“There’s no such thing as magic, dammit,” Theo roared, and intertwined with his words were the sudden rushing of paws.
Rafe didn’t have to turn around to feel the pack gathering around, and he didn’t have to hear the howls of outrage and horror to know Thalia’s grandparents had neared.
He ignored them all, especially her family, and focused on Theo. “In the car, Thalia said something about your magic being bound to the elements. Can’t you tie her life to the Earth or something?” He was speaking bullshit and he knew it. Tie her life to the Earth? What the fuck did that even mean?
“What the hell happened?” Louis cried out, but the cocktail of emotions leaking from him was too much for Rafe’s senses to handle.
He could feel something changing with his Wolf, but he didn’t have the time to process it.
“Can’t you heal her, man?” Ade roared, jerking Rafe’s shoulder and half-dragging him from his perch in the soil at Thalia’s side.
“It’s a mercury bullet,” he said hoarsely, not taking his eyes from Theo.
“Mercury?” Matthew demanded, his voice a rasp. “The hunters knew we weren’t regular wolves.”
“How the fuck did humans make it onto a reserve like this anyway?” Theo snarled as he placed his hand on the wound.
Blood spilled from between his fingers, and Rafe couldn’t credit it that Thalia had been injured less in a hand-to-hand fight than she’d been with the single blink of an eye with a bullet.
“I don’t know,” Louis whispered, landing with a dull thud on the soil at Rafe’s side as he dropped to his knees. The greenery around them intruded, invading the area with a lush, fresh scent that just smelled wrong considering the gore that polluted the air.
“Rafe, I’m going to need your help.”
“To do what? I told you, I can’t do anything with mercury. If I touch it, it will burn us both and probably do her more damage. From looking at the wounds, I can see the mercury has metastasized onto her bones and is spreading its poison through the localized tissue before diffusing into the rest of her nervous system. I can try to cut it out but without the proper equipment…” He licked his lips, and using his gift, let the heat of his power swarm into Thalia’s system. Seeing the bullet’s trajectory in his mind’s eye, he calculated the risk. “I-I, maybe it’s an option,” he whispered, but his unease overwhelmed him.
He’d never done anything like this before. Never. But Thalia was dying. This was their only option, wasn’t it?
“There might be a way if we work together,” Theo whispered, his devastation bleeding into his voice.
For a second, Rafe stared at the other male and tried to imagine having lived twelve thousand years to find his mate and to lose her within days of meeting her.
The agony Rafe felt seemed childish, immature, by comparison, and though he felt gutted by the sight of a downed Thalia, he reached out his hand for Theo’s. The halo of light surrounding the male seemed to brighten at his touch. It had been dimming, almost as though with every ounce of lifeblood that spilled from Thalia’s veins, it poured from Theo’s too. Rafe’s touch changed that, swung the balance in the opposite direction.
Taking that as a positive sign, he threw himself at the mercy of the Goddess. Begged her and her mates, prayed and supplicated himself before them, as he hoped the man that was an angel in his great-grandmother’s religion had all the answers.
“What’s the plan?”
TO BE CONTINUED…
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I know. You hate me. I don’t blame you. Even I winced at that ending, but everything happens for a reason, and in October, when TRIAD releases, you’ll love me again because… Well, Thalia’s mates? They’re freakin’ hot. And I mean hot.
I’m in the middle of writing Triad as we speak; you guys know me by now. I don’t leave you hanging on purpose, or to be a bitch. I do it because I haven’t written the next book yet! Does that mean you forgive me? Just a smidgen? ;-)
If you’re not a part of my Diva’s reader group, the link is here: www.facebook.com/groups/SerenaAkeroydsDivas. I know some of you might not want to be in there, but I hold a lot of giveaways and also, you get updates on the books I’m writing. More so than you would with my newsletter, which I only use to promote releases. (You can sign up for that here: www.serenaakeroyd.com/Newsletter)
As always, thanks for being here, thanks for reading, and hope you’re psyched about the October release! I swear, Mikkel is gonna blow your mind, and Theo and Rafe? Well, expect your panties to melt!
Love
Serena <3
AND REMEMBER: Book three, TRIAD, coming October 2018!!
Other titles by Serena Akeroyd:
Kingdom of Veronia
Perry & Her Princes
Her Highness, Princess Perry
Long Live Queen Perry
QUINTESSENCE
Charmed by Them
Healed by Them
Worshipped by Them
Protected by Them
Loved by Them
Anchor Pride Series
Claimed by Caden
McKinnon’s Mate
The Sanguenna Chronicles
Christmas: Dragon Style
Valentine’s: Dragon Style
Three’s Never A Crowd
Old Enough to Know Better
The Federation
A Menage Made on Madison
Jayce Ventura – Ghost Detective Series
Ghost Detective
Ghost Avenger
La Belle sans La Bete Series
Menage Material
A Thoroughly Modern Menage
The Luck of Love Series
The Luck of Love
The Power of Love
The Strength of Love
The Depth of Love
The Triskele Prophesy
Trinity
Triskele (Coming September 2018)
Touched
The Raw Touch
Table of Contents
Triskele 1
1 12
2 16
3 38
4 66
5 78
6 100
7 120
8 178
9 197
10 220
11 228
12 252
13 279
14 297
15 311
16 328
TO BE CONTINUED… 340