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“Fine. Whatever,” I barked. “I’ll do whatever you want. Take me to Elix and show me that’s she’s all right.”
“I want a blood oath,” Agnan told me, advancing.
Inwardly, I balked at the notion of acquiescing to such a demand. Offer to give my life unless I gave in to this terrorist’s demands? If anyone else had asked, I would kill them on sight.
But I would do it if that’s what it took to see Elix.
I drew my shoulders upward and towered over Agnan. “Not until I see Elix,” I spat.
The dark fae scowled. “You’re in no position to be making demands, Alpha.”
“Then you’re not getting what you want, Agnan.”
We glowered at one another, the fae’s eyes reeling as Agnan considered my ask.
“Fine,” he conceded. “You can see her. But then I want my blood oath.”
The words turned my blood to ice.
A blood oath? I’ll die if I don’t give him what he wants. There’ll be no revoking it when the blood is spilled between us.
Agnan, in Lysandra’s form, turned to march toward the stairs, and I stalked behind him, my own mind whirling.
I need to kill Agnan… but what will happen to Elix if I do?
Chapter 18
Elix
Faint whispers brought me around, the waft of unfamiliar surroundings rousing me from a painfully dark place.
“You see?” I heard my sister chirp. “She’s here and alive… for now. It’s time to give me your blood.”
“What’s wrong with her? What did you do to her, you bastard?!”
Jace!
Struggling against the pain in my head, I barely managed to open my eyes, my lids feeling glued shut as the last minutes flooded back to me.
In a haze, I made out the shadowy outlines of Jace and Lysandra, standing next to the bed in which I lay. His naked body, covered by a small blanket, visibly trembled with fury.
“Go!” I tried to mumble, but my tongue felt like it didn’t belong in my mouth. The invisible chains remained on my arms and legs, my head swimming as I tried to make sense of why Jace wasn’t overtaking my sister, who was so much smaller than him.
“She’s fine,” Lysandra laughed. “She has a little bonk on her head, is all.”
“Jace…” I rasped, and his head swung toward me. His blurry form moved toward me, but Lysandra stopped him.
“No!” she thundered in a voice I’d never heard before. “We had a deal!”
He froze in place, his hands inches from me as I again strained against my bonds, wooziness threatening to take me over.
“Jace, go…” I mumbled, fighting for clarity. Bit by bit, I regained my sight, the outline of Jace’s apprehensive face falling into view now as Lysandra smirked at him.
Why isn’t he moving? What is she doing to him?
“Okay, Agnan,” he agreed, and my mind almost exploded. The last thought I’d had before blacking out came flooding back in a torrent, and I remembered what I’d thought about my sister.
Agnan. Not Lysandra. That’s Agnan in there.
