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Wind whips through the air, reminding me of the death plane. Only it’s a different sensation. A different sort of power.

Daithi growls in response to it. “You.”

“Me,” a familiar voice says.

Ayla?I can barely think her name, the world around me disappearing.

Issy screams something in my mind.

Then a jolt of power hits me dead center, and my body goes flying backward into the air.

I blink awake, confused by the sharp pain encompassing my being and relieved by my sudden ability to breathe again. I cough and choke and grasp at nothing as I go sailing through time and space.

What is happening to me?My vision is slowly coming back to me.Why does it feel like I’m falling?

My legs and arms come alive at the same moment, my limbs flailing around me as I try to grasp at something to hold on to.

Fallon!my sister screams.

I try to look for her, but all I see is glass. And a night sky.

What…?

I blink again.

And then I shriek as I realize theglassis a wall of windows. On a building. A verytallbuilding. That I appear to be flying alongside of.

Not flying. Falling.

I glance down to see the ground rapidly approaching.

Oh, shit!

My arms and legs pinwheel as I try to lock onto the death plane again, needing to teleport, to do something. But there isn’t enough time!

Focus,I tell myself.Focus and—

I slam into a hard object, the impact making my head loll.Is this it? Did I just hit the ground?

A fall from that height should kill me.

The hint of minty aftershave tickles my nose as the sound of beating wings touches my ears.

Am I dead?

Because I swear I’m being held by an angel.

“I’ve got you, Fallon,” a deep voice says. “I’ll always catch you when you fall.”

CHAPTERTHIRTY-ONE

NOLAN

SEVERAL MINUTES EARLIER

“Where is she?”Kaspian demands as he steps through the portal. “Where’s Fallon?”

I shake my head. “Ayla still hasn’t been able to reconnect to her aura.” And it’s been hours since she could last sense her.