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I touched my hand to my neck where my wound had healed. Rory had saved my life. We were connected, bound together. I couldn’t just let her go.
Slowly, while I thought, I became aware of something else—a power that didn’t make sense. A power I hadn’t felt in a long, long time.
Dark magic.
I turned around and left the house, all but running to my car. I jumped in behind the wheel and peeled out of the driveway, tires squealing as I sped down the road. I could think of only one person who could help me with this. One person who would know what the next step should be.
“What’s going on, Bishop?” Sabrione asked when I arrived at her place. She lived in a home on Lake Minnetonka and opened the door before my car pulled up. She’d known I would be coming. Her red curls were pulled back into a ponytail, and she looked younger because of it.
“It’s dark magic,” I said. “Rory is gone, and I think it has to do with dark magic.”
When I walked closer to Sabrione, she took a step away from me, bouncing back, recoiling from me.
“What?” I asked.
“The dark magic. I can feel it on you.”
My chest tightened. “It’s not me.”
“It’s through the bond,” Sabrione said. She looked horrified. “Wherever Rory is, she’s surrounded by it.”
“You can feel the bond?” I asked.
“Can’t you?”
I shook my head.
“Come on,” Sabrione said, and I stepped into her home. It was small but quaint and well decorated. I’d never been inside before. I always stayed outside when I needed to find her here.
Sabrione put a kettle on the burner and prepared a cup with strange leaves from a pot.
“What’s that?” I asked.
“It’s an herbal tea that will let you find her,” Sabrione said. “She’s hidden in the dark magic, but with this, maybe you can see through the darkness.”
I watched Sabrione make tea without taking much in. Fear had crept up on me and threatened to strangle me. I’d lost too much to dark magic before, and I’d vowed I would never let this happen again. I’d vowed I would never love again after Aster. That part had already failed, and now the dark magic was back. How had this happened?
The kettle whistled, and Sabrione poured hot water into the cup before handing it to me.
“Drink it, and when you’re done, we’ll look at the leaves. Maybe we’ll find an answer there, too.”
I didn’t know how all this magic that the fae wielded worked.
I took the tea and sipped it. It tasted like shit.
I drank it, though. I trusted Sabrione with my life.
When the tea was gone—every last disgusting drop—I handed the cup back to Sabrione.
“If I’d let Alina put the spell on me, I would have been strong enough to do this,” I said dully. “I just couldn’t give her up.”
Sabrione took the cup and looked at the leaves. She frowned, and then she paled.
“What?” I questioned. “What do you see?”
“I see darkness,” she answered. “So much of it. Right in your inner circle, right up close and personal.”
“What does that mean?”
