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Made him.
Kai was going to be sick.
Aneurin squinted, seeing something beyond the glass, and Kai felt, despite the power, whatever this was frightening him—reachingfor him.
Aneurin jerked back, and Kai felt the power pulling as if something else were trying to control his strings.
The Alpha of Phobos spun, facing his kin on the brink of asphyxiation. He released Orin and casually sat back in his seat as the Alpha of Deimos slumped in his chair, his face beet-red as he clawed at his chest for air.
“It's a shame the gift didn't pass to us both. We could've returned our bloodline to its former glory. A powerful Ares once again. I don't know why our forefathers even split it.”
He sniffed the air, scrunching his nose.
Orin had pissed himself.
He let out a deep sigh as he slid a piece of parchment across his desk with a quill. “Now, you're going to write a letter for me, and then we're going to make a public address.”
CHAPTER45
ISLA
Saoirse was dreaming, meaning Isla was dreaming, and that she understood it all. Saoirse’s slumber was filled with death, blood, and a war-torn landscape that had not become a far cry from their reality.
Phobos’s northern city was in shambles, a consequence of a long-fought battle, an attack by Io and their allies of the north. But that didn’t matter to Aneurin, her alpha, her mate, because his armies had conquered and destroyed parts of Oberon, parts of Callisto, and parts of Ganymede were in such ruin, no one thought they would recover. All on his march to Io’s doorstep.
She hadn’t seen him in nearly six months now, and the man she did glimpse had become a shell of whomever he’d once been. As if the possession of a power as great as his had feasted on him from the inside.
He was unstoppable,unbreakable. The world had gone dark as chaos reigned. No one could touch him. Even his allies, his own soldiers, had been frightened by the breadth of what he was so much so that they attempted assassinations. A fool’s game, when he’d tear through their minds the moment the thoughts passed.
But—he was doing all of this for them. He wasn’t trying to take more than he thought they were owed. He wasn’t doing anything he didn’t think would help protect his family, their family, from the person he perceived as a monster.
He still loved her. Though, in that cold way he did.He was still her mate.
“Saoirse.”
Isla was stunned when the words in that woman’s voice had not been “Warrior Heart.”
“No!” Saoirse shouted, suddenly right beside Isla, though she didn’t acknowledge her as the dark winds ripped around them. “I won't do it. I won’t.”
Won’t do what?Isla thought, lifting her hand to shield her eyes, even though it meant nothing here.
“He's my mate!” Saoirse screamed, sobbing. “It can’t be me.”
Finally, the woman appeared, and like Saoirse, she didn’t acknowledge Isla, simply remained focused on the broken luna, nearly ready to go to her knees.
“That is why it can only be you,” the violet-eyed woman said. “Onlyyoushare his power; onlyyoucan get through his defenses. Everyone else has tried and failed, and he will destroyeverythingunless stopped.”
Isla suddenly found it hard to breathe as something sparked in her: a conclusion so horrendous it nearly made her vomit.
That couldn’t have been what this was.
“Even if he showed repentance, remorse, the power would not allow him to do it to himself.Theywould not allow it. It can only be you,” the woman said.
Isla stumbled back, looking between the two women, clarity ringing like a bell.
But, no.
No, no, no.
