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“Fuck,” I whispered before my knees buckled.
Viktor caught me in a nanosecond and had me in his arms the next.
“Since when have you been able to stop time?” he immediately questioned.
“Since when have YOU been able to stop time?” I countered back. “Because those bullets weren’t staying still on their own when I dropped my magic.”
He didn’t say a thing but he quickly leaned me against the wall while he used his free hand to support himself when he seemed to waver.
“Viktor?”
“Give me a sec,” he muttered and began to take deep inhales and let them out.
Shit. Is he okay?
“Time Manipulation Magic takes a lot out of a witch or wizard regardless of the level of experience,”Bria announced.“No matter if he’s a warlock, time magic still takes a toll which is why you’re just as tired.”
Maybe we’ll need someone else to drive?
I was tempted to contact Dimitris with an update, but I needed to know why I was able to use time magic.
“Viktor, why was I able to do that?” I pressed. “That’s the second time.”
He leaned back slightly to look down at me with his tired eyes. “Second?”
“Uh. I did it during my initiation thing.”
“Initiation for what?”
Oh. Maybe no one told him yet. Is it supposed to be a secret? Ah fuck. I probably blew it.
"Pretend I didn’t speak, and we’ll talk about this time voodoo later. Sounds good?”
“No,” he huffed as the elevator began to slow once again. “That doesn’t sound good at all.”
“Right. Rain check,” I pressed and gathered the strength to stand on my own. “Wait. Why hasn’t Dimitris checked in on us by now?”
“He…” Viktor was probably ready to brush him off, but it did seem suspicious because we were both in the pack and Dimitris would have sensed our drop in magic and question what was happening.
He’d even send for help or come down himself if he knew we were in a tricky situation. Seventy-plus stairs wouldn’t stop him.
With a ding, the doors of the elevator were opening yet again - just as the sound of a gunshot pierced the air.
Viktor literally had me over his shoulder in a blink and his gun out and pointing to the single threat on our right. With Viktor in fight-or-flight mode, he would shoot regardless of who stood there which was exactly why I panicked to the point that my words were laced with authority.
“Stand down!”
That stopped Viktor from pulling the trigger, the Alpha command forcing him to stay completely still while I slipped out of his grasp and moved in front of the path of the gun.
“Dimitris?”
I really had to question if that was our Alpha because there he stood with just his white dress shirt and pink suede suit pants. The jacket he’d worn when we left the house was missing in action, and his white shirt was not only wrinkled but covered with blotches of blood.
Not his own it seemed.
What made me question if it was him was the way his short, navy-blue strands were suddenly pure white with hints of pink and gold that illuminated in a mysterious way. His aura was overwhelming, its intensity so strong anyone would be forced to bow down and beg for mercy like he was a god.
The heaviness in the air made my legs tremble, but I fought through it just to take the few remaining steps that landed me in Dimitris’s line of sight.
