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Chapter thirty-four

Roisin

B randon finally made good on his hours-long loving session. My body was limp from all the orgasms he’d given me. A blush heated my cheeks as we met my family for breakfast. I still blushed when Brandon and I walked from the Veil back into the enclosed garden of the Fellowship.

I was probably still blushing now as we stood waiting for the cue to heal the Earth.

Pepper had made us small stones each that would glow at the same time, so we would all comprehend when to feed our powers into the Earth.

Brandon’s mother hovered nervously near us, as did his grandfather and the rest of the Fellowship.

We ended up picking the power points. Places we recognized were great power.

Saoirse and Briana were in Crystal Creek with their mates standing by for support at the waterfall where Saoirse had given birth .

Me and Aislinn were here in Ireland in the spring with Brandon and Fallon as our support.

Rian and Ciara with Sophia and Malachi were at the Amazon River near the jaguar shifter colony.

Lorcan and Father with Pepper and Mother were at the old Water Sprite Everglades where Lorcan had killed the last living Trapper.

Four points where powerful magic lived to help us in our quest to save Earth.

Nervous energy zinged through my hands. It was as though my power comprehended it was about to do something great. Something so magical it hungered for it.

“Do you sense it building?” I whispered to Aislinn.

“Aye,” she said, twirling a dagger around her fingers.

The stone glowed a bright green like a cat’s eye.

Aislinn nodded at me and sheathed the dagger. We kneeled and placed our hands on the ground. Our power flared, lighting our hands. I pushed it forward into the soil. Into the very essence of the Earth. On and on I sent my power forward, but it wasn’t working like I thought it would.

“Brandon?”

“What do you need?”

“You. I need you.”

He kneeled in front of me and placed his hands on top of mine. His hands flared bright with his power and sent that extra bit of magic the Earth needed.

Fallon copied Brandon and placed his palms over Aislinn’s hands. She lifted her head and smiled at him .

“It’s working.”

“It is!”

The Earth sucked our powers into it like a sponge taking all that we offered and as it healed and mended to its former self, it kept taking.

Taking and taking.

Draining us.

If we didn’t break the connection, the Earth would drain us dry. Punish us for leaving it to suffer without our aid.

I tried yanking my hands away, but they wouldn’t move.

“Aislinn, can you stop?” I asked, trying to keep the panic out of my voice but failing.

“No.” She scowled.

“What do we do?” I stared into Brandon’s face.

I couldn’t have him make me his for us to end now. Would draining our powers kill us? Whatever the Earth was doing, it was putting a strain on us. All my muscles were sore. Sweat dripped from my forehead.

“I can’t stop either.” I stared at the glowing stone. Was my entire family in the same predicament? Had my idea sent us to our demise?

And then a pair of arms were lifting me from the ground. Big arms with taloned fingers broke the connection. I looked up and up into the concerned eyes of the Beast.

“We will not lose our family now we’ve just found you.”

My power stopped flowing to my hands. “My sister. ”

He placed me on the ground, and I rushed over to Brandon, who was sitting dazedly on the ground, staring at his hands.

The Beast picked my sister off the ground and severed her connection, too. Aislinn looked ready to grab one of her daggers and stab him, so I scrambled to my feet.

“He’s family,” I said as the Beast lowered her to the ground.

“What about everyone else? We have to stop them.”

The Beast smirked. “No need. We’ve got it covered. Rex is with your father. Tay is with your other siblings, and Thea is with the rest. They’re already on their way here.”

“Thank you.” I hugged the hulking demon.

He patted my back gently. “Time for another party?”

“No,” Brandon said, coming to take me into his arms. “The last party the demons had, I almost died.”

“Ah but look at you now.”

“Besides,” Rexan said, appearing through a portal with my parents, Lorcan, and Pepper. “Your father wants to see you again.”

“Your father is alive?” Brandon’s mother rushed through the crowd that was growing bigger every second.

“He is, but…”

“What?”

“The Winter Court ages humans prematurely,” the Demon King said. “He doesn’t have many years left.”

“Please,” Brandon’s mother said. “Bring him home.”

The Demon King vanished into a portal.