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She couldn’t let that power sweep him away.
She tugged him back.
Stay with me. Stay focused.
“I didn’t come to listen to you talk.” Isla firmed her grip on her sword. “You’ve already subjected me to enough of that. Where is she? You’re working with her, right?”
“Yes,” she said. “As it turns out, everything about you is true. I suppose I should be thanking you, Luna of Deimos.”
Isla scowled. “Thanking me for what?”
She readied herself as the witch took out a small blade and pressed it to her palm. She cut deep, crimson pooling and pouring onto the cracked Pack Hall stones. The earth trembled as a rush of wind swept through the forest, kicking up the foliage and sending Isla stumbling into Kai. Then came the mist, a blend of light and dark, that swirled around them, burning her skin. The scent of magic flooded her nose. Magic thatworked,infused with her blood, her essence.
A howl of pain rang out from behind her along with the sound of tearing flesh, but Isla had no time to see who’d been attacked.
Nothing could’ve prepared her for the plummet.
CHAPTER41
ISLA
Isla had been falling. Falling and falling and falling. Not literally, but it surely felt that way until she finally snapped into her own senses.
She righted herself, blinking her eyes against the soft glow of a lantern on a vanity she’d never seen before. Her body felt…unfamiliar. She had narrower hips, a tinier waist, and a certain weakness in her arms and legs.
“Saoirse!”
Isla spun.
No, no…she didn’t spin. And this hadn’t been her waving either, but she saw it through their eyes, felt it through their bones and blood.
Saoirse.
Not the white-haired, violet-eyed woman. Thankfully, Saoirse had glanced into the mirror before her, checking over her appearance. Her night-dark hair that gobbled up the light and chestnut eyes with a rim of gold that reminded Isla of the sun.
Saoirse.
The Luna of Phobos?
“Warrior Heart.”
“What the hell?” Isla whispered into this space that was, again, not a space. It was a chasm of darkness from which she watched life unfold before Saoirse’s eyes. Her ire flared. “Where are you?”
“Play the part,”the violet-eyed woman crooned.“Make it to me, and you will see.”
She couldn’t be here, couldn’t do this now. Her family were in trouble. That howl rang and rang and rang in her head. One of them had gotten hurt. One of them could’ve been dead.
“Where’s Kai?” Her voice echoed…echoed. “You said this involved both of us.”
“You will find him. As we always have.”
So, he was also caught in this spell. Relief and dread crashed through her. Everyone was facing the witch and her army without either of them.
Sebastian, Ameera, Rhydian, Magnus…
“I can’t do this now!” Isla shouted through the darkness, desperation scratching her voice. “I need to get back, and then I’ll listen to whatever you—”
“Play your part, and they’re fine. If you do not learn, if you do notseeandunderstand, thenis when they’ll all fall to ruin.”
