Page 68 of Forever My Siren Luna (The Hidden Cove #2)
Everyone was gathered behind Nilo, staring up at the sky. He had passed Angelina to another person who was in Lycan form. Nilo hadn’t shifted yet, but he looked ready to shift. He looked ready for a fight.
When I looked at where they were staring, I saw Lord Tenebris, soaring away in the dark, smoke-filled sky. He was still clutching his chest, groaning and snarling, but he was flying away. He wasn’t staying for another fight.
The fire left by the dragon and the dead, burning bodies of his army make it hard to see from the ground.
With the thick smoke rising, clouding the sky, the dark fairy lord most likely couldn’t even tell they were down here.
It was like a maze getting around the burning mayhem to where the others were.
“Irrita!” I yelled again, searching the group of women for her.
When Nilo heard me, his face turned into a mask of horror, seeing his Luna’s limp body and leaking blood from her head. He rushed over, taking her from me, carrying her back inside the hive building and laid her on the ground.
Irrita dropped to the other side of Ela, studying her head wound.
Irrita looked exhausted, and the sparks in her magic were flickering as she worked to heal the cut on Ela’s head.
She closed it up, but had to call another fae being over to help with the rest. A nymph girl with hair like flowing water ran her hands over Ela’s body.
A soft blue light began enveloping Ela’s chest and torso.
“She will be alright,” the nymph girl said. “Her and the child are fine. The dark magic was meant to disarm her. Not kill. He drained her magic and vitality.”
My relief was overshadowed by one word. ‘Child’.
“What child?” Nilo asked, seeming as confused as me.
The nymph’s watery blue eyes looked between us, then whispered, “The child she is carrying? She is with child.” When she saw our shock, she said, “Did you not know?”
“No,” I whispered. “No. She was still unmated when I last saw her.”
“Same here,” said Nilo.
Knowing that she was pregnant, we took special care to keep her inside and comfortable while she gained back her vitality.
Her cousin woke up during the time, and took it upon herself to bring water for all of us from some room in the back of the hive.
She even knew where in the building to find clothes and stale food.
She then sat beside Ela’s head, cleaning the blood from her hair.
The flames from the dragon were still blazing, the smoke still thick in the air outside.
It was stifling, but inside we were sheltered from the worst of it.
Staring out the doors, the image outside was pure hell.
Demons and dark fae bodies burning to ash, fueling the flames.
That dragon woman did all that destruction so easily in such a short amount of time.
It’s no wonder she was locked up as she was.
I was staring out the doors at the raging fire, when suddenly, Ela began to scream.
Her eyes flew open, a horrified expression crossing her face, and then she clutched her chest, screaming, her body writhing in pain.
Not just her, but Nilo too. He fell to the ground, growling and groaning while pressing his hands to his chest. His body was buckling in on itself, tears streaming from his eyes.
I looked around, looking for some surviving dark fae being that might be attacking them, but didn’t see one. What was wrong with them?
“Alpha,” Nilo cried, his voice hoarse and broken. “No.”
Ela screamed, tearing at her skin, trying to claw her heart out of her chest. Angelina wasn’t strong enough to stop her so three other women had to help restrain her hand.
“LET ME GO!” She wailed, thrashing about. She broke free from their hold, Val ripping out of her body. None of us would be a match for Val. That didn’t stop me from shifting too and chasing after her as she went sprinting out the doors into the hell that awaited outside.
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Lachlan
We were close. The landscape has changed around us.
It was darker and harsher than before. Jagged rocks erected from the dusty ground made the environment around us unwelcoming and haunted.
All the trees were dead and rotting. The very life of the earth was nonexistent here.
This land was nothing but death, devoid of anything good.
Killian was horrified that our mate came to such a place on her own.
“Do you smell that?” Cedric asked.
“ Aye. It’s the smell of fire and death,” Cherum answered.
We followed Lira’s scent up a hill, seeing smoke thickening the already darkened sky. We saw it further off, but I had mistaken it for a dark cloud.
“ Alpha?” Meldec’s voice echoed in my head. We were closer to the borders between lands now, just several miles north of our warriors where they were standing off with the dark army. “ I could feel Cedric getting closer. Can you hear me?”
“Yeah. I can hear you.”
I had been worried about the upcoming battle, but couldn’t leave the hunt for Lira to check in on them. I sent Percy with the rest of our forces to the border to tell them what was happening. Me, Cedric, Cherum, and King Brennus were the ones to remain.
“ Alpha, something weird just happened here and we got a bit of a situation.”
Killian growled, his focus taken from finding our mate. “ What is it?!” Killian snarled at our Gamma.
“ We’re alright, I think, but the demon forces are dead. They were all just burned to death.”
“What?” Killian froze, turning his head towards the direction of the border. The sky wasn’t so black in that direction, so the billowing smoke lifting into the sky was much more noticeable.
“ Alpha, it was a-”
“ WATCH OUT !” Cherum yelled right then, louder than Mel in the link.
Killian turned just as a dark, demented fairy dropped from the sky, right on top of us. It snarled and yelled, “DEATH TO US BOTH.”
Killian's body was frozen by dark magic, unable to move or react as the monster grabbed my neck and twisted. After a sickening crack, my entire body went numb and my world went black.