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“Wait for us! Tobias, you need to come to get me. I am too low to portal,” Darius says.
“On my way, I mean it, Thomas, stay put,” the phone cuts out, leaving Thomas and Darius on the phone call only. More screams sound, and it must have been when I escaped the first lot. I had burned so much power that night trying to escape them.
“Fuck, Darius.”
“Wait,” Darius tells him. “It might not even be her.”
“I know it is.”
“You don't know that,” Darius tells him.
“She is right there, Darius. I can feel her power. She is…” The phone cuts out for a second, and Darius looks at his hellhounds and their location of Thomas.
Darius tries to open a portal, but it falters dangerously. If he steps through it and loses the power, he could be lost between realms. He curses at the transparent matter flickers before looking at his hellhounds.
“Find her and kill anyone with her,” he snaps at his hellhounds, and they leap through the portal, yet when he glances back at the phone.
“Thomas, I sent some hounds to her,” he says, but Thomas is gone. The phone is dead, and he tries to call him back but gets no answer. He tries to ring Tobias, but no answer as he then tries to open another portal as panic sets in.
“You knew he went after me,” I whisper to Darius as he watches himself panic, burning his magic out further until Tobias finally reaches him. His hands latch onto Tobias in panic, tossing him back through the portal. And I find myself back in the parking lot where it all happened. He lets out a haunting, blood-curdling scream when he sees his brother’s body.
“The hellhounds that killed him were yours,” I whisper, and Darius nods his head, squeezing my arms.
Darius, eyes scanned around for his hellhounds, finding them slaughtered and their body parts strewn across the pavement. I swallow as Tobias collapses beside his brother, trying to revive him. Wailing loudly, clutching his brother to him, whose body is torn apart.
Darius moves me closer to them and points to theAwritten in his own blood beside his body. My brows furrow.
“You thought he meant me.”
“We thought it meant you abandoned him,” Darius whispers.
“But I didn't. He tossed me through the portal.”
“I know. Those woods surround Astrid,” he murmurs.
“Astrid?” I ask him.
“Yes, Astrid. Home, Aleera. That is the name of the demonic kingdom, the castle. You were at home. We just had to go home,” Darius murmurs as he walks over to one of his torn-apart hellhounds on the ground.
“The fae you looked at in your memory,” Darius tells me as he turns around, looking at the scenery surrounding us in the memory.
“Yes, something felt familiar about them,” I tell him as I watch Tobias break while Darius tries to pull him off his brother.
“That's because she was your mother,” Darius tells me, and I gasp, spinning to face him. I shake my head at him. “The fae chasing you were power hunters, the same ones that came to the castle the other day.”
“No, my mother is dead.”
“You know she isn't, and that is why you faltered, she felt familiar, and that's because she shares your blood.”
The casted bubble fizzles around us as we are brought back to the present. I stare at Darius, his hand still gripping my arms and mine his.
“Tobias doesn't know,” I tell him, and he shakes his head.
“I killed his brother,” says Darius. I shake my head.
“Not intentionally, but I did,” Darius tells me, letting me go. I clench my teeth. My mind goes back to the memory where I stood stunned for those crucial moments as I stared at that hooded figure.
“You didn't kill Thomas, Darius.”
