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“Xavier, Remmus, you’re with me,” came Nina’s command. “Mere, Celeste, you will stay here with our people. Isaiah and I will perform remote teleports on site to move Luc’s people to safety. That is our only option now.”
Nervous anticipation settled into Blair’s features as she gripped Kaien’s hand. “Please take care of them.”
“You’ll be vulnerable if you mass teleport, especially remotely.” Kaien pushed up to a sitting position, ignoring the agony that poured over him with the movement. “You’ll need protection.”
“Remmus and Xavier will be there, brother,” Nina’s eyes flashed in warning, “as will Isaiah and Nero. You and Blair will stay here.”
When Kaien opened his mouth to refute her statement, she disappeared, teleporting away with Remmus and Xavier, Nero hot on their heels.
Cold fury iced through him at the cutting refusal. Kaien was her regent; he was her twin. If anyone should be protecting her, it should be him. Especially now, when there were so many lives on the line, and he’d done nothing but make the situation worse.
And when he caught Blair’s eyes, he knew she shared the same anger at being left behind.
“Lay back, Kaien,” Luna demanded. “You’re nowhere close to being healed yet, you brute.”
Grating his teeth together, he shot the other healer a dark glare and refused to lie prone. “I need to follow my sovereign.”
Celeste threw herself onto the sofa next to where Kaien sat, her violet lipstick twisting into a comical line as she gazed down at him. “Silly man. You can’t even teleport. Too much silver makes Kaien a dull boy.”
Frowning, Kaien turned inward to take stock of his psychic abilities and verify the statement. Much to his surprise, he discovered that hecouldteleport at present, thanks in large part to the trio of healers continuing to mend his ailments. It’d hurt, that much was true. In fact, it’d be downright agonizing. But he could do it if he had to.
And right now, his twin needed him whether she knew it or not.
Kaien’s eyes connected with Blair’s, an understanding linking them before her hand came to rest delicately on his shoulder.
“Whoever said I couldn’t teleport?”
Dizziness transformed to nausea with breathtaking immediacy as their feet hit the ground in a war zone. Cries of outrage shrieked through the air as gunfire pinged around them, the sizzle of burning flesh and gunpowder thick against the darkened skies.
Ignoring the agony that continually spiked through every cell of his body, Kaien manifested two katanas in his hand and shoved the second toward Blair. The vampire, instinctively getting a feel for the region and crouching defensively, grabbed the blade from Kaien and pivoted to face him.
“Stay alive, Kaien.”
“Same to you, kitten.”
Kaien’s free hand coiled around her waist and dragged her toward him. His kiss was demanding, passionate, and hard, offering her no quarter even as the world churned chaotically around them. Growling at the taste of her lips, he released her to see a feral wildness in her eyes.
“I’ve only just won you.”
With a seductive smirk, Blair leapt into action and charged headlong into the front lines. Though his long-ingrained habits nagged at him to find Nina, Kaien refrained, following the new instincts of his soul and turning instead to follow Blair.
Masses of supernaturals and mercenaries were in combat around him, the conflict raging before Kaien and Blair’s arrival. He spotted Lucius only a short distance away. Blood soaked his shirt from a visible gash, but the flesh wound didn’t deter the male from battle. Beside him was Derikles, Isaiah’s second in command, wielding dual blades.
Both males were protecting Isaiah, who stood legs braced apart and eyes closed, teleporting vampire civilians out of danger in massive remote teleports. The sheer amount of kinetic energy that flooded against Kaien’s psychic senses was nearly palpable, a barrage of sensation that bit into his already thready concentration.
A second later, another Raeth teleported protectively in front of Isaiah, clearly providing much needed backup. Satisfied with Isaiah’s defense, his eyes traced through the rest of the battered field of combat, near instantly locating Nina by her psychic signature alone.
Much like Isaiah, her eyes were closed in concentration as she continuously remote teleported Lucius’ House to safety.
Through their connection, Kaien drilled into the massive utilization of energy his twin was expelling. Both her and Isaiah’s psychic reservoirs ran deep, but it’d quickly deplete under the stress of their mission. A stab of trepidation coursed through him at the unavoidable aftermath, but he couldn’t dwell.
In front of her were Remmus and Xavier, the pair slicing through any mercenary that got too close. Both wore their bloody clothes like a badge of honor.
Neither he nor Blair could afford to split their attention, doggedly slicing through any human mercenary that dared come close. The bite of a bullet penetrated his thigh and sliced out the other side, but he barely felt the pain through the adrenaline that pumped through his veins.
As they continued through the field, fighting side by side, he and Blair shifted with the tide of battle. Having cleared a gap between the oncoming force and the sovereigns, they soon found themselves beside his battered clansmen. Both offered them welcoming smiles while they continued to strike at opponents, cheerful amid chaos.
“Took you long enough, Kai,” Remmus yelled over the commotion around them. “You’re a little late to the party.”
