“No shit.”
“And don’t leave her alone ever. She—”But before I can tell him, I vanish into the void.
I’m falling. The world is spinning rapidly around me. I’ve never experienced anything like it. Nausea curls in my belly, and I think I’m going to be sick, when suddenly the world stops spinning. I hit the ground hard. Unable to brace my fall with my arms still tied behind my back.
“Welcome to the Moonfire coven. I hope you enjoy your stay, vampire.”
Chapter 26
Ambrose
Lumi runs.
She runs like she can save him. Like she can stop Isolde from using her magic to take him from her. For a second, I think she’s going to defy all odds and be fast enough. Somehow grab onto him before Isolde takes him.
But then they’re gone. Vanished in the blink of an eye. And instead of grabbing Nyx, she grabs onto thin air. Even then, she doesn’t give up. It’s like she can’t.
“He’s gone,” I whisper, like I think she needs to hear the words to accept it.
“No. We go after him. Isolde and her coven don’t get to take him from me that easily.”
“She won’t kill him. She knows how much he means to her. He’ll use her to ensure that you complete the marking ceremony for the witches next full moon. You have plenty of time to save him,” I say.
“And in the meantime, they’ll torture him. I don’t know what he’s been through in the past, but I know that he’s been tortured before. I’m not going to let him endure that again.”
“You don’t have a choice. The only way to save him now is to figure out how to break the curses.”
“It’s my fault,” Amora says, staring at the empty space like she can’t believe he’s gone either.
Lumi snaps her head in her direction. “It is,” she growls, and any love between them vanishes in a second.
“Lumi,” I caution.
“It is her fault. If she hadn’t been stupid enough to wander the woods by herself, then she would have never gotten captured, and Nyx wouldn’t have had to rescue her,” Lumi says.
Amora looks back at her. “I know. I’m sorry. You aren’t the only one who’s scared for him. You’re not the only one who loves him!” She points to the others who have shown up too late.
Vampires, pack members, Bloodmoon, Moonlight. All here, watching this spectacle.
Lumi and Amora stare at each other eye to eye. I’m not sure who will back down first, just that I have to keep Lumi safe. I know she still loves Nyx despite Amora. She’ll always love him. She may have said it to me first, but Nyx was her true first love. The one who showed her what being in love really felt like. She’ll never stop loving him.
But I’ll be her true love. Her forever love. I just have to get her to fall in love with me. And hate her. Then we can have our happily ever after.
I look at Amora—at the rest of the vampires and Bloodmoon pack.
“I’m going to get him back,” Lumi says.
I grab Lumi’s arm. “You’re not.”
“I am—and if you try to stop me, I’ll never have a chance to fall in love with you. I don’t care if you’re my mate or not.”
“I’m not saying you can’t help with the planning of a rescue plan. We should rescue Nyx despite his stubborn ass not wanting that. But you should let his mate, his pack, his vampire coven be the ones to rescue him. You are the key to everyone’ssalvation. You can’t be captured. You can’t die. If you do, all of this will be for nothing,” I remind her.
“He’s right. I’m his mate. I should go,” Amora says.
“You’ll just end up getting captured again,” Lumi says.
Amora scoffs. “You just had a magical knife held against your throat by an invisible force that I had to save you from. So yes, I’m fully capable of rescuing others.”