I could see it coming, but that wasn’t the case for Kalon. While I was fighting on the defensive, Kalon was fighting on the offensive, and I knew that we needed to make a huge move and soon. I could only dodge and weave for so long, and with none of us having the ability to tire, this could go on forever if we didn’t hurry up and kill them.
Just as I was about to put all my efforts into Thomas because he was bigger than Christopher, pain slashed through my chest like I was being torn in half. A fierce roar felt like it was being torn from my soul, and I didn’t need proof to know that Kalon had been hurt. The pain was excruciating enough to nearly cripple me, but everything changed when the pain fanned out to every nerve ending in my body.
“Oh, fuck,” Thomas cried out, but I was blind to everything around me.
The world around me stopped as I stared at my hands, every finger on fire. Fascinating orbs of live fire were dancing on my fingertips, but I couldn’t feel any heat. I didn’t feel any heat or burning sensation. My fingers were alit with blue and red flames, but I felt nothing. The only thing that I could feel was the pain in my chest from whatever had happened to Kalon.
The prophecy.
The prophecy claimed that I would set the world ablaze if anything ever happened to Kalon, and now I could see how. All along, the joke had been on me, but I’d been too stubborn to see it. Kalon had told me that I was magic, but I’d been too mad to give credit to anything that he’d said. Nevertheless, I’d still been under the impression that my ‘magic’ had been of the mental kind, not…notthis.
Christ on The Cross, I also knew that I’d never burn, and this was why I was safe from the sun.
Looking up, I saw all four men staring at me, the fight forgotten. Shock had them staring at me like I really was an abomination. Shock had them all staring at me, not knowing what to do with this newfound knowledge.
However,Istill knew what to do.
