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“Meredith!” I’d never tried to see something other than what someone wanted to show me. I needed her subconscious to wake up enough to show me what I needed to see. “Meredith! Listen to me!” I backed power in the command. “I need to see what happened. I need to know how you got cursed! Show me!”
Instead of seeing the light, the vision rewound. Everything happened in reverse until Donovan stood over her again. Then it replayed. The same heartbreaking scene.
Meredith was torturing herself.
“No! Meredith! Stop this!” I pulled more power through Dastien. “I need to know how to help you. Please, show me what Luciana did so that I can try to fix it.”
She turned, just a little, and looked at me.
“Focus, Meredith. What happened with the curse, Meredith? What did she do to you?”
The scene rewound.
Christ. This wasn’t working.
I watched it unfold again. I yelled at her. Throwing my power around, trying to get her to listen, but nothing worked.
Why was she showing it to me so many times? What was I missing?
When the scene unfolded for a third time, I got a little crazy. My wolf started rising as the need to change burned my skin. I felt power roll through me from my bond with Dastien. I knew it was meant to help stabilize me, but it gave me an idea.
I took it and threw his power at the vision. “Meredith! Stop it! I know he’s your mate, but we can’t get to him. We put out word, but he’s not back yet.”
I wasn’t sure if I should give up yet. She could hear me. I knew she could. She kept changing the scene every time I asked. But now she was stuck on this.
I had to try and reason with her. Sensing the pack beyond Dastien, I pulled even more power. “You’re so sick, Meredith. You’re going to die if I don’t find a way to stop this. I need you to show me what happened with Luciana. Please. Show me. I won’t judge you. I only want to help!”
“What’re ya yelling about?” I heard Donovan’s far away voice.
“Donovan?”
“Tessa?”
The same memory kept playing, but I could hear Donovan’s voice over it. Barely. “How?”
“Through the bond I have with my mate, but it’s a weak bond and can’t maintain this type of pack link for long. What are you doing in her memories? And why is she knocked out? Who drugged her?” Donovan’s voice was getting growly at the end.
I took a deep breath. Getting across the right bits of information was key. “She’s been sedated. Her wolf is awake and Meredith’s been cursed not to change, so her body’s fighting itself. We’re trying to find a way to break the curse, but I don’t know what to do. I need to know what happened, but she won’t show me.”
“That’s why she said she was broken. Shite. I woke her damned wolf up by poking at her. Why did no one tell me this? How could I not know?” He muttered the questions.
I grabbed more power and channeled it into the bond between Meredith and Donovan. “What do I do? Tell me what I can do to help.”
“I’m on my way back.”
“Where are you?”
“In the Andes.”
Middle-of-nowhere, Peru. It was going to take days for him to get back. “You’re too far. She won’t last. Can you make her show me what I need to see?”
“I wish I could, but I can’t. If she’s sleeping hard enough to not wake from what you’re pushing through her, then she’s been put in a stasis and I won’t bring her out of it. It’s what’s keeping her alive.” He was quiet for a moment.
Anxiety built in me. I pushed more power, hoping I wasn’t draining Dastien too much.
“Ach. I see. Thank God you’re there. I can’t fix this, but you can. It’s all you. And I might not get there in time to help you either. I’m running now, but it’ll take me a day to get to the city. I’ll be on the first flight out, but…Christ. I shouldn’t have left her.”
Donovan was taking too much time. I shoved more power at him. “Donovan! I don’t know what to do! How do I fix this?”
